Boys Adventure Comics: 'Adam the gardener' newspaper strip reprints

2 February 2022

'Adam the gardener' newspaper strip reprints

I've looked at newspaper strips before (here) and my eye was caught the other day by a vintage collection of 'how to' newspaper strips. A little more digging and I discovered a whole series of books I knew nothing about.

It says here that...Cyril Cowell was born in Canterbury, Kent, in 1888. He was working as an illustrator by 1911. He drew for nursery comics from the 1920s to the 50s, including Fairyland Tales (1924-), Children's Own Sunday Pictorial (1933-1934), Pip and Squeak Annual (1933), Children's Holiday Fun (1937-1940) and Mickey Mouse Weekly (1950s). In the 1940s he drew the weekly gardening strip Adam the Gardener, written by Morley Adams, for the Sunday Express. He also illustrated children's books, including some by Enid Blyton. He specialised in drawing animals and the natural world. He died in Sutton, Surrey, in 1967.

So without further ado here are the 'Adam the gardener' reprint volumes (that I've found so far!) - he's clearly an institution...

Adam the gardener - the year's gardening week by week (1994)