Alf Wit

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Alf Wit (tagline: The Ancient Brit) was a fictional character in a comic strip in the UK comic The Beano, starting in 1947.

Concerning the adventures of a caveman of the same name, his name being a play on the word halfwit, it is notable for being the first published work of artist Bill Holroyd, who would go on to provide many other strips for D.C. Thomson comics over the next few decades. However, this particular strip had a surprisingly short lifespan; it is believed that it may have even lasted a mere two issues (issue 306, dated 5 April 1947, and issue 307, dated 19 April, the fortnightly dates due to paper rationing at the time) before it disappeared, the reason being unknown. Several unused strips exist, which remained unseen for many years until ten of them were included in the book The Beano and The Dandy - History Of Fun (ISBN 0-85116-771-3), published on 5 September 2001.

In common with a lot of cartoon representations of prehistoric life, the strip featured humans living side by side with dinosaurs, when, in actuality, the two species were separated by tens of millions of years.