Results tagged “Bunty” from Birmingham Mail - Speech Balloon

My main job, covering the goings on at Birmingham City Council, has delivered a line for the Speech Balloons, but this week it did.

At one of the many events and meetings held for the Tory Party Conference in Birmingham I bumped into Councillor Deirdre Alden - widely tipped to be the next Conservative MP for Edgbaston.

But her day job for many years was writing comics for DC Thomson's pre-teen girls titles like Bunty, Jackie and even photo stories for Blue Jeans.

She wrote for series such as the boarding school adventure the Four Marys and, until recently, was the main writer for a German comic Wendy - a series about a girl and her pony.

It was as her political career grew, she is now chairwoman of Birmingham's official health watchdog committee, that she had to give up the writing.

She said: "It was a good career. I really enjoyed it."