A look at Leslie (Styx) Harding. (mainly including Paws)

The following selection features the work of artist Leslie Harding (who always signed his work as Styx).

We have three Paws strips and a Claws Vs. Caws strip from Whoopee.

here are the stats on Paws.

Comic Title: Paws

Comic: Krazy

First Appearance: Issue 1 (16/10/76)

Final Appearance: 15/4/78

Contined in Whizzer and Chips

First Appearance: 22/4/78

Final Appearance: TBA

Our first strip introduces Paws. Here, the Krazy Gang’s parrot pal, Blue, introducing Paws in No. 1 of Krazy, issue dated 16/10/1976.

While this episode originally appeared in Whizzer and Chips, this is a reprint from the October 1985 issue of the Best of Whizzer and Chips Monthly.

this next Paws strip plays on Hardings' pen name.

Here is a rare time Paws’ artist made an on-page appearance. Here is the Paws strip from Krazy issue dated 22/10/77.

We conclude our look with the feline equivalent that appeared in Whoopee! Claws, this time with his avian adversary, Caws.

Comic title: Claws (later known as Claws Vs. Caws)

Comic: Whoopee!

First Appearance: TBA

Final appearance: sometime after 1981

Today’s strip is from the merry-go-round section (when the strip was on a rotational basis by this time) in the issue dated 19/7/1980.

We will see more of Paws in my look at the Jubilee issue of Krazy (which I will post on the second weekend of June )what used to be the Queens' Birthday long weekend, but has now been moved to October, but it's still the long weekend in some states of Australia, so I'll post tthat then.)

More from the vaults at 5:00.