The Perishers save money. Actually there might be something in that; Wellington (unlike the majority of comic characters) has noticed that he and his friends never seem to get any older. On those rare occasions when he cheers up a small raincloud usually appears to dampen his spirits. An Old English Sheepdog who lives with his boy, Wellington. Boot is a generally affable and mellow character, given to flights of fancy and daydreaming. In this respect, Boot is the UK equivalent of Snoopy from Charles M. Schulz's "Peanuts" strip. Boot is also convinced that he is in fact an 18th-century English lord
Maurice Dodd "The Perishers" to television. Dodd left advertising in 1980 and subsequently wrote a number of children's books. In 1983 Collins retired, leaving Dodd to write and draw "The Perishers" alone until 1992, when Bill Mevin began doing all the art work for the strip. Dodd continued working on the strip until he died, from a brain haemorrhage, in Shepperton on 31 December 2005. Maurice Dodd Maurice Dodd (25 October 1922 – 31 December 2005) was an English writer and cartoonist best known for his years spent working on "The Perishers" comic strip published in the "Daily Mirror". Dodd was born