[West Ender]

Ooh, nasty old Rupert but that's not a golliwog in the picture, it's a black child. I suppose we were so insular in those days we didn't really know black people from Martians and I think the intention was innocent enough in its way. We knew no better.

Yes I know there were humans, Jambutty, I remember quite a lot of girl guides and scouts too but Rupert's contemporaries were animals. I used to look forward to a Rupert Annual every Christmas and I always tried, and failed, to do the origami thing that was always in the middle. I particularly remember one that was supposed to be a stork-like bird that flapped its wings. My effort looked more like a hybrid duck that had been badly mauled before rigor mortis set in.