Paddy Brennan

Paddy Brennan is also a successful Irish jump jockey.

Paddy Brennan is an Irish artist who worked mainly in the UK, mainly for D. C. Thomson & Co. Ltd, illustrating adventure strips for comics such as The Dandy, The Beano, Topper, Beezer and Judy as well as the People's Journal.

Brennan had his first artwork published in the one-off Magno Comic in 1946, published by International Publications in Glasgow and worked for other minor publishers before beginning work for D.C. Thomson in 1949.

From 1951 onwards Brennan revived many Dudley D. Watkins adventure series such as Jack Flash and the Terrible Twins, The Shipwrecked Circus and Young Drake in addition to producing dozens of stories in various genres ranging from historic (The Galloping Glory Boys) and nautical to Western (Crackaway Jack).

• Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves (People's Journal, The Dandy)
• Crackaway Jack (The Dandy)
• Flip McCoy - the Flying Boy (Topper)
• The Galloping Glory Boys (The Dandy)
• General Jumbo (The Beano)
• Iron Hand (Cracker)
• Jack Flash and the Terrible Twins (The Beano)
• Rusty (The Dandy)
• The Shipwrecked Circus (The Beano)
• The Showboat Circus (Beezer)
• Sinbad the Sailor (The Beano)
• The Whizzers from Ozz (Topper)

• Paddy Brennan page at Lambiek