Desperate for content, they asked a lowly graphics editor to develop a series of single panel comics to fill some space on page two - thereby permitting other editors to spend more time sitting on patios drinking.

To everyone's surprise this little bit of filler was actually very funny. And the series was extended to a daily feature when the paper resumed its regular publishing schedule that September.

It didn't take long for Horovitz to become a daily addiction at Western. And over the course of the next two years, hundreds of comics graced page 2 of the paper.

So how popular was it? Well as the strip was coming to it's natural end due to the author's impending graduation, three anthologies were produced - selling over 5000 copies in and around London.

Not bad for a little comic that started started as a bit of summertime fluff.

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