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Beano, the second longest-running comic in the world, has seen its first issue published on the 30th of July, 1938, sold for more than £30,000 at auction last week This has made it the most expensive British comic ever sold, and slightly more than its original cover price of two pence or 2d Only a[...]

DC Thomson, publishers of The Beano, have announced their range of annuals for 2024/2025, with both the Beano, Dandy, Oor Wullie and The Broons  getting volumes, and released in time for London Book Fair tomorrow From one of the longest-standing comic book publishers in the world, the Beano Annual especially is iconic to the country,[...]

Created by Dave Donaldson, Steve Bright and John Geering, he first appeared in the weekly British kids comic Nutty in 1980, which I totally bought before transferring to The Dandy and then Beano, the second longest-running comic book in the world – the longest is Action Comics The character gained greater fame when, from 1983 to[...]

The 62-page book will be distributed via refugee charities and support groups. Contributors include Sir Quentin Blake, Ralph Steadman, Chris Riddell, Posy Simmonds, Ros Asquith, Nicola Jennings, Terry Gilliam, and Guy Venables of the PCO, who states that not one cartoonist approached declined to contribute, with The Beano, Viz Comic and Phoenix offering their help[...]

Broadcaster, host, stand-up comedian, performer, TV and stage producer, comic con organiser, comic book writer, artist and inker, he has worked on everything from Doctor Strange to The Beano to putting on the first Bristol Comic Cons, creating the stage show and TV show The Sitcom Trials, which featured both an early version of Miranda and,[...]

London's Cartoon Museum is planning to help, as well as The Beano comic Guy Venables, a cartoonist for Metro, Private Eye and The Spectator, is currently taking the lead He xeets "Response for the colouring in book has been astonishing Once we've got the commercial print run going you can expect to see work from[...]

The longest-running comic in Britain, The Beano, is celebrating its 85th anniversary this week, with over 4000 issues The new issue #4195 guest-stars Stormzy, Harry Styles, Sir David Attenborough, Jill Scott, KSI, Rose Ayling-Ellis, Adele, Lewis Hamilton, Ryan Reynolds, Rob McElhenney, Fleur East, Phil Foden, Tom Holland, Kate Bush, Marcus Rashford, Ant & Dec, Lewis[...]

The Beano is an anthology weekly comic for kids created by Scottish publishing company DC Thomson First published in 1938, and known for characters such as Dennis the Menace, Minnie the Minx, The Bash Street Kids, Roger the Dodger, Billy Whizz, and Lord Snooty, it is known for featuring arranged celebrity cameos, And that has[...]

When I heard that About Comics was to publish The Beano I was confused I was, naturally thinking this Beano Not the American Beano Because I don't know there was one. For half a century Margaret Ahern created humorous newspaper strips about an impish orphan for The Waifs' Messenger, the monthly publication of The Mission of[...]

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The Daily Mail loves a story about how "woke" the British weekly kids comic The Beano that has been running almost as long as Action Comics, is getting, Woke might actually mean being aware of injustice around you, especially racial injustice, but The Daily Mail has decided, as have many people, it's the hip replacement[...]

And they are being joined by Scotland's biggest comic book publisher DC Thompson, of The Beano, for a new exhibition in Oxford's Story Museum, running from the end of May to March next year It's a real shame Oxford no longer has a comic shop, as there could have been lots of synergy But it's[...]

David Sutherland took over drawing The Bash Street Kids for British weekly comic book The Beano in 1962 at the age of 29 Sixty years later, aged 89, he is still drawing them.  As well as The Bash Street Kids for The Beano, he drew Dennis the Menace from 1970 to 1998, and still does[...]

The Beano is one of the longest running comic books in the world, the first issue published just weeks after Action Comics #1 – and it has been weekly as well The Bash Street Kids has been running since 1954, created by Leo Baxendale, about a class of naughty schoolkids And with the new issue,[...]

