Paddy Brennan

Paddy Brennan (born 1930) was an Irish comics artist who worked mainly in the UK for D.C. Thomson. He was a freelancer, who typically worked for six months of the year in London, and six months of the year in Dublin. Brennan's first published work was Jeff Collins-Crime Reporter in the one-off title Magno Comic in 1946, and more work for small publishers followed. By 1949 however, he had begun his association with D.C. Thomson, which lasted into the 1980s. He worked on titles including Beano, Dandy, Suzy, Cracker, Beezer, Topper, Bunty and Buddy. Strips he worked on included General Jumbo, Crackaway Jack, Iron Hand, The Whizzers from Ozz, Sinbad the Sailor, The Shipwrecked Circus, Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, Jack Flash, Robin Hood, Jimmy and His Magic Patch, Sandra of the Secret Ballet, The Galloping Glory Boys and Flip McCoy-the Flying Boy.