Colonel Pewter & Glub (News Chronicle)

[kernelbogey]

Something today triggered a memory of this strip cartoon in the News Chronicle. Colonel Pewter was a stereotypical retired Colonel, with a housekeeper, named Mrs Aspic IIRC, who spoke with a bucolic accent well conveyed in her speech bubbles.

The colonel - more likely his gardener - found a neolithic man in his garden, frozen into a block of ice. After some months of hospitality, Pewter named him Glub and eventually appointed him butler.

The chronicle foled in 1960 but Colonel P and Glub kept me hugely entertained in my early teens. The name of the cartoonisb eludes me for the moment.

Anyone here a former fan?

[Bryn]

Something today triggered a memory of this strip cartoon in the News Chronicle. Colonel Pewter was a stereotypical retired Colonel, with a housekeeper, named Mrs Aspic IIRC, who spoke with a bucolic accent well conveyed in her speech bubbles.

The colonel - more likely his gardener - found a neolithic man in his garden, frozen into a block of ice. After some months of hospitality, Pewter named him Glub and eventually appointed him butler.

The chronicle foled in 1960 but Colonel P and Glub kept me hugely entertained in my early teens. The name of the cartoonisb eludes me for the moment.

Anyone here a former fan?

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[vinteuil]

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... lordy! a memory I had quite mislaid - I now remember him in The Guardian regularly in the 1960s. I loved the cartoons -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Horner_(cartoonist)

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[kernelbogey]

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... lordy! a memory I had quite mislaid - I now remember him in The Guardian regularly in the 1960s. I loved the cartoons -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Horner_(cartoonist)

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Many thanks Vints! I had a quick skim of the Wiki article. Going out to a concert now so will pursue some of the refs tomorrow.