The Beano at 85

This week marks the 85th anniversary of the launch of the Beano, an iconic comic that in many respects is the last old school comic standing of the classics many of us had as children.

Today there are newer more "inclusive" characters and Teacher is now a supportive sort rather than a fearsome disciplinian but let's be honest here, that comic is intended for today's children and the world they inhabit which is in various ways different to what we experienced as we read the Beano at age nine or whatever age you were back then where the World of Dennis The Menace, Minnie and Roger The Dodger we read was like our home and school life.

In that way todays readers and us have the same connection with the comic which results in those sales to young readers that has kept it in weekly publication unlike the Dandy which we lost in late 2012.

To tie in with this a new edition of the Beantown Guide is being published setting out all the places and faces of the modern Beano for young fans.