School Fun

School Fun was a British comic book that ran from the issues dated 15 October 1983 to 26 May 1984, when it merged with Buster. As the name implies, the comic's "gimmick" was that every strip revolved around school.

Its strips included:

*B.Ware Caretaker - a highly antagonistic caretaker, extremely irritated by mess, and trying to prevent schoolchildren's enjoyment at every turn
*Coronation Street School - a class where the pupils resembled popular Coronation Street characters
*Creepy Crawler - a sycophantic Teacher's Pet who managed to irritate, rather than impress his teacher
*E.T.T. - a strip based on the contemporary E.T. movie, involving an alien teacher stranded on Earth and deciding to teach at a local school
*Grange Hill Juniors - a strip containing various "Grange Hill" characters
*Junior Ed
*Schoolditz - a class captured by the Nazis in World War II and trying to escape from a concentration camp
*School Belle - featuring a highly egotistical schoolgirl who over-rated her attractiveness, continually failing to manipulate schoolboys into doing her bidding
*School Team
*Slowcoach (from Whizzer and Chips)
*Softy Sir - featuring a teacher presented as a complete wimp similar to Walter The Softy, whilst his class runs riot around him
*Teachers United - a strip presenting all teachers as members of an extremely organised force bordering on a conspiracy against their schoolchildren, complete with a high-tech underground headquarters accessed via a staff cupboard
*Time Bus - a school bus that travelled through time before each school day
*Walt Teaser - a schoolboy who would make fun at his classmates
*Willy Wonty (added after a vote by readers upon six sample strips)
*Young Arfur - a strip featuring an enterprising Arthur Daley-like character

External links

* [http://www.toonhound.com/schoolfun.htm Toonhound page]