Milligan contributed occasional cartoons to the satirical magazine Private Eye.

Peter Milligan, who began his career at 2000 AD, before working briefly for both Pacific Comics and Eclipse Comics, contributed two titles ( one quarter of the initial line-up ; the same as Gaiman ) to the Vertigo launch.

Milligan was born in Ahmednagar, India, on 16 April 1918, the son of an Irish father, Captain Leo Alphonso Milligan, MSM, RA ( 1890 – 1969 ), who was serving in the British Indian Army.

Milligan, who had grown up in British India, played Kevin O ' Grady, a half-Pakistani half-Irish man who comes to work in a British factory and ends up boarding with his ineffectual foreman Arthur Blenkinsop ( Sykes ), who has to regularly defend Kevin against his racist workmates.

The comedian Spike Milligan ( 1918 – 2002 ), lived at 50 Riseldine Road ( which is on the cusp of Crofton Park and Honor Oak ) after coming to England from India in the 1930s.

Robert Milligan ( c. 1746-1809 ) was largely responsible for the construction of the West India Docks.

Outraged at losses due to theft and delay at London's riverside wharves, Milligan headed a group of powerful businessmen, including the chairman of the West India Merchants of London, George Hibbert, who promoted the creation of a wet dock circled by a high wall.

Milligan served as both Deputy Chairman and Chairman of the West India Dock Company.

The comedian Spike Milligan ( 1918 – 2002 ), lived at 22 Gabriel Street, Honor Oak, and 50 Riseldine Road ( which is on the border of Crofton Park and Honor Oak ) after coming to England from India in the 1930s.

During most of the late 1930s and early 1940s Milligan performed as an amateur jazz vocalist and trumpeter before, during and after being called up for military service in the fight against Nazi Germany, but even then he wrote and performed comedy sketches as part of concerts to entertain troops.

Milligan later blamed the pressure of writing and performing The Goon Show for both his breakdown and the failure of his first marriage.

Milligan married for the first time and began a family.

During a visit to Australia in 1958, a similar special was made for the Australian Broadcasting Commission, " The Gladys Half-Hour ", which also featured local actors Ray Barrett, and John Bluthal, who would appear in several later Milligan projects.

15-minute adaptations of the original scripts by Maurice Wiltshire were used instead, with Milligan, Sellers and Secombe reuniting to provide the voices ; according to a contemporary press report, they received the highest fees the BBC had ever paid for 15-minute shows.

Director John Goldschmidt's film The Other Spike dramatised Milligan's nervous breakdown in a film for Granada Television, for which Milligan wrote the screenplay and in which he played himself.

He was interviewed live on air and remained in the studio for the news broadcast that followed ( read by Rod McNeil ), during which Milligan constantly interjected, adding his own name to news items.

In 1967, applying a satirical angle to a fashion for the inclusion of " superman " inspired characters in UK television commercials, Milligan dressed up in a " Bat-Goons " outfit to head up a series of television commercials for British Petroleum.

Milligan lived for several years in Holden Road, Woodside Park and at The Crescent, Barnet, and was a strong supporter of the Finchley Society.

Garfield was one of three attorneys who argued for the petitioners in the famous Supreme Court case Ex parte Milligan in 1866.

During this period he found time to model for She magazine and also appear in a 1967 stage production of Treasure Island as Squire Trelawney, alongside Spike Milligan and Barry Humphries at the Mermaid Theatre in London.

He met De Momerie's companion, Major Milligan, who appears to be the cocaine supplier for the group.

Murder Must Advertise was adapted for television in 1973 as a mini-series starring Ian Carmichael as Lord Peter Wimsey, Mark Eden as Chief Inspector Charles Parker, Bridget Armstrong as Dian de Momerie, Peter Bowles as Major Milligan, and Paul Darrow as Mr. Tallboy.

He sees an ad for a roommate and talks the reluctant young woman, Connie Milligan ( Jean Arthur ), into letting him sublet half of her apartment.

He frequently wrote for and / or performed with many other leading comedy performers and writers of the period, including Tony Hancock, Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers, John Antrobus and Johnny Speight.

( Sykes and Milligan later jointly formed Associated London Scripts ( ALS ) with Ray Galton and Alan Simpson, a writers ' agency which lasted for well over a decade until being effectively dissolved in 1967.

) Late in 1954 Sykes began collaborating with Spike Milligan on scripts for The Goon Show, easing Milligan's workload.

In 1969 Sykes co-starred with Spike Milligan in the ill-fated television sit-com Curry & Chips, a satire on racial prejudice created and written by Johnny Speight and made for London Weekend Television.

