Fatty Fudge


Fatty Fudge is a British comics character who is most associated with the British comics magazine The Beano. He was originally a supporting character in Minnie the Minx by Leo Baxendale, but eventually received his own spin-off comic.

Character

As his name suggests, Fatty Fudge is an obese boy with an addiction to unhealthy food, particularly confectionery. He is very greedy and would do anything for food, which Minnie often uses to her advantage. He is largely confined to supporting roles in the Minnie the Minx cartoon strip in which, alongside Minnie's other rival Soppy Susan, he is usually the butt of Minnie's pranks, although his services are occasionally engaged by Minnie for the furtherance of her schemes. His real name is Frederick James Fudge.

Family

He has a son named Frederick Fudge Jr.

In other media

Fatty appears in "Jelly Babies" in The Beano Videostars, voiced by Enn Reitel.

Spin-off

From 1989–1991, however, Fatty had his own spin-off strip devoted entirely to the parodying of famous films. Examples of this include Ghost Burgers, Toast Busters, You only eat Rice, Sleeping Fatty, Frankfurterstein, Fishfinger, Live and Let Diet, The Incredible Bulk, 2001: A Space Obesity, and 20,000 Leeks Under the Sea. He also appeared in a parody of the British quiz show Bob's Full House, called "Slob's Full Tum", where contestants had to eat as much as they could and whoever got a full tum in the quickest time was the winner. The game show was hosted by "Slob Monkhouse", again a parody of the original host name Bob Monkhouse. These strips were all drawn by Jim Petrie, the Minnie the Minx artist at that time.
The strip reappeared in Issue 3616, dated 17 December 2011, it was so former artist Jim Petrie could get a proper retirement. The comic asked for ideas for the strip on Beano.com. In the end, the winning idea was "The Tummy Returns", suggested by William Clyde, this appeared in the comic. Other suggestions that were considered good by Petrie included: "Iron Man", "A-lard-in", "Harry Scoffer and the order on Phoenix Street", all from Harry Rickard, "Currynation Street" and "The Fat in the Hat", both by Oliver Forde.