David Wright's Judy HC

With our trio of Carol Day story books complete, Slingsby Bros, Ink! is pleased to announce the publication of David Wright's Judy, a nearly-forgotten Carol Day precursor strip. As far as we are aware, this is the first printing of Judy since its original publication in Tit-Bits.

Judy is not quite Carol Day, due to weaker plots and cardboard characters, but maintains a strong appeal because of the art and its adventure premise, and it was a great vehicle for Wright's beautiful cheesecake panels.

In our view, it's a minor gem by one of the greatest strip artists to practice the art and is well worth fans' attention.

Tearsheets are not the ideal source for reprinting strips, but original art and proofs are unavailable (as far as we know they are not extant), and we believe the strip is worth preserving in spite of the limitations of our source material.

We have collected the first four Judy stories for this volume and hope you will agree.

Although printed in black and white, the source tearsheets are scanned in full colour to help reflect the original artwork.