I realise you’re not generally big followers of British comics, but I need to flag up a notification I received last week of the sad death of Leo Baxendale.
Leo Baxendale was a very important artist who was intimately involved in the changes that happened to the best selling British comic in the 50s. That comic was, of course, the Beano. When Baxendale joined the team in 1953, The Beano was sell…