 His main rival was the snooty Percival Primm.Other characters in the strip included Smudge's Mum and over the years he had two different pets firstly a mouse and an animal of a never revealed although bipedal species (this is something of a running joke in Smudge strips) completely covered in mud and called Spludge.There was also another character, a girl, of the same name in the 1940s Dandy.