Mervyn
Johnston, a comics writer and artist
from Belfast, who owns to having been initially influenced
by Leo Baxendale. Mervyn
apparently started his career at Ximoc
in the early 1980's,
and has since produced work for various publishers
including D C
Thompson for whom from 1986 he contributed 'Potty
Inventions' forThe
Topper, and 'The Bad Ladds' for the
The Beezer. Working for Whizzer
and Chips Mervyn worked on 'The Bumpkin
Billionaires', and from 1990-8 he produced 'Crazy Characters' for
Buster. He was also heavily
involved in the finance and production of a short-running
original comic called Fizog
which was launched in December 1994, with the Baxendale
influence he mentions clearly visible in his 'Johnny
Lightfingers' strip. He has since worked for TOXIC
producing material for the jokes page for several
years, and is said to currently be working drawing
'Pig Brother for TOXIC.
An
artwork for a 1990's jokes page ofTOXIC
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