Today in Comics History, October 11: Happy birthday, Dawn French!

Born on this day: actor, comedian, and writer Dawn French (French and Saunders, The Vicar of Dibley, The Comic Strip, The Young Ones, Girls on Top, Psychoville, Murder Most Horrid and more)! Here, Dawn and fellow comic/writer Ben Elton raise money for Comic Relief...in a comic!



from "Comic Relief, Part 8" in The Comic Relief Comic (Fleetway, March 1991), pencils and inks by Steve Yeowell
And here she is in one of my very favorite scenes from The Young Ones.


from The Young Ones "Time," series 2 episode 4 (BBC, 5 June 1984); written by Ben Elton, Rik Mayall and Lise Mayer; directed by Paul Jackson
Happy birthday, Dawn!