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The Perishers was a British comic strip about a group of urban children
and a dog. It began in the Daily Mirror in 1958 and was written for most of
its life by Maurice Dodd (October 25, 1922 - December 31, 2005). It was
drawn by Dennis Collins until his retirement in 1983, after which it was
drawn by Dodd and later by Bill Mevin. After Dodd's death the strip
continued with several weeks' backlog of strips and some reprints until
June 10 2006.
Whilst The Perishers have been dismissed by some Americans as nothing more
than a clone of Peanuts , its elements of eccentric British sense of
humour, combined with its detailed art style (in its heyday, Collins
produced some of the most finely-detailed artwork ever seen in a daily
strip), sets it apart.
Many Perishers strips are polyptychs - a single continuous background
image is divided into three or fou
