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Lew Stringer wrote:Comics treated like baked beans.

Lew

Maybe they should have called it 'Baked Beano'.

(Gets coat).

Beano Beano,
Good for the heart,
The more you read,
The more you...would like to read even more!

I'd like to see (obviously not as reprints) some Beezer and Topper characters in this new comic/magazine, such as Ginger, Mickey the Monkey, Scaredy Cat etc. etc. Can't wait for it to come out!

Sneak peeks at pages from BeanoMAX and more info about the comic is now available here:

http://beanomax.beanotown.com/

Lew

Nice to see Calamity James.........

That Mr Bean's a reprint...
It's taken from pictures off the TV, put in to the Mr Bean Magazine, and then BeanoMAX but the speech bubbles are left the same font as usual though!

Actually that's not a Calamity James strip you see, it's Jack Flash. Alan Digby spoke to me and said they were thinking of reviving it (old strip from the 40s that also ran in Nutty in the 80s) and would I have a go at a script.

So I wrote a 16 page action adventure, in the style of the Billy The Cat I'd just done. Then thru the post I get a copy of the Tam Paterson version which is a totally different genre.

So I fear my action version might not see the light of day. And so far I've only seen Tam's version without dialogue so I've no idea if it's any good. (I'm sure it is).

What's surprised me is how low-key the ad for BeanoMax was in this weeks Beano. Years ago any new DCT comic would be heralded by an extra four-page pull out in Dandy and Beano. Now we get a half page ad for the first new Thomson's comic in years. Quite bizarre.

Lew

normally in pink

Rich Johnston's Lying in the Gutters column today has a sneak peek at two panels from BeanoMAX No.1. By David Sutherland and Steve Bright if I'm not mistaken:

http://www.comicbookresources.com/columns/?column=13

(Scroll down near to the bottom of the page to see it.)

Lew

I think he got those pics from here...

http://tinyurl.com/38xs3u

Gary Northfield wrote:I think he got those pics from here...

http://tinyurl.com/38xs3u

It appears so, - and he didn't even bother changing the title of the jpegs he dragged & dropped to his desktop!

...or bother to check on the story. The Beano isn't "transforming itself into a Comic Relief special" it's the first issue of an ongoing new comic!

Still, the CBR site pays little attention to British humour comics so I suppose any mention is better than nothing.

Lew

[img:416:300]http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/4255 ... er_gal.jpg[/img] it looks really good.......

I suggested this obvious idea on the Beano section of comicsuk forum... Jamie Oliver cooking for the bash street kids...
http://www.comicsuk.co.uk/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=802

I liked the comic part.good to see its more comic than magazine..

Jack Flash was great....are we going to have this character every month or a new updated character every month..e.g G. Jumbo..Billy the cat..iron fish..etc..

Who was the guest with Billy Whizz?.........

David, Steve, Nigel all did great caricatures..

The Bash Street kids with Jamie Oliver and the darlek was very good..

Low distribution of DC Thomson titles being sadly the norm around here I managed to buy the one copy my local newsagents had.

Seems to be very much in the new Dandy style with its format of comics & articles - but almost twice the price! Wise to do this as a separate title than to change the weekly though.

It should appeal to the kids.

Lew