Bully Beef and Chips

Bully Beef and Chips was a British comic strip, created by Jimmy Hughes. It first appeared in 1967 in the British comics magazine The Dandy.

Bully Beef and Chips
Comic strip character(s) from The Dandy
Publication information
Creator(s)Jimmy Hughes
Other contributorsGordon Bell
Sid Burgon
First appearanceIssue
(1967)
Also appeared inThe Dandy Annual
The Beano Annual
Dandy Xtreme
The Beano
Characters
Regular charactersBully Beef, Chips

Concept

The strip told the story of two warring boys – a tall, ugly thug called Bully Beef and a softer, more cunning boy called Chips. The name "Bully Beef and Chips" comes from a quickly-prepared meal corned beef and chips with "Bully beef" being a phrase used for "corned beef".

Stories of these two were identically themed – Bully Beef (Beefy) would constantly play violent tricks on Chips, who would then get his climactic revenge in some way right at the end. Originally, Bully Beef's eyes were always covered by his hair, but towards the end of the 1980s they became partly visible, and then entirely visible when original artist Jimmy Hughes retired in 1993 and was replaced by Gordon Bell and later Sid Burgon. Burgon changed the characters' personalities a little, and made Chips just as much of a bully as Beefy at times, occasionally resulting in Beefy coming out on top.

Revivals

It was revived in 2009 in Dandy Xtreme, drawn by Wayne Thompson, but this did not last long. After a redesign, it reappeared, again drawn by Thompson, in May 2012. Beefy had made an appearance in both The Beano and The Beano Annual earlier in 2009 – specifically in a reprint Fred's Bed strip from around 1992, where Fred visited both Beanotown and Dandytown, and Beefy was among several characters he met. The annual appearance was in the Reservoir Dodge story, as one of a gang of villains watching Baby Face Finlayson attempt to drown Roger the Dodger, Walter the Softy, Minnie the Minx, Billy Whizz and Calamity James. The strip also appeared in both the 2011 and 2012 Dandy annuals, the 2011 one drawn by an unknown artist whose style resembled Jimmy Hughes's, and in 2012 drawn by Laura Howell.

Parodies

The strip has been parodied in Viz as Biffa Bacon.

Sources

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