Beano book 1960-69

Not my favourite it is too realistic. Almost spooky. The eye lashes etc..its very creepy.




Very simple drawn by Dudley D Watkins. Nice the use of the B used in both words. This looks like Biffo.




A nice swinging image. Again the character is reading the actual book.
Very 3D looking almost puppet like. A nice use of the lettering..holding the swing up.




Nice use of a heavy hadow on Jonah drawn by Ken Reid. I think it was coloured by someone else has Ken wasn't well in this period. The laces are almost dancing along with the jig. Again very hyper real. It really stands out. Even the Beano wording is sinking down with the ship. I like the hat reasing on the word Book.




Theres lots of great touches in this image. Like his vest stuck in the mast. The clothes jig along to the music..nice colourful notes..



Biffos nose looks very strange almost dog like...its almost as if he is wearing a mask. Nice use of the dumbbell as the letters 'oo' in Book.
Nice colour stripes for the background like a circus tent. Biffo is almost leaning on the strongmans head!!






Biffos face have a Mickey Mouse quality..I like the use of bluey grey on the ears and eyes and a light slit in the eyes..it is great seeing the early Bash Street kids in colour...theres the teddy boy Bash Street kid..and the almost normal Plug. Its a strange image of a picture within a picture..teacher reading the actual Beano book in a jigsaw. So many levels. The colours and drawing really have an old feeling to it.almost 30's feel its that green colour...love this image..

The teddy boy on the front cover of the beano book was called teddy fancy that! and he was with the bash street kids from 1/9/56 to 8/10/60

dandy mad
It was Korky artist James Crighton who drew the cover for the Beano book 1960 and his last.

Thanks dandymad from comicsuk forum for the info.
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http://www.comicsuk.co.uk/Forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=2251

The back cover is very bizarre...the images are all mixed up...with a very realistic Dennis arm and hand highlighted in yellow. Dennis and Little Plum in skirts...or leave skirt...the character Dennis is mixed up with is a Black native character Pom Pom drawn by Gordon Bell in the book. The head of Pom Pom is on Little Plums legs and body...black and white mixed up. The cats head is from Kat and Kanary strip..the Kings body is Prince Whoopee...Minnies skirt is on Little Plum...


Comicsuk website has all the Beano annual covers to see..

Beano book 1976-79

The bouncing goes with the bouncy clouds. Also love the Beano book wording being put behind the image. I like the fun 70's toy being used, also the face on it of Dennis the Menace. Good use of red throughout. I like this one best out of the ones shown here.





Interesting angles used on both pictures..good choices. A lower angle for the rolling snowball coming towards us and the characters. You can see undernesth there running boots. Then a high view to show the tree and the characters laughing. You can see the top of Lord Snootys Top hat. Also they are shown looking back. Great contrasts.

lovely clouds formation on each of these images. Every Beano book title font was different from the next. Coloured depending on the main colour of the picture.

Beano book 1970-75

The way the kids are drawn in different falling angles gives it a real 3D quality. Very hard to draw!


The shininess of the frying pan is great..



There seems to be a battle between Biffo and Dennis the Menace...same thing happened in the early Beano annuals between Big Eggo and Biffo...have a look for yourselves at comicsuk.co.uk annuals section under Beano. Enjoy zooming in!! Good shadows...especially on Biffos shoulders. Again makes it more alive..


My favourite Beano book cover. You can really see the paint colouring. Its fun seeing what eye colour they are. Fatty has blue eyes!
Billy Whizz is fun...his whizzing smoke sure saves the artist a lot of drawing loads of feet!!




You can really see the juice of this lolly...lovely idea..yummy!
Also great looking grass details. Like this one a lot!







It is nice to see these images large. A lot of websites on comic annuals show them very small...you miss such a lot of detail that way.