George William Wakefield drew 'The Kid' for British comics magazine Film Fun during the 1920s. 'The Kid' was based on a character from the Charlie Chaplin films. In the companion paper Kinema Comic, Wakefield made 'The Funniosities of Fatty Arbuckle' and 'The Screen Screams of Ford Sterling'. In the 1930s, Wakefield began drawing 'Laurel and Hardy' on the front and back cover of Film Fun. Wakefield also drew the cover strip of magazine My Favourite (formerly Comic Life) in 1931, titled 'Molly and the Merry Middies'. Typical of Wakefield's work were the sketchy, simplified backgrounds and the unchanging angle of view. When Wakefield retired in 1938, his son Terence Wakefield continued to draw the strip.
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