nurses in england and ambulance staff in england, wales and northern ireland are planning more strike days in february and march. for decades, david sutherland illustrated the beano s bash street kids and dennis 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 a thousand dennis the menace adventures, and he d drawn the bash street kids every week from 1962 to last month.
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 he d drawn the bash street kids every week from 1962 to last month. i usually get, the meat of the story comes from the script. but the writer s script was always just the starting point. the bits that are the best bits that you see when you ve written something are the extra bits that david added in, and david did that every single time for 60 years. one of the very talented writers at the t
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 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 other activities, you just played and read cartoons and tried to climb the trees. i would say the bash street kids is probably one of the best ones. we didn t cell phones and all that stuff. we didn t have a tv until 1958, you know. so all those things were good for us, you know, for the yo
if they are able to meet demand. the point of them is to make the system really accessible, to make it easy not to go to a&e. and if that s not what is happening, then that s obviously a major problem. nhs england said it had made £7 million available to local areas to improve their crisis lines. for hannah, if crisis lines are to improve, staff must have the time to speak to patients with compassion. you shouldn t have to be at absolute rock bottom to get decent care and to be spoken to like an actual human being. adam eley, bbc news. for decades david sutherland illustrated the beano s bash street kids and dennis
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 said, ijust 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.