- Black Bob
This article is about the fictional dog. For other meanings see
Black Bob (disambiguation) .Black Bob was the name of a fictional
Border Collie fromSelkirk in southScotland . Black Bob originally appeared as a text story inThe Dandy in issue 280, dated25 November 1944 . Following this he appeared as a picture strip in "The Weekly News" in 1946, which continued until 1967.Drawn by
Jack Prout , the popular sheepdog appeared regularly in The Dandy from his 1944 debut until issue 2122, dated24 July 1982 . Eight Black Bob books were published at infrequent intervals from 1950 to 1965. These volumes' years were 1950, 1951, 1953, 1955, 1957, 1959, 1961 and 1965.Jack Prout was born on14 December 1900 and joined the Scottish publishing firm of D C Thomson as a staff artist on21 June 1937 . He retired on30 June 1968 although his strips were reprinted in The Dandy until 1982. Shortly before his retirement, Prout acquired a black and whiteborder collie . Staff at D C Thomson's presented the artist with a spoof "dog licence", allowing the animal to keep the artist as a pet. The document was "signed" with Black Bob's pawprint. Jack Prout died on27 September 1978 .Black Bob was parodied in a strip in "Viz" comic entitled "Black Bag, the Faithful Border Bin Liner".
External links
* [http://www.proutfamily.co.uk Family history for Jack Prout]
ources
Information provided by the
publisher of The Dandy and the Black Bob books, namelyD. C. Thomson & Co. Ltd as relayed by Jason Swemmer, Pretoria, South Africa.Further biographical information provided by the Juvenile Publications department of D C Thomson in a letter to Bob Richardson, Northolt, London, England.
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