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
Bristow (cartoon) Bristow (cartoon) Bristow is a British gag-a-day comic strip created by Frank Dickens about a buying clerk of that name. The series was in continuous publication in the "Aberdeen Press & Journal" in September 1961 until its last appearance in 2012. With over 10,000 strips made over the decades and running for over 51 years. "Bristow" is one of the longest running daily cartoon strips by a single author, according to Guinness World Records. When looking at the character Bristow itself the series is even one year older than that, as Bristow debuted in Dickens' older series "Oddbod" in "The