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
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