Great British Comics

Peter Stanbury designed and co-wrote Great British Comics: Celebrating a Century of Ripping Yarns and Wizard Wheezes with Paul Gravett for UK publisher, Aurum Press. Korky the Cat was chosen for the front cover of the book as sole representative being the epitome of cheeky mischief and British comics fun. So many books about comics attempt to present a pantheon of characters that bewilders the reader. Korky was also thought to have the widest appeal, being a cat did not refer to any specific gender or social background, even though he was not a modern character. Korky the Cat has frolicked on the cover of the D C Thomson’s weekly, The Dandy since it began in 1937.