The Perishers his bathtime struggles with Wellington usually turn into epic battles. Boot's favourite food appears to be links of sausages, and his attempts to consume these in advance of Wellington provide the basis of many episodes. Boot was originally drawn with a short tail (on one occasion he met a bob-tailed sheepdog, and on hearing the name decided to call his own tail Fred), but Maurice Dodd later discovered that real Old English Sheepdogs' tails are docked, and so over the course of several years Collins drew his tail shorter and shorter until it vanished altogether – Boot still appears completely
The Cartoon History of the Universe also to read the primary sources. Gonick's work is not the first comic history in English: an early series of comic histories was published in Victorian England: "Comic History of England" (1847–48) and "Comic History of Rome" (1852), by author Gilbert Abbott à Beckett, illustrator John Leech. Beginning with its original comic book "Volume 1" in 1977, the complete series covers world history through 2008. The Cartoon History of the Universe The Cartoon History of the Universe is a book series about the history of the world. It is written and illustrated by American cartoonist, professor, and mathematician Larry Gonick,