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Miss Rouge

It is unlikely that any cartoon character has managed to say so much in the confines of a standard strip as Miss Rouge. She joins the typing pool in May 1964 and experiences the usual sexist appraisal of those less enlightened times as Bristow gives her the once-over in strip 1033

Strip 1033 was published in the Evening Standard in May 1964 and (redrawn) in Bristow (1966)

Bristow's mission is to torment and terrorise all typists. In Rouge he nearly meets his match but somehow under the onslaught of words he manages to keep his end up. Here's a good example - strip 1259

Strip 1259 was published in the Evening Standard in February 1965

but in the end there is only way to shut her up - strip 1470

Strip 1470 was published in the Evening Standard in October 1965 and in Bristow (1966)

Rouge's mission, like all typists desperate to escape from the pool, is to seek out and marry the most eligible man she can find. In their ways, each succeeds, and Rouge gets her hooks into Atkins of Accounts. She explains how to Bristow in strip 2174

Strip 2174 was published in the Evening Standard in January 1968

Soon afterwards the marriage is blessed with a baby boy, naturally named Robin after the son of the firm's founder. Mrs. Atkins then returns to work in the typing pool but the relationship with her husband becomes a tad strained. Poor old Atkins - if he puts a foot wrong he has to face the awful consequences.

strip 2914

Strip 2914 was published in the Evening Standard in July 1970

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