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 Building, London and "Evening Times" newspapers from 1980 to circa 2000, but has now been converted into flats. The building, the paper and its best remembered editor, Arthur Christiansen (who in reality had already relinquished the role), featured in the British science fiction film "The Day the Earth Caught Fire" (1961), in which actors Edward Judd and Leo McKern have leading roles. The satirical magazine "Private Eye" invariably referred to the building, in the days when it was occupied by the "Daily Express", as 'The Black Lubyanka'. Daily Express Building, London The Daily Express Building (120 Fleet Street) is a Grade II*