[The Australian Panther]

Clare Victor Dwiggins
https://www.lambiek.net/artists/d/dwiggins_cv.htm

[One of his most memorable creation was 'School Days', a Sunday strip that appeared in the early 1910s. As the title suggests, it depicted the life of schoolkids, and was drawn with a Victorian atmosphere. Evolving from a one-panel strip into a continuing story, the strip ran until 1932.]

[By 1918 Dwig created the Sunday comic 'Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn', which was loosely based on the classic book by Mark Twain. For the Ledger Syndicate, Dwig created 'Nipper', which appeared from 1931 to 1937. Starting in 1940, he returned to 'Huckleberry Finn', this time published in Doc Savage Comics and Supersnipe Comics. In the latter comic book, he also drew 'Bobby Crusoe' in 1945. That same year, he left comics and focused on illustration. He has published five books with August Derleth until his death in 1958.]
Actually this anachaic stuff has a very modern 'British strip' feel to it. 'Orphelia' could be a punk.

Link to the book: School Days