Silverburn After Dark photo event #silverburnafterdark
Believed to be the world’s only two-legged equestrian statue, it shows Sheriff Lobey Dosser and his arch-nemesis Rank Bajin riding Lobey’s faithful steed, El Fideldo, or Elfie as she is known. The characters are from a cartoon strip written and drawn by Scottish cartoonist Bud Neill, which took Glasgow humour and transported it to the Wild West of Arizona, in a town called Calton Creek, inspired by the Calton area of Glasgow. Lobey and his motley crew had a seven year run in the Evening Times, starting in 1949, with the series then continued in the Sunday Mail. After Neill’s passing in 1970, the series developed somewhat of a cult following, and many are now collected in book form. They have also featured in numerous exhibitions since then; one in 1979 called The Scottish Cartoonists, and another devoted specifically to Neill in 1990, as part of Glasgow’s European City of Culture year.
