Spitfire Silhouettes (on yellow) Caesar Popeye first appeared as an

Popeye first appeared as an incidental character in 1929 and stole the show

The Beano is of course also home to those other icons of British children's comic humour Dennis the Menace and Gnasher

from the pocket-sized Satan of the 1950s

They first appeared in 1959 and dozens of titles were written by René Goscinny and illustrated by Albert Uderzo until the death of Goscinny in 1977

A version of a Jazz age flapper

Spitfire Silhouettes (on yellow) Caesar Popeye first appeared as anHandmade screen print on cotton paper. Signed and numbered out of 200 in pencil by the printer, John Patrick Reynolds. Standard size: 26cm x 19cm Medium size: 48cm x 38cm Large size: 76cm x 56cm These are all original screenprints. An original print is a work of art printed by hand, from a plate, block, stone, or stencil (which is the case here screenprints are made using screen stencils) that has been created by the artist for the purpose of