Toby Twirl Tourtel, an assistant editor of the "Daily Express". Tourtel devised Rupert Bear shortly after the end of World War I, in 1920, when the "Daily Express" was in competition with "The Daily Mail" and its then popular comic strip “Teddy Tail” (featuring a mouse called “Teddy Tail”), as well as with the comic strip “Pip, Squeak and Wilfred” (respectively, these are the names of a dog, penguin, and rabbit) in the "Daily Mirror". Each panel of Tourtel's comic strip story was accompanied by a narrative in rhymed verse. These are the very first ("Daily Express", 8 November 1920): The title
Daily Express (Dublin) Daily Express (Dublin) The Daily Express of Dublin (often referred to as the Dublin Daily Express, to distinguish it from the "Daily Express" of London) and the "Daily Express (Malaysia)" was an Irish newspaper published from 1851 to June 1921, and then continued for registration purposes until 1960. It was a unionist newspaper. From 1917, its title was the Daily Express and Irish Daily Mail. In its heyday, it had the highest circulation of any paper in Ireland. In his "Post Famine Ireland" (2006), Desmond Keenan says of the newspaper: In 1858, Karl Marx, writing in the "New York Tribune",