Alf Wit
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Alf Wit is a fictional character
in a defunct comic strip
in the UK
comic
The Beano
, starting in 1947.
Concerning the adventures of a caveman
of the same name, his name being a play on the word halfwit, it is notable for being the first published work of artist Bill Holroyd, who would go on to provide many other strips for D.C. Thomson
comics over the next few decades. However, this particular strip had a surprisingly short lifespan; it is believed that it may have even lasted a mere two issues (issue 306, dated 5 April 1947, and issue 307, dated 19 April, the fortnightly dates due to paper rationing at the time) before it disappeared, the reason being unknown. Several unused strips exist, which remained unseen for many years until ten of them were included in the book The Beano and The Dandy - History Of Fun (ISBN 0-85116-771-3), published on 5 September 2001.
In common with a lot of cartoon representations of prehistoric life, the strip featured humans living side by side with dinosaur
s, when, in actuality, the two species were separated by tens of millions of years.
Fictional character
A character is the representation of a person in a narrative work of art . Derived from the ancient Greek word kharaktêr , the earliest use in English, in this sense, dates from the Restoration, although it became widely used after its appearance in Tom Jones in 1749. From this, the sense of...
in a defunct comic strip
Comic strip
A comic strip is a sequence of drawings arranged in interrelated panels to display brief humor or form a narrative, often serialized, with text in balloons and captions....
in the UK
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
comic
Comic book
A comic book or comicbook is a magazine made up of comics, narrative artwork in the form of separate panels that represent individual scenes, often accompanied by dialog as well as including...
The Beano
The Beano
The Beano is a British children's comic, published by D.C. Thomson & Co and is arguably their most successful.The comic first appeared on 30 July 1938, and was published weekly. During the Second World War,The Beano and The Dandy were published on alternating weeks because of paper and ink...
, starting in 1947.
Concerning the adventures of a caveman
Caveman
A caveman or troglodyte is a stock character based upon widespread concepts of the way in which early prehistoric humans may have looked and behaved...
of the same name, his name being a play on the word halfwit, it is notable for being the first published work of artist Bill Holroyd, who would go on to provide many other strips for D.C. Thomson
D. C. Thomson & Co. Ltd
D. C. Thomson & Co. Ltd, is a publishing company based in Dundee, Scotland, best known for producing The Dundee Courier, The Evening Telegraph, The Sunday Post, Oor Wullie, The Broons, The Beano, The Dandy and Commando comics...
comics over the next few decades. However, this particular strip had a surprisingly short lifespan; it is believed that it may have even lasted a mere two issues (issue 306, dated 5 April 1947, and issue 307, dated 19 April, the fortnightly dates due to paper rationing at the time) before it disappeared, the reason being unknown. Several unused strips exist, which remained unseen for many years until ten of them were included in the book The Beano and The Dandy - History Of Fun (ISBN 0-85116-771-3), published on 5 September 2001.
In common with a lot of cartoon representations of prehistoric life, the strip featured humans living side by side with dinosaur
Dinosaur
Dinosaurs are a diverse group of animals of the clade and superorder Dinosauria. They were the dominant terrestrial vertebrates for over 160 million years, from the late Triassic period until the end of the Cretaceous , when the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event led to the extinction of...
s, when, in actuality, the two species were separated by tens of millions of years.