He also created three children's animated series for the BBC in the 1980s: The Family-Ness, Jimbo and the Jet-Set and Penny Crayon.
In 1939 he won a scholarship to the city's Moseley School of Art, where he was taught by Norman Pett.
At the age of 15, Maddocks decided to leave school and join the Merchant Navy from 1943 to 1949.
[2][3] After his six years in the Navy, Maddocks set up his own advertising agency, for which he designed cinema posters and wrote western series.
Maddocks' characters tend to have google eyes with splayed out fingers.