The Beano is the second oldest ongoing comic book in the world, beaten only by Action Comics by a matter of weeks This week's edition, issue #4062, is getting a special insert pullout section dubbed BeanOLD, and aimed at adults with a satirical, political bent This won't be in the manner of the adult Viz[...]

However, if you are British, and of a certain age close to that of Boris Johnson, with a working knowledge of the Beano, it means something very different. The Beano is a weekly comic book anthology that has been running since 1938 and has published over 4000 issues, and is very much a traditional part of[...]

By Olly MacNamee From The Beano to The Regular Show, Laura Howell has quietly been working to build a career in comics that spans both sides of the pond as well as taking time to offer comic book workshops in schools and libraries around the Midlands here in the UK As a local artist, this interview[...]

Inside this week's eighty-year running British weekly Beano comic book, we get a new edition of the strip that has been running since the seventies, The Numskulls A strip about the people inside our head who control our every move and thought And they have been to the movies… Because, yes, Inside Out has just been[...]

Publishers of comics such as The Beano, Commando, Dennis & Gnasher WWE Kids and the Jacqueline Wilson Magazine, they have a new Thunderbirds Are Go comic book coming out soon. And as a result, will be sponsoring the entire channel for a year, starting in August, that will promote their line of titles.   ITV are already running[...]

They've expanded into other countries, other continents, launched new publishing initiatives, translations and services. And now, they are adding Scottosh publisher and British mainstay DC Thompson to the list, including kids comics The Beano and war comics Commando, to the ever expanding library of comic books. This includes modern titles and classic compilations, such as the much[...]

Ah well, it's all for charity… and no, we didn't find a gold nose. As is tomorrow's edition of the Beano weekly comic book, with a red and gold cover by Nigel Parkinson and plenty of Red Nose Day content In the Red Nose Day Special, Red Nose Day comes to Bash Street School[...]

Nigel Auchterlounie is a cartoonist who writes and draws the Dennis And Gnasher strip in British kids weekly comic, The Beano. He also watches Doctor Who Then writes and draws what he remembers of it… including Daleks in most episodes Here is the season so far, and last night's episode below… Nigel Auchterlounie is a cartoonist[...]

He's editing an issue of the weekly kids comic, The Beano, running since 1939. Which means appearing in it as well And celebrating his famous temper… In his editor's letter, he is quoted as saying "Olympic Gold was my proudest moment; becoming the first male British Wimbledon winner for 77 years was amazing, but this might be[...]

Enjoy the show! In other news, DC Thompson have announced that Dennis The Menace's dog Gnasher, of the weekly Beano comic book, has gone missing As has a certain bone… The dinosaur thigh bone went missing from the Museum during a visit by Dennis the Menace and his family yesterday.  The museum's CCTV footage shows an unusually bristly animal[...]

And he arranged and presented the National Comics Awards with Mark Buckingham – the first comics show to invite Jonathan Ross to present. And he writes and draws in the weekly British kids comic The Beano, which has been running since the nineteen thirties But he still manages to bring in other comic book influences. Such as[...]

A comic book came second, for the PPA's best magazine cover of all time, beaten by another of Bleeding Cool's obsessions, so we're all happy. And now we

At the weekends, Beanotown at London's South Bank hold free workshops for kids This weekend that consisted of Aardman Animator Jim Parkyn teaching kids how to make their own character models, in this case The Beano's Gnasher, as well as handing out animation software so they can create their own stop frame films. I took my[...]

Nice and topical, Andy Murray and his mother have made it into the Beano's 75th anniversary issue, out in a couple of weeks, in a game or three against Minnie The Minx The strip has been rewritten to reflect his recent win, the first British men's champion at Wimbledon since before the Beano was published! [...]

Meet Angel Face, Dennis The Menace's rival who began appearing in the weekly Beano comic strip since last year, but is now making a jump to the new series of the Dennis The Menace TV cartoon on CBBC Daughter of the school's headmaster, but who gets away with murder due to her innocent expression, she[...]