John Miles ☜ 

John Miles was a British cartoonist, best-known for his pantomime comic strip 'Perkins' (1968-1980). He launched a pantomime strip about a bald man with a mustache in the London Sunday Times on 14 April 1968. The strip was initially called 'Cicero', but was later renamed to 'Perkins'. It later moved to the Daily Express and the Hampstead & Highgate Express, while it was syndicated internationally through the Register & Tribune Syndicate in the USA from December 1968. After creating more than 4,000 'Perkins' strips, Miles called it quits in 1980. Four book collections of the strip were published. Other syndicated features by Miles were 'MicroMouse', 'Rumpuss', 'Depussy' and 'Figures of Speech' (1980-1992), while the artist furthermore worked as a cartoonist for papers and magazines like She Magazine, Daily Mirror, Punch, Dandy, Woman's Realm, Radio Times, Sunday Times and the Daily Express Miles has also painted portraits, designed posters and brochures, and worked as a toy designer. He won a prize for his cartoons at the Montreal Salon of Cartoons in 1972. He passed away in Bath in 1998.

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