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
Philippines Daily Express Philippines Daily Express The Philippines Daily Express, or commonly known as Daily Express and Sunday Express (every Sunday), was a newspaper in the Philippines. It was better known for circulating news articles related to then-President Ferdinand Marcos during the time of his regime. It was founded on May 9, 1972, by businessman Roberto Benedicto. The newspaper was re-opened few days after Marcos declared martial law wherein most media and newspaper outlets who were critical against the latter were closed its operations and took over by the military. Benedicto assigned Enrique Romualdez, a relative of first lady Imelda Marcos, as chief