Tom & Jerry Annual 1979

This annual includes some later artwork and the drawings arn't quite as good as before. The stories are up to spec though and include a memorable one where Tom becomes an ice skating waiter at a mountain top cafe in Switzerland.

In nearly all of the stories Tom is no longer chasing the mice but instead being menaced by ghosts or trying to become a TV advert star but then again that is probably because the "Tom chasing Jerry" meme works for a cartoon but gets old fast in a comic strip. The great thing about these comics is how they expanded the Tom & Jerry universe.

The best story however is a little more traditional (and has the classic era artwork natch). In one of my favourite Tom & Jerry stories Tom bores of chasing the mice takes up knitting, confused by this change of behaviour Jerry and Tuffy begin a scientific study of the cat...