Follow the adventures of Zitty Ben from the original Smash Hits 80s music magazine and Strange Tails from a music paper (click on the cartoons for a larger image)
Too spotty to die
Monday, 8 June 2015
Zitty Ben the adventures begin...
Click the Blog Archive link on the right panel to see all the cartoons..but hey you new that right
Way back in 1980 as a young cartoonist and working for the music paper Smash Hits I created a cartoon strip called Strange Tales from a Music Paper. It began as a story of the staff of the magazine then I brought in a character called Zitty Ben, a spotty youth who wanted to make something of his life. At first I was only going to let the cartoon run for a few strips but when I was going to kill him off and do other stuff I got a ton of fan mail demanding that Zitty was not killed off and so Zitty was to carry on for the rest of the life of the cartoon strip. 35 years later this adventure continues with the help of Brian McCloskey who enabled me to get back all the original cartoons when he published his fantastic blog Like Punk Never Happened. And so the adventure continues...
Way back in 1980 as a young cartoonist and working for the music paper Smash Hits I created a cartoon strip called Strange Tales from a Music Paper. It began as a story of the staff of the magazine then I brought in a character called Zitty Ben, a spotty youth who wanted to make something of his life. At first I was only going to let the cartoon run for a few strips but when I was going to kill him off and do other stuff I got a ton of fan mail demanding that Zitty was not killed off and so Zitty was to carry on for the rest of the life of the cartoon strip. 35 years later this adventure continues with the help of Brian McCloskey who enabled me to get back all the original cartoons when he published his fantastic blog Like Punk Never Happened. And so the adventure continues...
ReplyDeleteYay! I remember Zitty Ben :) one of my fave bits of Smash Hits. Looking forward to reading all these again x
ReplyDeleteGlad to hear from a Zitty fan it's been a while 😀
DeleteAh, Zitty Ben. How could I forget. Absolutely loved the strip.
ReplyDeleteZitty says hi and so does pigg strangeways 😀
DeleteGreat memories Mark, thanks a lot 🙏
ReplyDeleteGlad you liked him zitty says hi
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