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Hugh McNeill - Original Mid 20th Century Graphite Drawing. Harold Hare first appeared as a background character in a text story written by George E. Rochester for the Knockout Fun Book 1946. The following year, Harold starred in his first solo story and, another year later, Hugh McNeill took over the illustrations. It took McNeill's particular brand of humour to bring Harold truly to life and he was to be one of the jewels of the nursery comics crown for the next thirty years, spinning off into a newspaper strip in 1957 and into his own title in 1959. Unsigned. In fine condition.Hugh McNeill was one of the major contributors to British comics who helped change the face of British comics in the 1940s. He had learned his trade via Kayebon Studios where he was apprenticed at the age of 16, and evening classes at the Manchester School of Art. McNeill had already shown a talent for drawing at school, producing pictures of teachers, pupils and animals to entertain his classmates; before long he spread his wings to local church magazines and became the official cartoonist for the Manchester City Boxing Club, producing a booklet of cartoons for sale at boxing matches. McNeill was present in the first issue of The Beano (30 July 1938) and after the war McNeill began drawing adventure strips.
