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Rupert Bear is an English children's comic strip character and franchise created by Herbert Tourtel [1] and illustrated by his wife, the artist Mary Tourtel, first appearing in the Daily Express newspaper on 8 November 1920.
He was originally created over a hundred years ago by Mary Tourtel who lived in Canterbury. Rupert first appeared in the Daily Express on Monday 8 November 1920, in a single frame illustration called the ‘Little Lost Bear’, and continued to run in the paper every day from then on.
Apr 9, 2012 · Rupert Bear started life as a daily comic strip in the newspaper in order to compete with the Daily Mail's Teddy Tail ( first published in 1919 ) and the Daily Mirror's Pip Squeak and Wilfred, Britain's first ever comic strip introduced in 1915.
Jun 12, 2020 · Staying in a hotel on Ivy Lane - now part of the Chaucer Hotel, in March of 1948, Mary collapsed on Canterbury High Street suffering from a brain tumour. She was taken to the Kent and Canterbury ...
Jan 28, 2024 · Rupert started off as a chunky little bear in trousers and eventually he became more humanised; more like a small boy with a bear's head. Four years later, in 1935, at the age of 61, she...
Where it came from Created by Mary Tourtel, Rupert started as a children’s cartoon in the Daily Express newspaper. Rupert and his friends, Bill Badger, Algy Pug and Pong Ping gained a loyal following.
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Her creation, Rupert Bear, was born. Rupert first appeared in the Daily Express on Monday 8 November 1920, in a single frame illustration called the ‘Little Lost Bear’, and continued to run in the paper every day thereafter.
