THE REAL ROOBARB!
Here is a brief history of how Roobarb first came to roam the garden by the iconic animation's creator Grange Calveley…
“It all began when this chap, a Welsh Bored Collie, came to live with us. Hanny and I hadn’t been married for very long when we came to live in this lovely house with its big garden, its shed and its old conker tree. Oh and the rhubarb that grew under an old rusty bucket. That’s about when our four legged Welsh friend moved in and the first thing that he did was to water the rhubarb. And from that moment on, we called him Roobarb.”
I worked in an advertising agency and my “computer” in those days was my layout pad and my felt tip pens. In between thinking up advertising campaigns, I used to daydream about what Roobarb might be up to. Was he in the house – still trying to catch the fly from last evening? Was he in the garden watching next door’s cat on the fence? Before I knew it, I had a pad full of drawings.”
