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3 unusual facts about Harry Kipper


Harry Kipper

When The Kipper Kids, Martin von Haselberg and Brian Routh coined the name Kipper Kids, they were originally called Harry and Alf Kipper and had two distinctly different characters.

Based on a family friend of Kipper Kid and performance Artist, Brian Routh, the name Harry was added as a first name for each Kipper Kid in 1971.

The story was created and propagated that Harry Kipper, a British conceptual artist, had mysteriously gone missing on the Italian-Yugoslav border whilst on a biking tour of Europe, allegedly with the intention of tracing the word Art across the continent.



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