Simply put, [Jack Slingsby] is a masterpiece of the Carol Day strip, David Wright's art, and the medium in general.

As in [Lance Hallam], [Jack Slingsby] is the story of Carol's affair with a married man. However, in Lance Hallam Carol was a naïve young girl starting out her life in London, and she is easily deceived and taken advantage of by Hallam. By the time of [Jack Slingsby], Carol is much more worldly, and she enters the affair knowingly, with eyes wide open. If she has a true love in the course of the strip's run, he is Jack Slingsby, and their star-crossed affair is all the more tragic in that Wright communicates the depth of feeling in their adultery so effectively.

For David Wright as well, this story was intensely personal, according to his son Patrick, and David Wright put everything he had into it. Patrick comments, "the hundred or so boards that comprise the story of Carol's affair with a married man is simply perfect. One of the reasons I think it so good is that he devoted a lot of time to making all the characters 'real'. They look like real people rather than simply cardboard images…The final pages when the affair comes to an end are as good as any he produced; they are fabulous pieces of work. The whole story is handled with tremendous delicacy."

Strip 2414 marks the first appearance of Nicky Wright's first wife, Caroline, as Iris Meadows. Actor Al Mancini plays Jack Slingsby. Memphis Slim makes a rare appearance in strip 2486.

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