![]() ![]() The lovely trio originally lived with a couple of humans who cared for them, Uncle Dick and his maid Angeline. ![]() Some say that he was found in a turnip field, but others (whom I am more inclined to believe because they were the authors) mentioned that Squeak found Wilfred catching butterflies in a clover field and she immediately adopted him because she thought that he was adorable. How Pip and Squeak discovered Wilfred is still a matter of debate. At that time, Pip became the father figure in the strip, and Squeak, with red purse in hand, took the role of the mother. Wilfred was a long-eared rabbit in the toddler stage who could only mutter “gug” and “nunc”. ![]() A year after Pip and Squeak were created Wilfred joined them. ![]() Squeak’s origins are a bit more distant since she hatched as an egg in the coast of South Africa and later ended in the London Zoological Gardens where Uncle Dick heard her speak to a child. Pip was a mongrel dog who was found on the Thames Embankment and sent to a dog’s home where he was bougth for half a crown by Uncle Dick. I’ll get back to him in a second! Pip and Squeak were first presented to the public on May 1919 in the childrens’ section of the Daily Mirror. As I started to read full stories, I realized that I was captivated by the antics of these three characters and the narration of Uncle Dick. There was something magical about the way the characters were drawn that immediately appealed to my inner child. I happened to be present when the museum purchased a set of four original drawings, and I could not get over how charming they were. My first encounter with an adorable trio of anthropomorphic animals called Pip, Squeak and Wilfred was when I stepped through the threshold of the Cartoon Museum while doing a six-months intership with the HLF Comic Creators Project back in 2015. ![]()
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