Vic Neill, Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

Vic Neill

cartoonist

Date of Birth: 24-Nov-1941

Date of Death: 01-Jan-0001

Profession: comics artist, cartoonist

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius


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About Vic Neill

  • Vic Neill (24 November 1941 - 24 December 1999) was a British cartoonist who drew for D.C.
  • Thomson and I.P.C.'s comics.
  • His first notable comic work was on Sparky strip Peter Piper.
  • In 1969, he replaced Dudley Dexter Watkins on Topper cover star Mickey the Monkey after Watkins' sudden death.
  • Neill was a big admirer of Watkins' artwork.
  • He made his debut in the Beano with The McTickles in 1971.
  • In 1974, this was replaced by another Scottish-themed strip, Wee Ben Nevis. In 1977, when D.C.
  • Thomson launched their new comic, Plug, a spin-off from The Bash Street Kids, Neill became the regular artist of the title character's strip, which he continued to draw after it merged with The Beezer two years later.
  • In the 1980s, Neill drew a lot of material for I.P.C.
  • Magazines.
  • This included strips such as Top of the Class in Buster comic and Spare-Part Kit in Whoopee.
  • His final strip for them, Nightmare on Erm Street, appeared in Buster in 1990.Returning to the Beano in the late 1980s, he took over The Germs from David Sutherland.
  • Neill then started drawing Billy Whizz in 1992, and became the strip's regular artist the following year when the Beano switched to full-colour printing.
  • While initially drawing the character in a loosely comparable style to David Parkins and Trevor Metcalfe when they shared the workload, once he was established as main artist he began making incremental changes to Billy's appearance.
  • Most notably, Billy had always had two long hairs on the top of his head, but in the 9 July 1994 issue of the comic his hair fused into a lightning flash, and his head shape was also changed from oval to round.
  • In the Beano's 1997 reader vote, Neill drew Tim Traveller, the boy with the time-travelling bike.
  • Tim won the poll, along with Crazy for Daisy and went on to become a regular in the comic. He continued drawing for the Beano until his death in December 1999.
  • Billy Whizz was taken over by Graeme Hall, with Keith Reynolds becoming his replacement on Tim Traveller, but The Germs ended.
  • A number of his Billy Whizz strips were later reprinted in the Beano in 2008-2009.

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