Fatty Fudge

Fatty Fudge is a British comics character who is most associated with the British comics magazine The Beano. He was originally a supporting character in Minnie the Minx by Leo Baxendale, but eventually received his own spin-off comic.

Fatty Fudge
Comic strip character(s) from The Beano
Publication information
Stars inFatty Fudge (1989-91, 2011)
Minnie the Minx
Creator(s)Jim Petrie
Other contributorsJim Petrie
William Clyde
Current/last artistHarry Rickard
Oliver Forde
First appearanceIssue 1640
(22 December 1973)
Last appearancec. 2011
Also appeared inThe Beano Annual
Minnie the Minx
Main Character
NameFrederick James Fudge
Alias(es)Fatty Fudge
FamilyFatty Fudge Jr. (son)
FriendsMinnie the Minx

Character

As his name suggests, Fatty Fudge is an obese boy with an addiction to unhealthy food, particularly confectionery. He is very greedy and would do anything for food, which Minnie often uses to her advantage. He is largely confined to supporting roles in the Minnie the Minx cartoon strip in which, alongside Minnie's other rival Soppy Susan, he is usually the butt of Minnie's pranks, although his services are occasionally engaged by Minnie for the furtherance of her schemes. His real name is Frederick James Fudge.

Family

He has a son named Frederick Fudge Jr.

In other media

Fatty appears in "Jelly Babies" in The Beano Videostars, voiced by Enn Reitel.

Spin-off

From 1989–1991, however, Fatty had his own spin-off strip devoted entirely to the parodying of famous films. Examples of this include Ghost Burgers, Toast Busters (both puns on Ghostbusters), You only eat Rice (You Only Live Twice), Sleeping Fatty (Sleeping Beauty), Frankfurterstein (Frankenstein), Fishfinger (Goldfinger), Live and Let Diet (Live and Let Die), The Incredible Bulk (The Incredible Hulk), 2001: A Space Obesity (2001: A Space Odyssey), and 20,000 Leeks Under the Sea (20.000 Leagues Under the Sea). He also appeared in a parody of the British quiz show Bob's Full House, called "Slob's Full Tum", where contestants had to eat as much as they could and whoever got a full tum in the quickest time was the winner. The game show was hosted by "Slob Monkhouse", again a parody of the original host name Bob Monkhouse. These strips were all drawn by Jim Petrie, the Minnie the Minx artist at that time.

The strip reappeared in Issue 3616, dated 17 December 2011, it was so former artist Jim Petrie could get a proper retirement. The comic asked for ideas for the strip on Beano.com. In the end, the winning idea was "The Tummy Returns", suggested by William Clyde, this appeared in the comic. Other suggestions that were considered good by Petrie included: "Iron (stomach) Man" (Iron Man), "A-lard-in" (Aladdin), "Harry Scoffer and the order on Phoenix Street" (Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix), all from Harry Rickard, "Currynation Street" (Coronation Street) and "The Fat in the Hat" (The Cat in the Hat), both by Oliver Forde.

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