Corky

Also called Mr Corcoran, Bruce, Promising Young Artist, Bruce Corcoran

Bruce Corcoran, an impecunious would-be portrait-painter living on an allowance from his uncle, who finds success with a comic strip.

In each book 2 books

• In My Man Jeeves
  Bruce Corcoran, an impecunious would-be portrait-painter living on an allowance from his uncle, who finds success with a comic strip.
• In Carry On, Jeeves
  Bruce Corcoran, an aspiring portrait-painter dependent on his uncle, who finds success with a comic strip.

Connections

dealings

• depends financially on, is nephew of Alexander Worple 12
• is a friend of Bertie Wooster 12
• blames, rewards Jeeves 6
• is engaged to Muriel Singer 4
• loathes, dislikes the Worple baby 4
• is a friend of the Sunday Star's comic editor 3
• creates, paints Corky's portrait of the baby^✦︎ 2
• makes a hit with The Adventures of Baby Blobbs^✦︎ 1

Everyone and everything else (4)

• is a friend of Gussie Mannering-Phipps 1
• hires Sam Patterson 1
• sells to the Sunday Star^⁂ 1
• dreads Worple's jute business^⁂ 1

Scenes they are in

My Man Jeeves 5 scenes

1. Corky brings his fiancée Muriel Singer to ask how to break the news to his uncle, and Jeeves proposes that she 'write' a children's bird book dedicated to Worple, at Bertie's expense.Chapter 1, Bertie's New York flat
2. The first copies of The Children's Book of American Birds arrive at Corky's place, full of praise for Worple, and Bertie and Corky think it a cert.Chapter 1, Corky's studio
3. Corky reports that his uncle has written Muriel a warm letter inviting her to call.Chapter 1, Bertie's New York flat
4. Bertie finds Corky painting the baby's portrait for his uncle, his first commission, and hating the infant who has done him out of his inheritance.Chapter 1, Corky's studio
5. Worple is outraged by the leering portrait and orders Corky into the jute business, but Jeeves suggests the picture as a comic series, 'The Adventures of Baby Blobbs'.Chapter 1, Corky's studio

Carry On, Jeeves 5 scenes

1. Jeeves proposes a ghostwritten bird book to win Worple’s approval of Muriel, with Bertie paying for it.Chapter 2, Bertie's New York flat
2. The conspirators admire the new book’s lavish praise of Worple.Chapter 2, Corky's studio
3. Corky reports that Worple has warmly invited Muriel to meet him.Chapter 2, Bertie's New York flat
4. Bertie finds Corky bitterly painting the baby who has displaced him from his inheritance.Chapter 2, Corky's studio
5. Worple threatens to stop Corky’s allowance over the ghastly portrait, but Jeeves turns it into the idea for Baby Blobbs.Chapter 2, Corky's studio

Talked about, but not there

My Man Jeeves 7 scenes

1. Bertie illustrates Jeeves's omniscience: he was right about the check suit and about Wonderchild in the Lincolnshire, so Bertie makes him the brains of the establishment.Chapter 1, as Bruce Corcoran
2. Bertie explains how he came to New York and met Corky, a would-be portrait-painter living on an allowance from his bird-loving, jute-rich uncle Alexander Worple.Chapter 1
3. Back in town, Bertie finds Muriel dining alone and learns she has left the stage and married Corky's uncle, who invites Bertie to dinner.Chapter 1, the quiet restaurant
4. Bertie tells Jeeves that Muriel has married the uncle, and Jeeves admits he had foreseen it but did not like to say.Chapter 1, Bertie's New York flat, as Mr. Corcoran
5. Having avoided Corky for months, Bertie reads in the paper that Mrs. Alexander Worple has had a son and heir, and is too sorry for Corky to eat his breakfast.Chapter 1, Bertie's New York flat
6. Corky telephones that the portrait is finished and his uncle is coming to inspect it, and Bertie agrees to come only if he may bring Jeeves.Chapter 1, Bertie's New York flat
7. Corky's series is a hit and has rewarded Jeeves generously, and Bertie gives in when Jeeves vetoes the blue suit with the faint red stripe.Chapter 1, Bertie's New York flat, as Mr. Corcoran

Carry On, Jeeves 7 scenes

1. Bertie explains his American exile and Corky’s dependence on an uncle who despises his artistic ambitions.Chapter 2
2. Bertie meets Muriel at a restaurant and discovers she has married Corky’s uncle.Chapter 2, the quiet restaurant
3. Jeeves admits he had foreseen the possibility of Muriel marrying the uncle.Chapter 2, Bertie's New York flat, as Mr Corcoran
4. A birth announcement tells Bertie that Corky has lost his position as Worple’s heir.Chapter 2, Bertie's New York flat
5. Corky telephones for moral support when his uncle comes to inspect the finished portrait, and Bertie insists on bringing Jeeves.Chapter 2, Bertie's New York flat
6. Bertie celebrates Corky’s successful comic series and rewards Jeeves’s judgement by accepting his choice of suit.Chapter 2, Bertie's New York flat, as Mr Corcoran
7. Bertie explains Rocky’s leisurely career as a poet and his expectations from a wealthy aunt.Chapter 5