Pip Squeak & Wilfield Daily Mirror Pillar Box Old Art Illustrator Card

CHAU4032  A vintage 7" x 5" Daily Mirror cartoon card souvenir published as a plain back greeting card format which is undated but was also known as the Wilfredian League of Gugnuncs and began in 1919 - It is outstanding condition.

Pip, Squeak and Wilfred was a British strip cartoon published in the Daily Mirror from 1919 to 1956 (with a break c. 19401950), as well as the Sunday Pictorial in the early years. It was conceived by Bertram Lamb, who took the role of Uncle Dick, signing himself (B.J.L.) in an early book, and was drawn until c. 1939 by Austin Bowen Payne, who always signed as A. B. Payne. It concerned the adventures of an orphaned family of animals. Pip, who assumed the father role, was a dog, whilst the 'mother', Squeak, was a penguin. Wilfred was the 'young son' and was a rabbit with very long ears.