List of Beano comic strips

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Current strips

* Ball Boy by Dave Eastbury
* The Bash Street Kids drawn by David Sutherland and Nigel Parkinson
* Bash Street Kids - Singled Out by Tom Paterson
* Bash Street Kids Adventures by Kev.F.Sunderland, on occasion
* Bea with Ivy the Terrible by Nigel Parkinson
* Billy Whizz - David Parkins reprints from the 1990s
* Dennis the Menace and Gnasher by Jim Hansen, Nigel Parkinson and Tom Paterson
* Derek the Sheep by Gary Northfield, on occasion
* Freddie Fear Son of a Witch by Dave Eastbury
* Fred's Bed - reprints from the Beezer and Topper comic. By David Parkins, occasionally by Tom Paterson
* Johnny Bean from Happy Bunny Green by Laura Howell - only Beano strip ever drawn by a female artist.
* Les Pretend He's Round the Bend- John Sherwood reprints from the 1990's.
* Lord Snooty the Third drawn by Nigel Parkinson, new version for 70th anniversary of Beano.
* Minnie the Minx by Tom Paterson and Ken Harrison
* The Numskulls (from The Beezer) by Barry Glennard and Tom Paterson
* Olaff the Madlander reprints from the Beezer and Topper comic, originally called Adrian the Barbarian.
* Pirates of the Caribeano by Barrie Appleby
* Ratz by Hunt Emerson and Laura Howell
* Roger the Dodger by Barrie Appleby

Extra-long comics featuring all of the current characters sometimes appeared, usually based around some theme (e.g. the Queen's Birthday, 65 years of the Beano, etc). But these have now been phased out, the monthly BeanoMAX serving this purpose now.

