Hugh McNeill was the creator of 'Pansy Potter the Strong Man's Daughter'. The strip made its debut in the Christmas edition of Beano in 1938. 'Pansy Potter' ran until the late 1980s, but her corkscrew curls and Popeye arms have been drawn by many different cartoonists who took over from McNeill. The most notable of these successors were Blackaller and Harry Hargreaves.
During the war, Hugh McNeill was assigned duties as cartographer. He traveled around with General Montgomery in his tent, drawing maps. Another duty he was asked to perform was to draw the 'Our Ernie' cartoons, about a typical soldier, named after McNeill's friend Ernest Hamlett. This was a character who was a typical Tommy on active duty. The cartoons were sent home and published in the British press.
Hugh McNeill also drew the comic 'Deed-a-Day Danny' in magazine Knockout, originally created by A.J. Kelly and continued by Ron Smith. Hugh McNeill drew it around 1953, and did a special Coronation comic. In the 1960s, he drew the title comic of the magazine Buster.
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