Frank Dickens

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Frank Dickens
Born
Frank William Huline-Dickens

(1931-12-09)9 December 1931
Hornsey, London, England
Died8 July 2016(2016-07-08) (aged 84)
Known forCartoons
Notable workBristow

Frank William Huline-Dickens (9 December 1931 – 8 July 2016) was a British cartoonist, best known for his strip Bristow, which ran for 51 years in the Evening Standard and was syndicated internationally.[1][2] According to Guinness World Records, Bristow was the longest running daily cartoon strip by a single author. The character Bristow is even one year older than that, as he debuted in Dickens' older series Oddbod in The Sunday Times in 1960. Due to his popularity, he received his own spin-off series soon afterwards.[3] Dickens broke the original record held by Marc Sleen, whose The Adventures of Nero was drawn for 45 years without any assistance.[4][5] However, even Dickens' record has been broken in his turn by Jim Russell, whose series The Potts ran for 62 years.[4][6][3] Dickens received eight awards for "Strip Cartoonist of the Year" from the Cartoonists' Club of Great Britain.

  1. ^ Angus Mcgill, "Frank Dickens Celebrates 10,000 Bristow Strips", Evening Standard, 25 July 1997, p. 22.
  2. ^ "Goodbye Bristow". Evening Standard. London. 11 April 2001. Retrieved 5 October 2008.[dead link]
  3. ^ a b "Frank Dickens". Archived from the original on 18 September 2016. Retrieved 28 August 2015.
  4. ^ a b "Marc Sleen". Archived from the original on 22 April 2016. Retrieved 17 September 2016.
  5. ^ Magnussen, Anne; Christiansen, Hans-Christian (2000). Comics & Culture: Analytical and Theoretical Approaches to Comics. Museum Tusculanum Press. ISBN 9788772895802.
  6. ^ "Longest running cartoon strip by a single artist". Archived from the original on 27 September 2016. Retrieved 17 September 2016.