Among writers in English noted for nonsense verse are Edward Lear, Lewis Carroll, Ogden Nash, Mervyn Peake, Colin West, Roald Dahl, Dr. Seuss and Spike Milligan.

Noted artist Daphne Todd was commissioned for the painting, who has had such notable sitters as HRH the Grand Duke of Luxembourg and Spike Milligan.

Milligan and Brett Ewins's Skreemer, written for DC pre-Vertigo ( 1989 ) was subsequently collected by Vertigo, while his work on the DC character Human Target was released entirely by Vertigo as a four-issue miniseries ( 1999 ), an original graphic novel ( 2002 ), and an ongoing series ( 2003 – 2005 ).

Milligan also created the highly acclaimed Enigma, with artist Duncan Fegredo for Vertigo in 1993.

The names primarily associated with the invasion include Jamie Delano, who was approached by DC as the writer of the Swamp Thing spin off Hellblazer ; Neil Gaiman and Dave Mckean, who collaborated on the Black Orchid limited series, as well as the famous and acclaimed Sandman ; Peter Milligan, who launched a new Shade, the Changing Man series ; and Scottish creator Grant Morrison, whose pitch of an Animal Man series was approved.

" Flowers for Rhino " is a critically acclaimed Spider-Man story by Peter Milligan and Duncan Fegredo.

William Stanley Milligan ( born Feb 14, 1955 ), known as Billy Milligan, was the subject of a highly publicized court case in Ohio in the late 1970s.

However, Milligan was criticised for his tendency to make racially charged jokes, especially regarding Jews and Pakistanis, and the series as a whole was decidedly politically incorrect, even by the standards of the 1970s — almost every episode featured an appearance by the scantily-clad, huge-breasted " glamour stooge " Julia Breck.

In 1969, Spike Milligan based a BBC television series named The World of Beachcomber on the columns.

He co-founded The Goon Show radio show with Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers and Harry Secombe, but appeared in only the first 38 shows on the BBC Light Programme from 1951 to 1953.

In a BBC poll in August 1999, Milligan was voted the " funniest person of the last 1000 years ".

* In 1975 Milligan co-wrote ( with Neil Shand ) and co-starred in a BBC TV sitcom called The Melting Pot.

Spike Milligan, writer of The Goon Show, remarked that a lot of blue innuendo came from serviceman's jokes, which most of the cast understood ( they all had been soldiers ) and many of the audience understood, but which passed over the heads of most of the BBC producers and directors, most of whom were " Officer class.

* In the BBC Radio show The Goon Show, Spike Milligan plays a character called Count Jim Moriarty.

A stage actress and model who had appeared as an extra in The Persuaders !, a secretary in The Saint, and other TV shows and films, she started to appear as an extra in BBC comedy productions, including The Two Ronnies, Morecambe and Wise and Spike Milligan.

This was a sitcom written by Spike Milligan and Neil Shand, which was cancelled by the BBC after just one episode had been broadcast.

* There's a Lot of It About ( BBC )-also with Spike Milligan

Milligan penned the script for the BBC interactive animated series " Meta4orce ".

The episode, " The Scarlet Capsule ", was written by Spike Milligan, and used the original BBC Radiophonic Workshop sound effects made for the television serial.

The cast of characters included Worker 846 Winston Seagoon ( Harry Secombe ), Miss Sfnut ( Peter Sellers ) and Worker 213 Eccles ( Milligan ); Big Brother was replaced by the Big Brother Corporation ( i. e. the BBC ) and Goldstein's revolution by Horace Minikstein's Independent Television Army.

In 1975, Carson took the part of Paddy O ' Brien, described as " an Irish Republican landlord and coalman ", in The Melting Pot, a sitcom written by Spike Milligan and Neil Shand, which was cancelled by the BBC after just one episode had been broadcast.

* Q ( TV series ), the Spike Milligan BBC series ; the first series was named " Q5 "

Another theory is that Milligan was inspired by the BBC 6-point technical quality scale of the time, where " Q5 " was severe degradation to picture or sound, and " Q6 " was complete loss of sound or vision.

Milligan resented the BBC for the cold attitude they took towards the series in comparison with series like Flying Circus, and always maintained that, given the opportunity, he would have produced more.

Even the costumes were madcap and contradictory — in some episodes each of them still bore its BBC Wardrobe Department tag — and Milligan seemed to have a fondness for large noses and hats.

It was also covered as " Dance With Me Henry " by Peter Sellers and Spike Milligan as the characters Henry Crun and Minnie Bannister from the BBC radio comedy series The Goon Show in 1955.