The John Darling Trivia Teaser was the idea of Gerry Shamray, John Darling’s third and penultimate artist, and Gerry handled that aspect himself. I thought it was a nice solution for the “drop panels” that were sometimes eliminated if newspapers needed space and chose to run only the bottom two rows.
This is one of those you sorta had to be there strips. Back in 1988 at the winter Olympics, a British ski jumper ...