The Trouble with Mr Doodle (Ch4)
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Doodling at work made Roger Hargreaves a multi-millionaire. The advertising executive drew cartoon characters in idle moments, which evolved into the Mr Men — Mr Tickle, Mr Greedy and many more.
But Hargreaves never thought to create Mr Doodle. That manic persona sprang from the perfervid brain of art student Sam Cox, who had been doodling obsessively throughout his teens, up to 15 hours a day.
Mr Doodle, though he looked like a bundle of fun in his white suit and hat covered in squiggles, was not the benign Mr Man character he seemed at first.
