List of Beano comic strips
Strip Title Notes Original Artist Start Date End Date
Minder Bird About a bird who had to look after a lively child called Terry the Terror Terry Willers 1995 1995
Sort Out Squad Four kids , a cat and a parrot who would help people Robert Nixon 1995 1995
Chip - The Stone Age Boy John Dallas 1995 1995
Have-A-Go Jo David Mostyn 1997 1997
Camp Cosmos About an inter-galactic holiday camp . Also appeared in one annual John Geering 1997 1997
SYDD ( Sneaky , Yucky , Dump Dweller ) David Mostyn 1997 1997
Trash Can Alley Bob Dewar 1997 1997
Inspector Horse and Jocky About an inspector who was also a horse and his human sidekick and Jockey called Jocky . Title was a play on Inspector Morse Terry Bave 1999 2000
Tricky Dicky About a son of a joke shop owner who had plenty tricks up his sleeve . The strip 's main character had previously appeared in The Topper . A re-creation of the strip saw a new Tricky Dicky appear in the Beano in 2013 John Dallas 1999 2000
Gordon Bennet About a little boy who would drive his next door neighbour mad Jim Hansen 1999 2000
Space Kidette This strip was about an alien whose spacecraft crash-landed on Earth . Only two strips ever appeared and they were in the same issue . Its premise was similar to the later strip Zap Zodiac Robert Nixon 2002 2002
Phone-a-Fiend About of a group of monsters that were hired to scare troublemakers into changing their ways . A similar strip appeared in the 2011 Beano Annual entitled Fiends Reunited drawn by Nick Brennan Wayne Thompson 2002 2002
Dean 's Dino The character previously appeared as a regular comic strip in 1999 Geoff Waterhouse 2004 2004
Christmas Carole About a girl who wanted it to be Christmas every day . Previously appeared in The Beezer Book Keith Page 2005 2005
Hugh Dunnit About a boy detective David Mostyn 2005 2005
Mia Starr Duncan Scott 2006 2006
Scammin ' Sam Steve Horrocks 2006 2006
Uh Oh Si Co About a boy who 'd go berserk at the slightest negative comment Nigel Parkinson 2010 2010
Home Invasion About aliens who invade Earth David Sutherland 2010 2010
Granny Theft Auto About Grannies behaving badly Steve Beckett 2014 2014
List of Comic Idol runners-up
The following is a list of comic strips which appeared in The Beano during a Comic Idol or similar competition but did not win . Many of these strips appeared in annuals and Gordon Bennet went on to appear in The Beano a few years after coming runner up in a Comic Idol competition . Even though these strips did not win a Comic Idol competition many of them lasted longer than a number of other Beano comic strips such as Alf Wit which only lasted two issues . Phone-a-Fiend and Space Kidette are the only two strips on this list which appeared as one-offs . In 2014 , it was called Beanotown 's Got Talent .
Over the years The Beano has had many different strips ranging from comic strips to adventure strips to prose stories. However eventually the Beano changed from having all these different types of strips to having only comic strips. Prose stories were the first to go being phased out in 1955. Adventure strips were phased out in 1975 with the last adventure strip being General Jumbo however there have been unsuccessful attempts to reintroduce adventure strips with new series of Billy the Cat and Katie in 2003, 2005 and 2009. The longest running strip in The Beano is Dennis the Menace which has been running for over sixty years. Lord Snooty which first appeared in the first issue of the Beano and after having been discontinued and then brought back a number of times is the only strip currently in the comic to have appeared in the first issue. Other long-running strips include Biffo the Bear, Minnie the Minx, Roger the Dodger, The Bash Street Kids, Little Plum and Billy Whizz. Currently the Beano has been home to 371 different strips with a further seventeen strips appearing in Comic Idol competitions and not later appearing in the comic. This list only features strips in the weekly comic and does not list Strips which only appeared once. It also includes information about the Comic Idol winners, from 1995 to 2010.