It’s quite fitting that the first artist to be written about on this blog should be Phil Gascoine, who was in Jinty from the first issue (with Gail’s Indian Necklace) to the last one (with Badgered Belinda). His art is distinctive in any case but identification of him as the artist of these stories is indisputable, because he often signed his work with large, looping letters, as is the case in this page from ‘No Cheers for Cherry’.
Phil was a great all-rounder in story terms; very good at drawing pretty (but realistic) teenage girls, as above, but also well able to do sports stories, science fiction, and spooky magic that verged into horror.
List of Jinty stories attributable to Phil Gascoine:
- Gail’s Indian Necklace (1974; summary page)
- Bird-Girl Brenda (1974-75; summary page)
- Bet Gets the Bird! (1975)
- The Green People (1975)
- Golden Dolly, Death Dust! (1975-76; summary page)
- Fran of the Floods (1976; summary page)
- Girl in a Bubble (1976; summary page)
- Freda, False Friend (1977)
- No Cheers for Cherry (1978)
- The Changeling (1978; summary page)
- Prisoner of the Bell (1979)
- A Girl Called Gulliver (1979)
- Waves of Fear (1979; summary page)
- When Statues Walk… (1980)
- The Venetian Looking Glass (1980)
- Tears of a Clown (1980; summary page)
- No Medals for Marie (1981)
- Diving Belle (1981)
- Holiday Hideaway (1981; summary page)
- Badgered Belinda (1981; summary page)
List of Tammy stories credited to Phil Gascoine after the Tammy & Jinty merger:
- Nanny Young (1982-1983)
- Backhand Play (1983)
- Into the First at Trebizon (1983-1984)
- Raining Cats and Dogs (complete story 10 March 1984)
- I’m Her – She’s Me! (1984). Unfinished due to Tammy’s disappearance from a strike
Princess II stories attributed to Phil Gascoine:
- The Secret Swimmer (1984)
A Resource on Jinty: Artists, Writers, Stories 
A great artist, and Dutch magazine Tina must have thought the stories for which he was the artist were suitable for their audience, because most of the titles mentioned in this blog entry have been published overhere. My favourite, ‘The Venetian looking glass’ (published in Tina in 1983), is one of those stories of which you couldn’t wait to read next week’s episode. ‘Holiday hideaway’ (published in Tina in 1982) was funny at the time, but when I read it again a while ago, I thought it was a bit silly. I guess some stories stay with you, others drift away when you get older.
Holiday Hideaway is a bit silly, I agree. When I re-bought a collection of Jinty I was in my twenties and a keen comics reader; I was excited to be able to re-read the stories I remembered, to see if they were as weird and interesting as I remembered, but I did think I might just as well find that they were thinner and less substantial than they’d seemed at the time. I was delighted to find that loads of the stories really stood up magnificently to re-reading!