The Gambols
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The Gambols is a British
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

 comic strip
Comic strip
A comic strip is a sequence of drawings arranged in interrelated panels to display brief humor or form a narrative, often serialized, with text in balloons and captions....

 created by Barry Appleby
Barry Appleby
Barry Appleby was a British cartoonist famous for creating The Gambols for the Daily Express. The strip premiered on March 16, 1950. The script was written by his wife Dobs, and was based on their own lives....

 in 1950 which was originally published in the Daily Express
Daily Express
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and is now seen in the Mail on Sunday
Daily Mail
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.

The two central characters are George and Gaye Gambol, a happily married, suburban, middle class couple. George is the main breadwinner while Gaye is primarily a housewife, but she does occasionally take on part-time office jobs.

The stories revolve around the Gambols' everyday life, in particular Gaye's passion for shopping and George's attempts at home improvements
Do it yourself
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. The couple is childless but, at least once a year, they have their nephew and niece, Flivver and Miggy, stay with them.

Most of the Gambols strips were three or four panels
Panel (comic strips)
A panel is an individual frame, or single drawing, in the multiple-panel sequence of a comic strip or comic book. A panel consists of a single drawing depicting a frozen moment....

 long; the Sunday Express, however, published longer strips as it was assumed that people had more time to read a paper on a Sunday. Some of the strips also appeared in colour.

From the 1960s, Appleby's wife Dobs (Doris) was credited alongside him. After Dobs' death in 1985, Appleby continued with the strip alone until his own death in 1996. The strip was then taken over by Roger Mahoney until it moved from the Daily Express to the Mail on Sunday in 1999 http://opal.kent.ac.uk/cartoonx-cgi/artist.py?id=548.

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