Bill Mevin - Perishers

Bill Mevin (23 January 1929 - 30 December 2019) was a British comic artist and animator. From the 1950s until deep into the 2000s, he drew various comics in many different styles and genres. He drew he humorous sports comic 'Wee Sporty' (1956-1960) in Express Weekly. From the 1950s until the 1970s, he was most notable for creating comics based on popular TV shows, published in the children's magazines TV Comic, Pippin, Whoopee and Whizzer and Chips. Later in his career, he went into deliberate self parody with 'The Soapremes' (1986-1987) in The Daily Mail, a comic spoofing soap operas and TV characters. Between 1992 and 2005, Mevin became the second and final artist to continue the long-running children's newspaper comic 'The Perishers', also in the Daily Mail.

The Perishers was a long-running British comic strip about a group of neighbourhood children and a dog. It was printed in the Daily Mirror as a daily strip and first appeared on 19 October 1959. For most of its life it was written by Maurice Dodd (25 October 1922 – 31 December 2005), and was drawn by Dennis Collins until his retirement in 1983, after which it was drawn by Dodd and later by Bill Mevin.