Charles Grigg Charles Grigg Charles Grigg (23 November 1916 – 4 December 2013) was a British comic artist for DC Thomson. He was the artist of "The Dandy" cover strip "Korky the Cat". He also did Desperate Dan after the original artist, Dudley Watkins, died. In "The Topper" comic he drew "Splodge", "Willy Nilly", "Foxy" and "Shorty Shambles". Grigg swiftly became the definitive "Korky the Cat" artist when he took over the artistic duties from James Crighton on the cover of The Dandy in the early 1960s. Immediately making Korky a friendlier looking figure, his covers for the weekly, and the Dandy
Beryl Reid for Yorkshire Television, her co-presenter "Mooncat" being a green, talking, puppet cat. Stephen Boxer was her human co-star. After she left the show it became titled simply "Mooncat and Co". She married twice, but had no children. An authorised biography, "Roll Out the Beryl", was published by Fantom Films on 22 August 2016. Written by Kaye Crawford, it was the first biography to be written of the actress and coincided with the twentieth anniversary of her death. Beryl Reid died on 13 October 1996 from pneumonia and osteoporosis at a South Buckinghamshire hospital following knee surgery. She was 77 years