Lord Marmaduke of Bunkerton, or Lord Snooty, is a character in the British comic The Beano and the main character of Lord Snooty and His Pals.
Snooty is an earl and the richest person who lives at Bunkerton Castle in Beanotown, he always barks orders at his butler Parkinson. Snooty often gathers his friends round to have fun.
Physical Appearance[]
Lord Snooty has black hair, and wears a black top hat, a black tuxedo, a yellow vest, blue trousers and brown shoes.
Art and History[]
Snooty made his first appearance in the very first issue of The Beano and was the longest-running character from the pre-Dennis the Menace era of the comic. The initial series of stories was drawn by Dudley D. Watkins. and would continue until June 1949, after which it took a break from the comic until the end of 1950. This second series would run until March 1958. This series was again primarily drawn by Watkins, although Leo Baxendalealso contributed a number of episodes from 1955 to 1956. However, this was immediately followed by a coda titled ''A Funny Thing Happened the Other Day'', drawn by Albert Holroyd, which ran for a further six weeks.
The strip would return the following year for the third (and ultimately longest) series, initially as reprints of earlier stories, but in 1964 Watkins started to draw new episodes, which continued until he was replaced by Robert Nixon in 1968. When Nixon left DC Thomson in 1973, Jimmy Glen took over as artist. A further artist change occurred in 1988, when Ken H. Harrison started drawing the strip. By the beginning of the 1990s, the character was becoming increasingly difficult for Beano readers to relate to and was performing poorly in reader polls. With the comic's staff also increasingly apathetic towards the character by this time, the decision was taken to drop the strip. The final story of the third series appeared in issue 2565 (7th September 1991).
Snooty would return to the comic just over one decade later in one-off strip titled Lord Snooty's Day Out, which appeared in Beano issue 3093 (27th October 2001), again drawn by Harrison.