Tuesday, 17 February 2026

The day SPECKY HECTOR appeared in Battle

Specky Hector was a character I created 40 years ago for a one-off strip in Oink! comic. He also turned up in the background or cameo roles in a couple of my other strips there too. He then made a return in the 1990s in Buster, hosting Specky Hector's History of Comics, a short series that appeared there every few weeks.

Cut to many years later, in 2020, and Rebellion were putting together an all new Battle special. Editor Keith Richardson asked me if I had a humour strip I could contribute and I suggested ol' Specky. I coloured the strip and I was very pround to be part of that excellent publication. 

I thought you might like to see the strip (above). A couple of friends of mine now own the original artwork.   



2 comments:

Squirrelzilla9000 said...

Honestly, I think the History of Comics series from Good Ol’ Specky was a good choice for Buster, especially the fact that it did teach younger readers about the history and origin of some of their favourite comics. (and even some comics they’ve never heard of).

Lew Stringer said...

Thanks. I was always interested in the history of comics when I was a kid so my thoughts were that hopefully some Buster readers of the Nineties would also like to know a bit about comics from before their time.