He first appeared in The Daily Mirror (London, England) of Saturday 7 th February 1920: Wilfred did not feature until later in the series. They are very good friends really, although they will argue. I am sure you will love my two pets, Pip, the dog, and Squeak, the penguin. Well, isn’t that simply splendid of him? Now you know why I’m so happy this morning-I’m going to adopt the biggest family of nephews and nieces on record!

So put something in Every Day and call it “The Children’s Mirror.” Now, the Editor of The Daily Mirror came to me yesterday and said: “Uncle Dick, I want all the boys and girls who read my paper to have a little bit of it all for themselves.

Take hold of mother’s hand, or father’s hand, or even the baby’s hand. I can’t shake hands with all of you, so-let’s pretend. Good morning everybody! Let me introduce myself-Uncle Dick-at your service! I will tell you who I am and what I am in a minute, but-let’s get to know each other first.

They first appeared in The Daily Mirror (London, England) of Monday 12 th May 1919: This comic strip was created and written by Bertram John Lamb (1887-1938) under the pseudonym of Uncle Dick, and drawn by Austin Bowen Payne (1876-1956).Īt first, only Pip and Squeak featured in the comic strip. This phrase alludes to Pip, Squeak and Wilfred, a trio of animal characters, respectively a dog, a penguin and a rabbit, featured in a children’s comic strip published in The Daily Mirror (London, England) and in the Sunday Pictorial (London, England) from 1919 to 1940 (a post-WW2 revival never really caught on). The British-English phrase Pip, Squeak and Wilfred (also Pip, Squeak and Wilfrid) denotes a group of three objects or persons.

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