The Perishers dog, Boot. In the early days of the strip they lived in an approximately 10-foot (3 m) diameter concrete pipe section in a seemingly abandoned builder's yard. In 1966 he and Boot moved into a small railway station that had been closed by the Beeching Axe, and they have lived there ever since. Wellington takes his nickname from his trademark wellington boots – he cannot afford proper shoes. He named his dog Boot to go with Wellington. Wellington is quite an intellectual and given to philosophical trains of thought. He can also be quite resourceful – he appears to support
The Neighbors (comic strip) a gently humorous reminder of something that has probably happened to his reader will suffice." Clark received the National Cartoonists Society's Newspaper Panel Cartoon Award in 1961. The Neighbors (comic strip) The Neighbors was an American gag-a-day comic strip, created by George Clark which ran from 1939 to 1971. Clark launched "The Neighbors" in 1939 with the Chicago Tribune-New York Daily News Syndicate. Similar to his earlier "Side Glances", it explored subtle aspects of middle-class family humor. He soon added a Sunday strip, "Our Neighbors, the Ripples", a title eventually shortened to "The Ripples". The Sunday strip was dropped in