Tom Brown's School Days Great Game", the character whom Fraser named Harry Flashman reads "Tom Brown's School Days", which refers to his youth, and its popularity causes him some social troubles. Fraser's Flashman novels also include some other characters from "Tom Brown's School Days", for example George Speedicut and Tom Brown in the book "Flashman's Lady". Flashman also encounters the character of "Scud" East twice, first in "Flashman at the Charge", when both he and East are prisoners of war during the Crimean War, and again in "Flashman in the Great Game", at the Siege of Cawnpore during the Indian Mutiny of 1857. Tom
Tom Thug Tom Thug Tom Thug was a long-running British comic strip, first published in "Oink!" in May 1986, then moved to "Buster". Created by cartoonist Lew Stringer, Tom was encouraged by his skinhead father to be a school bully like he used to be. However, Tom was so incompetent he couldn't even tie the laces of his boots. As the strip progressed, every issue would show Tom's attempts at bullying backfire often with slapstick consequences. The strip proved popular enough to transfer over to "Buster" when "Oink!" folded in 1988. Asked by the editor Allen Cummings to focus the stories on