John Allard

John Allard (born 1928) was a comic strip artist who assisted Steve Dowling on the Daily Mirror newspaper strip Garth from the very beginning, inking and drawing backgrounds, before succeeding Dowling as the strip's main artist from 1968-1971. When Frank Bellamy took over as artist, Allard became one of the strip's writers. He became the Mirror's cartoons editor in 1986, and created the strip Scorer. He retired in 1992.