For those of you who may be wondering about my avatar...here are 2 original cartoons by Nigel Parkinson who draws the Beano comic. Me and my late husband Simon.
#thebeano
"The Boston tea party" - The Sensatonal Alex Harvey Band
Quite clearly the inspiration for Dennis and the Dinmakers.
I've never been much of an artistic person but I have a love for comics and as part of #therapy over the last few years I have used #ArtTherapy to ease anxiety and lighten my mood.
I grew up reading #TheBeano and always thought I was a Dennis the Menace before becoming an adult and realising I have more in common with Walter the Softy (but I'm no Cuthbert!).
Currently I'm learning to use #Procreate on an #iPadPro with #ApplePencil
Here's a recent doodle of my cat
Ned Hartley from 2022
Back in 2022 I sat down with Ned Hartley over a video call to talk about Bannanaman the Beano and all things kids comics! I had a really great chat and I must chat with him again.
You can find lots of Ned’s work on his website www.nedhartley.com
@Nickiquote When #TheBeano hit 50, cartoonist Steve Bell did a fantastic strip of the grown-up Bash Street Kids. Plug was a rock star, Danny a Mr Fixer...
@Nickiquote As someone who read #TheBeano in the 1960s, I'm glad it's still going, although I think Dennis, Minnie and the Bash Street pupils get whacked less nowadays than they and I both did. :)
It makes me very happy that my kids love #TheBeano and #ThePhoenix. It’s also an incredible achievement to keep real British/Scottish comics for kids going in the face of declining sales and competition from rubbish product tie ins with plastic tat on the cover.
The Beano is 85 years old! I really didn’t think my kids would be reading the Bash Street Kids, Calamity James, the Numskulls and Bananaman in 2024.
How has #TheBeano’s Dennis the Menace survived the rise of television, increased cultural consumption and the digital age?
One of our favourite articles from the History Today Archive is now free to read at https://www.historytoday.com/archive/history-matters/marketing-menace
The title says it all on this one folks
It’s a bit tricky to draw using a track pad.
I’ve got the Christmas editions of the Beano and 2000 ad! That’s me sorted for over Christmas now!
What a slap in the face for D C Thomson, proud Unionists to the core. Their beloved UK Government treats them with the same disdain as they show all Scots.
#DennisTheMenace #TheBeano
UK Government poster claims Dennis the Menace was 'created in London' https://www.thenational.scot/news/23812196.uk-government-poster-claims-dennis-menace-created-london/?ref=rss
/me raises a glass of fizzy pop and wishes a very happy birthday to The Beano comic, 85 years old today.
Here's to even more silly, fun, laughing, loving, child-friendly entertainment.
This month on the #BowieBookClub we read #TheBeano, a British comic that taught the fundamentals of anarchy to the youth of the UK decades before Johnny Rotten gave his first snarl.
http://www.bowiebookclub.com/episodes/2023/7/22/the-beano
#comics #bookclub @bookstodon
We’re getting in touch with our inner kid while reading the #BowieBookClub pick this month. #TheBeano
#comics #reading @bookstodon
BEANO’S BASH STREET KIDS ARTIST DAVID SUTHERLAND DIES
The artist behind the Beano's Bash Street Kids has died, aged 89.
David Sutherland was described as the "single most important illustrator in Beano history" by the editor of the children's comic.
Mr Sutherland, who was from Invergordon in the Highlands, spent more than 60 years with Beano and began illustrating the Bash Street Kids in 1962.
RIP David Sutherland - Dennis the Menace (the UK one) was a childhood hero, and I used to wish I went to school with the Bash Street Kids 😊 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-64339747
Also RIP David Crosby, Death takes another rock legend (leave them alone for five minutes FFS)
#thebeano #dennisthemenace #bashtreetkids #davidsutherland #davidcrosby #thebyrds #crosbystillsandnash #crosbystillsnashandyoung etc
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