Happy Birthday Beano: The Dandy’s Better!

By John Freeman on August 2, 2008

One last word from the Happy Birthday Beano exhibition in the Lamb Gallery in Dundee.

One of the first things you see on entering the exhibition gallery from the stairway is a comments book for the exhibition and it has been well used in the two weeks since the exhibition’s opening.

As would be expected there are many positive comments in the book about the exhibition and about The Beano in general. The most striking is this one simply stating “THE BEANO IS THE BEST”.

I wonder if former Dandy editors Morris Heggie and Dave Torrie got a chance to look at the comments book when they were at the birthday event on Wednesday because if they had turned the page I’m sure they would have smiled at seeing this –

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John Freeman

John is the founder of downthetubes, launched in 1998. He is a comics and magazine editor, writer, and Press Officer for the Lakes International Comic Art Festival. He also runs Crucible Comic Press.

Working in British comics publishing since the 1980s, his credits include editor of titles such as Doctor Who Magazine and Overkill for Marvel UK, Babylon 5 Magazine, Star Trek Magazine, and its successor, Star Trek Explorer, and more. He also edited the comics anthology STRIP Magazine and edited several audio comics for ROK Comics; and has edited several comic collections and graphic novels, including volumes of “Charley’s War” and “Dan Dare”, and Hancock: The Lad Himself, by Stephen Walsh and Keith Page.

He’s the writer of comics such as Pilgrim: Secrets and Lies for B7 Comics; “Crucible”, a creator-owned project with 2000AD artist Smuzz; and “Death Duty” and “Skow Dogs”, with Dave Hailwood.