Cheeky Weekly

For the undergarment, see Thong. For the adjective, see Cheeky (disambiguation).

Cheeky Weekly was a British comic book magazine published every Monday by IPC Magazines Ltd.[1] It ran for 117 issues from (issues dates) 22 October 1977 to 2 February 1980,[2] failing to be published for 3 weeks in December 1978 due to an industrial dispute. It merged with stable-mate Whoopee!, initially as a 16-page pull-out section.[1] The title character originated in an earlier comic called Krazy as a character in the strip The Krazy Gang and also the star of the 'Ello, It's Cheeky feature, and proved popular enough to get his own comic, which managed to outlive Krazy itself.[1] The first issue came with a free "Red Jet Rattler" (a build-it-yourself model aeroplane).[1] Its characters and strips included:

  • Cheeky's Week, a comic strip featuring the title character meeting various regular characters with much joke-telling. This strip was drawn by Frank McDiarmid.[3]
  • Lily Pop
  • Posh Claude
  • Walter Wurx
  • Jogging Jeremy
  • Baby Burpo
  • Baker's Boy
  • Sid the Street Sweeper
  • Ursula the Usherette
  1. ^ a b c d Kibble-White, Graham (2005). The Ultimate Book of British Comics. Allison & Busby Limited. ISBN 0-7490-8211-9.
  2. ^ "Cheeky, issue dated 2 February 1980." IPC
  3. ^ Crikey! (11). Sequential Media. {{cite journal}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)