Rupert Bear Rupert Bear Rupert Bear is a children's comic strip character created by the English artist Mary Tourtel and first appearing in the "Daily Express" newspaper on 8 November 1920. Rupert's initial purpose was to win sales from the rival "Daily Mail" and "Daily Mirror". In 1935, the mantle of Rupert artist and storyteller was taken over by Alfred Bestall, who was previously an illustrator for "Punch" and other glossy magazines. Bestall proved to be successful in the field of children's literature and worked on Rupert stories and artwork into his 90s. More recently, various other artists and writers have continued
Daily Express Building, Manchester all these features share more in common with a futurist streamline moderne design rather than art deco. Only thirty five years after opening, the building was Grade II* listed on 3 October 1974. The initial clients of the building, the "Daily Express", left Manchester in the late 1980s, possibly because other buildings in the area were in a poor state of repair. However, after the "Daily Express" decided to leave the city, there was no new press which expressed interest in continuing the building's role as a printing centre, so instead this was discontinued; but printing does still continue in