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 (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",