Ken Reid (December 18, 1919 – February 2, 1987) was a British comic artist and writer, best known as the co-creator of Roger the Dodger and Jonah for The Beano and Faceache for Jet (later appeared in Buster).
[1] He set himself up in a studio as a commercial artist, with little success until his father offered to act as his agent, and bluffed his way into an interview with the art editor of the Manchester Evening News.
[1] After a brief period contributing to Comic Cuts in the late 1940s, Reid proposed a full colour strip called Zooville to the Eagle.
He began to explore his interests in "comic horror" and gruesome imagery, which would characterize the latter part of his career, with Frankie Stein and The Nervs, the latter of which he took over from Baxendale.
One episode, in which Davy was dared to resurrect Frankenstein's monster, was too gruesome for the editors and eventually saw print in the UK small press magazine Weird Fantasy, published by David Britton, in 1969.
)[5][1] Reid's work on The Nervs in 1968–1969 turned it into an extremely surreal, even visceral, strip, achieving a rare level of hilarity and bawdiness.
[1] On 2 February 1987, while drawing a page of Faceache at his home in Pendlebury, Greater Manchester, Reid suffered a stroke and died in hospital.