Finally Fridays just aren’t the same around here anymore. Anyone have any updates from Malta? Really hoping all is well, but starting to fear that may not be the case.
Funny how when they always misspell your name when writing something good about you, but seem to spell your name correctly when publishing the Police Arrest Reports.
Today, 10 March 2023, marks the fiftieth anniversary of the publication date of the first issue of Shiver and Shake. I think I have mentioned Shiver and Shake before when I have written about UK comics such as Buster which included a strip called “Buster – Son of Andy Capp”.
I was already reading The Beano, The Dandy and Whizzer and Chips among other comics when Shiver and Shake began. I soon started reading Shiver and Shake as well as Whizzer and Chips. Both comics used the format of a 2-in-1 comic with Chips inside Whizzer and Shake inside Shiver. In the case of Shiver and Shake, the names were taken from their star characters just as Buster was taken from a character originally billed as “Buster – Son of Andy Capp”. Shiver was a ghost who starred in a strip called “The Duke’s Spook” and Shake was an elephant whose strip was simply called “Shake”. The most successful Shiver and Shake characters were Frankie Stein – who was a revival of a character from the 1964-8 comic Wham – and Sweeney Toddler who was a new character. Both characters would go on to appear in Buster.
Frankie Stein continued in Whoopee! after Shiver and Shake became part of Whoopee and he would also appear in the 1975-6 comic Monster Fun which would later become part of Buster. Sweeney Toddler also continued in Whoopee! and became the front page character then Whoopee! merged with Whizzer and Chips and Sweeney Toddler continued as front page character in Whizzer and Chips. He would later appear with other Whizzer and Chips characters in Buster from 1990 to the beginning of 2000;
Templo S.U.D. over 1 year ago
What, not N.D. Carp?
rekam Premium Member over 1 year ago
His 15 minutes of fame gone in a flash.
ronaldspence over 1 year ago
nice to see the pot again! Something is fishy Andy…
DorothyGlenn Premium Member over 1 year ago
At least they didn’t reverse the a and r.
seanfear over 1 year ago
tsk tsk tsk – how awful, Carp …uhh Capp…
Imagine over 1 year ago
No need to carp on about it.
Botulism Bob over 1 year ago
At least they spelled the word ‘cap’ correctly.
Little Caesar over 1 year ago
Count Olaf Premium Member over 1 year ago
Nice to know. The Count’s beloved Cincinnati Bengals could use another linebacker. And Happy Norris’s Birthday to All! Dilly! Dilly!
Gandalf over 1 year ago
Carp’s a real surname?
MY DOG IS MY CO PILOT over 1 year ago
Sounds Fishy
buer over 1 year ago
Since Afficionado left I can’t tell anymore whether strips such as this one are funny or not.
The Orange Mailman over 1 year ago
Infamous and notorious are desirable qualities for some.
Judy Hendrickson [Unnamed Reader - 852856] over 1 year ago
Figures
Frank Burns Eats Worms over 1 year ago
I’ve yet to see Andy’s name misspelled quite to this scale.
Durak Premium Member over 1 year ago
Carp. Because goComics won’t let them spell it the other way. R before A.
MuddyUSA Premium Member over 1 year ago
Andy Carp…indeed!
bnz over 1 year ago
Finally Fridays just aren’t the same around here anymore. Anyone have any updates from Malta? Really hoping all is well, but starting to fear that may not be the case.
Linguist over 1 year ago
Funny how when they always misspell your name when writing something good about you, but seem to spell your name correctly when publishing the Police Arrest Reports.
Calvinist1966 over 1 year ago
Today, 10 March 2023, marks the fiftieth anniversary of the publication date of the first issue of Shiver and Shake. I think I have mentioned Shiver and Shake before when I have written about UK comics such as Buster which included a strip called “Buster – Son of Andy Capp”.
I was already reading The Beano, The Dandy and Whizzer and Chips among other comics when Shiver and Shake began. I soon started reading Shiver and Shake as well as Whizzer and Chips. Both comics used the format of a 2-in-1 comic with Chips inside Whizzer and Shake inside Shiver. In the case of Shiver and Shake, the names were taken from their star characters just as Buster was taken from a character originally billed as “Buster – Son of Andy Capp”. Shiver was a ghost who starred in a strip called “The Duke’s Spook” and Shake was an elephant whose strip was simply called “Shake”. The most successful Shiver and Shake characters were Frankie Stein – who was a revival of a character from the 1964-8 comic Wham – and Sweeney Toddler who was a new character. Both characters would go on to appear in Buster.
Frankie Stein continued in Whoopee! after Shiver and Shake became part of Whoopee and he would also appear in the 1975-6 comic Monster Fun which would later become part of Buster. Sweeney Toddler also continued in Whoopee! and became the front page character then Whoopee! merged with Whizzer and Chips and Sweeney Toddler continued as front page character in Whizzer and Chips. He would later appear with other Whizzer and Chips characters in Buster from 1990 to the beginning of 2000;
one more ole man over 1 year ago
Referring to frame 3, would that be a ‘pot shot’
cuzinron47 over 1 year ago
They did that to protect you identity, not that every doesn’t know anyway.
We has seen the enemy over 1 year ago
Something fishy with that report
kathleenhicks62 over 1 year ago
He is a carp alright.
tad1 over 1 year ago
That sounds fishy. (Yeah, yeah, I know, other people have posted something similar.)
Khatkhattu Premium Member over 1 year ago
They must have mistaken Andy for that fishy fellow, Clumsy, you know, the one who lives in BC.
Angry Indeed Premium Member over 1 year ago
Nothing takes the fame out of infamous like a misspelled name!
Dragoncat over 1 year ago
What a shame, Andy… Now they’ll never know it was you.
kenshively over 1 year ago
Well at least they didn’t spell it Andy Crap.