 His trusty sidekick, Yellow Dog, always seems to get caught up in Blinky's adventures, and is very keen to get rid of him.When Blinky first appeared in 1990, the design of the character seemed to be a younger version of an earlier Beezer comic strip called "Colonel Blink".However, when "The Beezer and Topper" folded, and Nick Brennan began drawing the strip in January 1994, Blinky took on a new look that was now quite unlike Colonel Blink.