Follyfoot - Fire in the Stables (TWO pages) (Originals)

TWO PAGE COMPLETE EPISODE of Follyfoot.

Artist: Stanley Houghton
Medium: Pen & Ink Washes on Board
Size: 12" x 16" (310mm x 410mm)
Date: 1974
Code: HoughtonFolly20-20

These are the unique original Pen & Ink Wash by Stanley Houghton.

The former Rob Riley artist Stanley Houghton brought his style to bear on several later episodes of the Follyfoot serial in Look-in. This example is from 1974.

Follyfoot was a co-production between the UK and a German production company. It was originally broadcast between 1971 and 1973. The basis of the series was that Follyfoot Farm looked after retired or hurt animals and was partially staffed by people who had been in some sort of trouble.

It had plenty to say about animal welfare and its target audience was more teenage than young girls going through their pony phase. There are two speech bubbles missing from the 6th panel on the first page.

First published in Look-in in 1974.

• Artist Biography
  Stanley Houghton; UK
  Stanley Houghton was one of the comic artists who drew for the British comic magazine All Girl Comics in the 1950s. Girl was a sister publication to Eagle, published by Hulton Press from 1951 until 1960, taken over by Longacre and then by IPC Magazines before being subsumed by Princess in October 1964.
  
  In the 1960s Houghton drew for Look and Learn magazine ('Rob Riley') and for the British girl's comic June, including the cleverly named comic strip 'Pony Tales'.
  
  Some of the stories and comics were also collected in bound Girl Annual albums. Stanley Houghton drew 'Belle of the Ballet' (written by George Beardmore), among other stories.