 Philip Harbottle, a leading "Garth" expert and collector of the strips, wrote several of the stories during the 1990s.Martin Asbury became "Garth's" artist after Frank Bellamy's death in 1976, drawing the strip and writing many of the stories until its final episode in 1997.In 1993, Bill Storrie produced a dozen or so 60-page photocopied magazines titled "The Gopherville Argus Special Edition No.