Tom Paterson

Scottish comic artist

Tom Paterson is a Scottish comic artist who drew characters for Fleetway in 1973–1990, and D.C Thomson from 1986 to 2012. As of 2013, he currently draws strips for Viz.

Taking stylistic inspiration from Leo Baxendale's work on The Bash Street Kids, Paterson's talent as a cartoonist was discovered at the age of sixteen by original Dandy editor Albert Barnes, who was impressed with the cartoon samples Paterson had sent to him. Barnes offered the young artist a chance to collaborate with him on a strip called The Dangerous Dumplings (which would later be retooled as The Doyle Family for the Dandy), which was to become the leading strip of a new comic Barnes was developing, but the project was scrapped when Barnes retired and Paterson was hired to work for IPC after leaving school. When Baxendale left IPC to publish his own work, Paterson took over as artist for several of his strips, including Sweeny Toddler and Grimly Feendish. Many of his comic strips feature a single, striped sock standing upright on the ground that appears once in each story that acts as a trademark.

He is famous for drawing comics such as:

Fleetway

Grimly Feendish from Shiver and Shake ^[1]
Buster from Buster comic
Guy Gorilla from Whizzer and Chips
Horace and Doris from Whizzer and Chips
Strange Hill from Whizzer and Chips
Robert's Robot from Whizzer and Chips
Watford Gapp from Whizzer and Chips
Crow Jak from Buster and Monster Fun
Scooper from Jackpot
Full 'O' Beans from Jackpot
Jake's Seven from Jackpot
The Park from Jackpot
School Belle from School Fun
Team Mates from Wow!
Sweeny Toddler for Whoopee and later Whizzer and Chips

D.C Thomson

The Beano

Calamity James
The Numskulls
Minnie the Minx
Dennis the Menace
Fred's Bed (reprints and new strips)
Bash Street Kids - Singled Out
Roger the Dodger
Billy Whizz (Beano annuals 2008 and 2010)
Ivy the Terrible
Ball Boy
Little Larry

Beezer

The Banana Bunch
Fred's Bed (Beezer and Topper)
Phoot and Mouse
The Numskulls

The Dandy

Beryl the Peril
Bananaman
Brain Duane
Euro School
Fiddle 'o' Diddle
Freddy the Fearless Fly
Hyde & Shriek
Laughing Planet
Mutant Cow
Rasper

Brain Duane

Brain Duane was a comic strip in The Dandy. It was about a nerdy bald inventor whose inventions would always go wrong. It was drawn by Tom Paterson between 1997 and 2005 before it was taken over by Duncan Scott. The strip disappeared when the comic became Dandy Xtreme. He returned in the 2012 Dandy Annual drawn by Steve Beckett. He was one of the characters featured in the PC game, Beanotown Racing.

Other

Viz

Wee Radge Joe
Nash Gordon
Foul-Mouthed Super-Obese Mobility Scooter Woman

Moose Kid Comics

Beelzababy ^[2]

References

^ The Tom Paterson Collection. Oxford: Rebellion Developments. 25 November 2021. ISBN 978-1-78108-940-8.
^ "Artists Moose Kid Comics". Retrieved 30 December 2021.