The latest, "Plunder," unearths some of his best works: a fiendishly cheerful series of images made from 1977 to 1979.
Radio 4 has also been attempting to get listeners to crack a smile with the Reasons to be Cheerful series (listen again here).
Lumpy — a friend of Wally Cleaver (Tony Dow), the older brother of Beaver Cleaver (Jerry Mathers) — was something of a heavy on the cheerful series; he tried to push younger boys around but wasn't very good at it.
The result is a cheerful, scattershot series of visits with various perverse obsessives — a septuagenarian former stripper who has amassed a history of burlesque in souvenirs; a trailer-park denizen who is one of the world's foremost erotic bibliographers; collectors of pornographic paintings, bookplates, vintage magazines.
An article in the Design Journal (1972) described the mural as "Pavement artistry: Camden style", replacing "a drear and grimy structure scrawled with outworn slogans … with a series of cheerful scenes".
The actor Peter Serafinowicz tweeted: "Hey Notting Hill carnival people: I know you're having fun but just keep it down a little, yeah guys?" The presenter Fearne Cotton, however, posted a series of cheerful photos of the crowds surging past her door, or resting their feet by sitting on her front wall, describing them as "more carnival fun".
Other players sensed that Woodfull had become less cheerful following the bodyline series and he offered to drop himself following his run of poor form, but fellow selectors Bradman and Alan Kippax disagreed.
But the series has a cheerful matter-of-factness to it.
The Field Studies Guide series are cheap, cheerful (and conveniently laminated) aides to topics such as mammal paw-prints, or butterfly patterns.
Carrie O'Grady Buy this book at the Guardian bookshop The second, and most cheerful, instalment of the massive Barsetshire series, centred on the cathedral of the title.
October 7, 1917 New York City, New York July 8, 2006 Ojai, California June Allyson Ella Geismann), (born Oct. 7, 1917, Bronx, N.Y. died July 8, 2006, Ojai, Calif ., American actress who, was typecast as the cheerful girl next door in a series of 1940s and '50s films.
