#william grange

[theartofthecover]

The Beano/2000 AD: Billy the Cat and Judge Hershey commission (2015)

Art by: Colin MacNeil

[edorazzi]

The Beano comic: The General and the Cat.

Alfie "General Jumbo" Johnson and William "Billy the Cat" Grange from the 2008 "The General" crossover (where Alfie tried to kill Billy quite violently several times).

"Alfie Johnson was a boy who served as "general" to a remote control model army, navy and air force created by scientist Professor Carter. He appeared in Nutty and Buddy in the early 1980s, drawn by Rothesay-based Sandy Calder, and later in the Beano. The Buddy version called him Jimmy instead of Alfie."

"Billy the Cat (later Billy the Cat and Katie) was a comic strip in The Beano. The strip featured William Grange, later joined by his cousin Kathleen, alias Billy the Cat and Katie. Both were acrobatic crime fighters who helped the police to solve crime and catch crooks in the town of Burnham. They wore "cat-suits" in order to conceal their true identities."

Slipping the Wikipedia descriptions in there because I doubt anyone remembers these guys or even knew about them in the first place. But man, they were the coolest! Their comic strips were the parts I looked forward to most in the Beano when I was a kid.

Excuse my weird proportions and that Alfie's back is probably twice as long as it should be. Billy's probably a bit curvier than is normal for a boy but I'm still getting the hang of proper anatomy.

General Jumbo/Billy the Cat (c) The Beano.

i'm not even expecting any notes on this because no one remembers these two sob sob