Hugh McClelland was a cartoonist who headed the cartoon department of the Daily Mirror in the UK.

In 1937, he introduced his wild Western comic strip Beelzebub Jones

Beelzebub Jones

Beelzebub Jones was a UK newspaper comic strip created by cartoonist Hugh McClelland.-Characters and story:The wild Western strip ran from December 28, 1937 to December 28, 1945 in the Daily Mirror newspaper...

in the pages of the Daily Mirror. After taking over as cartoon chief at the Mirror in 1945, he dropped Beelzebub Jones and moved on to a variety of new strips, including Dan Doofer, Sunshine Falls and Jimpy.

Drawing for Sketch

In 1952, he exited the Mirror for the tabloid Daily Sketch

Daily Sketch

The Daily Sketch was a British national tabloid newspaper, founded in Manchester in 1909 by Sir Edward Hulton.It was bought in 1920 by Lord Rothermere's Daily Mirror Newspapers but in 1925 Rothermere offloaded it to William and Gomer Berry The Daily Sketch was a British national tabloid newspaper,...

. He drew Pip Squeak and Wilfred until 1956 when he left Selsey and emigrated with his family to Canada. He launched his last strip, Jimmy Gimmicks in 1957, but it lasted only two months.

McClelland had a working method that expedited his production. He would pencil 20 weeks of strips at one session, writing dialogue as he progressed and then ink these in outline. Lastly, he would go back and fill in the blacks.