Who is that masked stranger......
The Lone Groover rides again.
Th' Dude was the main character from Tony Benyon's Lone Groover cartoon in New Musical Express. The Lone Groover was a hip, masked bandido who spoke in apostrophes and called everyone "dude" way before the surf culture claimed the term. Famed for coining that polyglot phrase "Erk Alors!" Th' Dude seems to have followed the NME into obscurity.
Just for the heck of it I've grabbed the only cartoons I could find (from this web site) and here they are:
