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 the Peril entitled "What's in Cheryl's hair," a menacing-looking girl with pigtails is seen peeking out. This was labelled Beryl Cole and so is therefore not deemed an official appearance. However, she did make a return digitally via the social networking site Facebook. She was involved in an artist event called "Pass the Peril" in which four different artists were to draw four different strips based on the character and the website. The first was drawn by Steve Beckett and saw Beryl informing her father that her adventures would now continue via Facebook in which she, very much in character, smashed her