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In March 1979, after several phone calls, cartoonist [[Mike Kazybrid|Mychailo Kazybrid]] met up with Mike Priestley and John Hewitt of the [[w:Telegraph & Argus|Bradford Telegraph & Argus]] to pitch a daily comic strip. Though the pitch was rejected, Hewitt was taken by a drawing in Kazybrid's portfolio of his then-two-year-old son, Matthew. If Kazybrid could adapt the drawing into a daily strip, Hewitt would accept it. Kazybrid did so in short order, and the first strip of this new comic, titled ''Matt'', ran in the newspaper on 18th April, 1979. With the strip centred around the existential ponderings of [[Matt]] and his young pals, as well as the bizarre exploits of his quirky bipedal cat, [[Humph]], the influence from ''[[w:Peanuts|Peanuts]]'' was obvious – though just as often, strips would instead facilitate plays on words or absurd slapstick. ''Matt'' ran in the Telegraph & Argus, and later the [[w:Manchester Evening News|Manchester Evening News]], until 1985.<ref>[https://kazybridscharactercreation.blogspot.com/2011/04/blast-from-past-matt-cartoon-strips.html "Blast from the Past: Matt cartoon strips 1979/85" on Mychailo Kazybrid's Character Creation]</ref><ref>[http://mychailokazybrid.blogspot.com/2007/01/early-days.html "The Early Days" on the Humph the Cat Blogspot]</ref>
In 1984, Marvel UK's {{TF|Sheila_Cranna|Sheila Cranna}} accepted Kazybrid's humour strip into ''[[The Transformers]]''. In concession to the book's theme, Kazybrid's characters went on more space adventures with robots than they would in the newspaper. With Humph stepping into a larger protagonist role, this new incarnation of the comic was named '''''Matt and the Cat'''''.<ref>[http://mychailokazybrid.blogspot.com/2007/01/its-november-1984.html "It's November 1984..." on the Humph the Cat Blogspot]</ref> It was first published in [[The Transformers issue 5|issue 5]], and ran until [[The Transformers issue 73|issue 73]] in 1986, with only a few interruptions – though its last
This was not the end for breakout character Humph, and he would appear in his own 23-page sequel story online in 2010.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20130504040529/http://mychailokazybrid.blogspot.com/ Humph the Cat Blogspot (archived, 2013)]</ref> In 2011, Kazybrid would post a four page prequel to that story that directly referenced
==''Matt and the Cat'' strips in TFUK==
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