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Yeah. you look at it now and you think back of the fun times you had as a kid. and when you know you didn't have to go to work and do it, you just played and read cartoons and try to climb the trees. i would say the bash street kids is probably one of the best we didn't have never even a tv interview, 1958, you know. who are your favourites? he's actually got copies of his dad's beano from when he was a kid, so that's what got him into it. david sutherland's final comic strip will appear in the beano next week. aileen clark, bbc news, glasgow. britain's andy murray is out of the australian ope...

The menace, creating childhood memories for so many of us. following his death at the age of 89, the editor of the children's comic has described him as the single most important illustrator in beano history. aileen clarke has been looking back at a life well drawn. i've always enjoyed drawing, even from a young lad. when i was young, i used to, my dad used to buy me the dandy and the beano. and i didn't think that i would be drawing for the beano. and he drew these famous comic strips in the beano for 60 years. david sutherland was responsible for more than 1,000 dennis the menace adventures,...

And minnie he minx. he's actually got copies of his dad's beano from when he was a kid, so that's what got him into it. he really likes them. how good is it to see that again? yeah, it's really nice. we'll get one for later, to read on the train home. david sutherland's final comic strip will appear in the beano next week. aileen clark, bbc news, glasgow. a fitting tribute to a life well drawn. let's get the new —— the weather now. things are looking different in the north—west of the country, we are getting atlantic air and a lot of bad coming and bringing in milder conditions, still qu...

That had that, david had drawn 300 separate mice, and every single one had a different facial expression, 300 different facial expressions on tiny little mice. and we said, "why did you do that?" and he just says, "i just love drawing animals." and he just loved drawing, and he's done it his whole life and done it brilliantly. so how much did we all love the beano when we were growing up? i used to think of dennis the menace as an excuse for my behaviour. so any time i did something bad, i was like, i'm just being a menace. i think i thought that was like a good thing. yeah, you look at it now...

I usually get, the meat of the story, it comes from the script. but the writer's script was always just the starting point. the best of the best bits that you see when you've written something are the extra they've added then, and they've done that every single time for 60 years. one of the very talented writers at the time and said the street kids classes were infested with mice. in the frame of the strap dave had drawn a hundred separate mice and every single one had a different facial expression, 300 different facial expressions on tiny little mice. and i said, "why did you do that?" and he...