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
Rupert Bear serif typeface) with a more modern Rupert to tie-in with the CGI-animation "Rupert Bear, Follow the Magic...", began. The Rupert Annual for 1960 contained a story called "Rupert and the Diamond Leaf", in which he visits "Coon Island", whose inhabitants are little "Coons". The Coons previously appeared on the cover of "The New Rupert: The Daily Express Annual, 1954" and in the interior story "Rupert and the Castaway". The first appearance was in the 1946 soft cover summer special "Rupert on Coon Island". Rupert appeared in Paul McCartney's 1984 music video "We All Stand Together"; McCartney also made an animated