Colonel Blink (tagline: "The Short-Gighted Gink") was a fictional character in a comic strip in the UK comic The Beezer, first appearing in November 1958. Denis Gifford in his Encyclopedia of Comic Characters (1987) attributes his creation to "Carmichael." These days he occasionally appears in the reprint Classics from the Comics series. The strip was drawn by Tom Bannister for the majority of its run, with a few later strips being drawn by Bill Ritchie and Gordon Bell in the same style as Bannister. Aiding and abetting Blink were: