Wilfred was the 'young son' and was a rabbit with very long ears. Pip, who assumed the 'father' role, was a dog, while the 'mother', Squeak, was a penguin. It concerned the adventures of an orphaned family of animals.

1939 by Austin Bowen Payne, who always signed as A. It was conceived by Bertram Lamb, who took the role of Uncle Dick, signing himself (B.J.L.) in an early book, and was drawn until c. 1940–1950), as well as the Sunday Pictorial in the early years. 'We will get out of her all you can squeeze out of a lemon and a bit more,' the penitent shouted, 'I will squeeze her until you can hear the pips squeak' his policy was to take every bit of property belonging to Germans in neutral and Allied countries, and all her gold and silver and her jewels, and the contents of her picture-galleries and libraries, to sell the proceeds for the Allies' benefit.Pip, Squeak and Wilfred was a British strip cartoon published in the Daily Mirror from 1919 to 1956 (with a break c. An earlier speech in which, in a moment of injudicious candour, he had cast doubts on the possibility of extracting from Germany the whole cost of the war had been the object of serious suspicion, and he had therefore a reputation to regain.

The grossest spectacle was provided by Sir Eric Geddes in the Guildhall at Cambridge.

To squeeze (something) until the pips squeak 'exact the maximum from' is attested by 1918, from pip (n.1). Pip and Squeak (and later Wilfred), the beloved English comic strip animals, debuted May 1919 in the children's section of the Daily Mirror. In World War I it was the soldier's slang name for a small German shell 'which makes both a pip and a squeak when it comes over the trenches'. Also pip-squeak, contemptuous name for an insignificant person, 1910, from the trivial noise a young or weak creature makes.

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