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London's Cartoon Museum reopens with a fresh look at comic art

Exhibition promises to unearth the forgotten treasures of 20th-century British comics

People probably know Billy Bunter, the Heavyweight Chump of Greyfriars, but how many recall the equally food-obsessed Hungry Horace, a stalwart of the Sparky? We remember Beryl the Peril but what about the even more troublesome Jonah?

“Jonah was on the back page of the Beano for seven or eight years,” said comic expert Steve Marchant. “He was an ugly sailor. Every week he would rock up on to somebody’s boat and the boat would sink, that was the gag. The humour was in how the inevitable happens … terrific stuff.”

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