Billy the Bee Appriciation Society with Captain William Bee and Bumble - Royal Bombeediers

"Billy the Bee" cartoon syndicated by the Evening Standard and published in Evening Gazette on Teesside between 1954 and 1964.

The First Publication in The Evening Gazette on 28 June 1954 and Last Publication on 30 October 1964 (Mission accomplished).

The cartoon was the brainchild of Harry Smith (real name Henry Lawson Smith).

Does anyone know who Henry Lawson Smith was and what happened to him

Series included such titles as "The Day the Worms Turned" and "Billy and the Beast".




Click on below links to view Cartoons - You may need "Flash" loaded on your computer to run

The Day the Worms Turned

Billy and the Beast


The last Publication.


From 1954.


From 1955.


Finally "Biography of a Bee" by Harry Smith


Coming soon