While browsing the internet, I came across a site devoted to my favourite comic, Victor: www.victorhomecomics.co.uk

You can imagine my surprise when I found out that one of the comic's artists whose work I most admired when I as a boy in the Sixties was actually Maltese. This is the information I came across on the site about the artist in question:

"Henricus 'Harry' Farrugia was from Malta. Born 1919, died 1970. He started working in comics for the Amalgamated Press in the late 1940s and was quite a prolific artist for TV Fun, Radio Fun and the war libraries. He seems to have first worked for D.C. Thomson in 1961, drawing the true-life war strips for Victor and then moving on to strip stories with The Purple Trumpet. He kept up a prolific output right up until the time of his death, working for Victor, Hornet, the Fleetway war libraries and some features in Jag, also for Fleetway."

I wonder if any readers, perhaps relatives or friends of Harry Farrugia, could provide me with any information about this artist. Photographs of him would also be most welcome. These would be passed on the website in question, which is very interested to publish any further information as well as images of Farrugia.

Please contact me by e-mail at alexvella@yahoo.com, by phone on 2143-2408 or at home, 164 Eucharistic Congress Road, Mosta, MST 9037.

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