Another British strip of which I'm enormously fond is the British daily Clive, written by Angus McGill and drawn by Dominic Poelsma. Despite the fact that there were a few book collections, I can't find out much about either, though I think McGill was an essayist and Poelsma illustrated some humorous books. Judging from the copyright date (1977) and the cover copy of Augusta the Great ("first appeared in the London Evening Standard nine years ago"), the strip began in 1968. And here are the first strips: