It occurred to me to try to track down online images of (Clive creators) McGill and Poelsma -- and I had no luck. Since that annoyed me, I thought I'd post this photo, which appeared on the back cover of Augusta the Great, copyright 1977 Beaverbrook Newspapers. I'm guessing the one on the left is McGill.

The Clive strip (see earlier posting), while successful, soon evolved to pay more attention to his little sister, Augusta -- and eventually changed its name to acknowledge the fact. (The "horrible cat" shown here, by the way, was named Crippen [with reference to Hawley Harvey Crippen, put on trial in a media frenzy, accused of [and convicted of and hanged for] murdering his wife]. Don and I named one of our cats Crippen with reference to Clive's Crippen.)

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:

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As I embarked on the project of posting samplings of a variety of strips from days gone by, my primary scanning computer at home decided it belonged primarily to days gone by, as well.

I have a few faint hopes of being able to salvage the thing, but I also have a tendency to try to remain undeterred -- so I'm returning to a Photoshop Elements program with which I am unfamiliar and, so, am even more likely to mess things up. I liked the full Photoshop on the other computer, aged as both the software and hardware were. What I've used today won't let me scan to as fine a level as I was able to scan with my primary computer. Whine, whine, whine.

OK, that said, Boner's Ark by "Addison" began with what you see here. "Addison" is Mort Walker's first name, and he created the strip -- which ran until 2000 (at which point, you'll be glad to learn, it reached shore in safety).