Past strips

* 2-Gun Tony The King Street Cowboy
* Alf Wit The Ancient Brit
* Baby Face Finlayson The Cutest Bandit in the West!/The Cutest Bandit Around (though more recently seen in two extra long strips in the Beano)
* The Belles of St. Lemons
* Benny Blowhard
* Biffo the Bear (later abbreviated to "Biffo")
* Big Brad Wolf
* Big Eggo
* Big Fat Joe
* Big Hugh and You
* Billy the Cat and Katie
* Billy the Cat and General Jumbo 2008 Annual only, three parts
* Black Bun
* Boss and Bert
* Brave Captain Kipper
* Bucktooth the boy who lives in a barrel.
* Calamity James
* The Cannonball Crackshots
* Camp Cosmos
* Christmas Carole
* Chip the Stone Age Boy
* Colin the Vet
* Colonel Crackpot's Circus
* The Colonel's Journals
* Come to Beanotown
* Contrary Mary
* The Country Cuzzins - a group of hillbillys, similar to The Bash Street Kids, plus a goat
* Cracker Jack the Wonder Whip man
* Crazy for Daisy
* The Danger Bus
* The Danger Twins
* Danny on a Dolphin
* Danny's Nanny
* Dasher
* Dean's Dino
* Dennis the Menace - before Gnasher came along
* Ding-Dong Belle
* Dingo the Doggie
* Dog's Breakfast T.V.
* Dr Beastly's Tales of the Slightly Unpleasant
* Emlyn the Gremlin
* Even Steven He's Out for Revenge
* Fatty Fudge
* The Fix-It Twins
* Freddy Flipper-Feet
* Frosty Mcnab
* General Jumbo ("Admiral Jumbo" for a while)
* The Germs with Ill Will
* Get Rid of the Runaway Twins
* G For Giant
* Gnasher's Tale
* Gnasher and Gnipper
* Go, Granny, Go!
* Good King Coke He's Stoney Broke
* Gordon Bennett
* Gordon Gnome
* Grandpa
* The Great Flood Of London
* Hairy Dan
* Handy Sandy
* Hard-Nut the Nigger
* Have a Go Jo
* Helpful Henry
* Hooky's Magic Bowler Hat
* The Horse that Jack Built
* Hot Foot
* The Hovertank
* Hugh Dunnit
* The Hungry Little Goodwins
* Inspector Horse and Jocky
* In the Land of the Silver Dwarfs
* The Iron Fish
* It's Panto Time (Beano All Stars)
* Jack Flash
* Jacky Daw with Maw and Paw
* Jimmy and his Magic Patch
* Jinx - a boarding school girl who jinxes everything she is involved in, similarly to Jonah
* Joe Jitsu by Wayne Thompson
* Joe's Joke Corner - corner with joke that was sent in and a picture about it
* Joe King
* Joe King's Top 40 Joke Box
* Johnny Hawk
* Johnny Leopard
* Jonah
* Karate Sid
* Kat and Kanary
* The Laughing Pirate
* Lazy Jones
* Lester's Little Circus
* Little Dead Eye Dick
* Little Larry
* Little Monkey
* Little Nell and Peter Pell
* Little Plum most recently by Hunt Emerson
* London B4 12
* Lord Snooty
* The Magic Lollipops
* Marmaduke Mean the Miser Annuals only, was also in The Dandy Monster Comic
* Matt Hatter
* Maxy's Taxi
* The McTickles
* Mia Starr
* Minder Bird
* Monkey Tricks
* Morgyn the Mighty also in "Rover" and "Victor" adventure story comics
* Multy the Millionaire
* Musso the Wop - when reprinted in the Golden/60/70 Years books, is always called just "Musso", the strip is a parody of Italian wartime leader Mussolini.
* The Nibblers
* Nicky Nutjob
* Nobby the Enchanted Bobby
* Number 13
* Pansy Potter The Strongman's Daughter
* Pepper the Pony and Lucinda
* Peter the Penguin
* Phone-a-Fiend
* Ping the Elastic Man
* Polly Wolly Doodle And Her Great Big Poodle
* Postie Hastie
* The Pranks of Hicky the Hare
* Prince Whoopee
* Puffing Billy
* Punch and Jimmy - two warring brothers
* Pup Parade
* The Q-Bikes
* Rasher
* Red Rory Of The Eagles
* Richard the Lion
* Ricky Grainger He Laughs at Danger
* Rip Van Wink He's 700 years old!
* Robbie Rebel
* Rupert the Rabbit
* Sammy Shrinko
* Sammy's Super Rubber
* Scammin Sam
* The Shipwrecked Circus
* Simply Smiffy
* Sinbad the Sailor
* Skinny Flint
* Smart Alec
* Smiler the Sweeper
* Smudge
* The Sort Out Squad
* Space Kidette
* Splodge The Naughtiest, Cleverest (he thinks) Goblin in Beanotown Woods (from The Topper)
* Sticky Willie
* Strang the Terrible
* Swanky Lanky Liz
* Sweet Sue a sweet and inoffensive young girl who always got the better of school bullies drawn by Bill Ritchie
* Sydd
* The Neds
* The Terrible Twos! (starring two Beano characters as babies)
* The Three Bears
* Tim Traveller
* Tin-Can Tommy The Clockwork Boy
* Tick Tock Tony
* Tom, Dick and Sally
* Trash Can Ally
* Tricky Dicky (from The Topper)
* Tricky Dicky Ant
* Trouble Ahead
* Uncle Windbag He Tells Tall Tales
* Vic Volcano
* Wavy Davy and his Navy
* Wee Ben Nevis
* Wee Davie and King Willie
* Wee Peem
* Whoopee Hank The Slap-Dash Sheriff
* Wild Boy of the Woods
* Willie's Wonder Gun
* The Wily Ways of Simple Simon
* Winnie the Witch
* The Wizards At War
* Wonderboy
* The Yeti with Betty
* Zap Zodiac

upporting Characters

*Dodge Cat - Roger the Dodger's current pet
*Joe the Crow - his former pet of the 1970s and 1980s
*Olive the Dinner Lady - the Bash Street cook
*Pie Face - along with Curly, a friend of Dennis the Menace.
*Soppy Susan - enemy of Minnie the Minx
*Walter the Softy - enemy of Dennis the Menace, nicknamed the prince of softies.
*Cruncher Kerr - enemy of Roger the Dodger, named after ex-Beano editor Euan Kerr.

External links

http://www.lollipopanimation.com/php/The_Beano_art.php A slightly out of date list of strips.