![]() ( which also established the reasons behind the Characters Dislike for Guns) with a new ongoing Daily strip in print being Planned to run at the end of the 2nd Online story arc, King of New York. This was Discussed and the future of the character in print was agreed upon. Having successfully worked in the Media Entertainment industry and Printed Media for over 3 decades ( Including Periods at Disney Warner and Fox ) Huw J believed that the Re Imagined version could easily cross from the Digital, back to the Printed medium, and Ultimately licensing to other media. The Online Strip, was a Successful re- Visiting / Re-Imagineering of the character, Taking him back to the Pre-Steve Dowling Origins and Establishing him in a Historical Setting. Most if not all Garth strips are now owned by Mirror.Īs of Wednesday 13 August 2008, "Garth" has reappeared on the website of the Daily Mirror, drawn by the artist Huw J. 1 featuring Garth as a tribute to the writers and artists who had been involved with the strip. In 1993, Bill Storrie produced perhaps a dozen or so 60-page photocopied magazines titled The Gopherville Argus Special Edition No. Martin Asbury became Garth's artist after Frank Bellamy's death in 1976, drawing the strip and writing many of the stories until its final episode in 1997. Philip Harbottle is a leading Garth expert and collector of the strips, and he wrote several of the stories during the 1990s. ![]() Peter O'Donnell, Jim Edgar and Angus Allan also wrote extensively for the strip during its decades-long existence. ![]() Garth's longevity had been established by Don Freeman, who created almost every basic Garth plot on which the saga was built. After 59 adventures Dowling retired and handed Garth over to Allard, which he carried on until 1971 when Eagle comics' Dan Dare artist, Frank Bellamy, took over the art with Allard writing the scripts. ![]() Dowling and Boshell took on 15-year-old John Allard to work on Garth, who stayed with the strip for its entire lifetime. Dowling wanted to create a British adventure comic strip, and took inspiration from the American comic strips Superman, Flash Gordon and Terry and the Pirates. Steve Dowling and Gordon Boshell were the originators of the Garth character. ![]()
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