Publisher D.C. Thomson & Co.
Creators:
Written by ??
Drawn by Edmundo Fernández Ripoll "Edmond" (Main Artist)
Character Type Human
First Appearance The Hornet #53 (Sept 12th, 1964)
ultimate appearance The Hornet #648 (Mar. 9th.1974)
(last issue of the Hornet)
Series continued in The Hotspur 14th Feb. 1976 (852 - 874) until 17 Jul 76.
Appears in 225 issues
NICK SMITH, the famous international inside-left, had just been
transferred from his old club, Stonebury Arsenal,to Chidsea.
Chidsea were in the doldrums as usual. In the previous four
seasons,they had just missed relegation from the First Division
and, once more, they were in the danger zone. They had some fine
players but had never been able to click as a team. Nick had been
brought fo the club to see if he could inject some life into
the dispirited team.
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Cover The Hornet #53 (Sept 12th, 1964)
The Hornet #53 (Sept 12th, 1964) p. 02
Cover The Hornet #180 (Feb 18th, 1967)
The Hornet #648 (Mar. 9th.1974) pages 26, 27 & 28
Greetings, many thanks for this blog and their inputs, in this case, I think that the drawner was another Ripoll, not Miguel, but Edmundo Fernández Ripoll "Edmond"
ReplyDeleteThank you very much Luis Miguel, for this erudite information. I have modified the data on the blog. Greetings
ReplyDeleteThe artist is not Edmond..., is a british - Years ago I set out to discover the identity of this cartoonist and after much searching I managed to find out his name; he was a British author, but I did not save the details.
ReplyDeleteDefinitely not Edmond - I think this was the Spanish artist Juan Ripoll.
ReplyDeleteCould you please provide some information about Juan Ripoll? I didn't know he existed.
DeleteHi there, as far as I know, there isn't any Spanish artist called Juan Ripoll; he isn't mentioned in Tebeosfera, Wikipedia, Lambiek, and so on. I couldn't find any record about his life or career apart from some mentions of his name in some blogs and websites.
ReplyDeleteI think there are three possibilities; the first one is that Juan Ripoll is an unknown artist for most of us, the second one is that Juan Ripoll is a pen-name of Edmond Fernández Ripoll, and finally the last one is that there was a transcription mistake with the name, for instance, (Edmond as John, remenber John is Juan in Spanish)
Anyway I'd like to know the source of the information about Juan Ripoll
Luis Miguel