Handmade screen print on cotton paper.

Initialled, numbered and dated in pencil by me, the printer, John Patrick Reynolds.

Standard size: 26 x 19cms

Medium size: 48 x 38cms

Large size: 76 x 56cms

Minnie the Minx, whose real name is apparently (and perhaps a little ironically) Hermione Makepeace, is one of The Beano’s main characters. She is a kind of girl version of Dennis the Menace – and even wears a similar striped jersey.

Despite her tendency to be a nightmare, and perhaps this is because I’m a bloke, I find she has a kind of winsome charm.

She first appeared in 1953, making her the third longest running Beano character, behind only Dennis the Menace and Roger The Dodger.

This is selected, like many of my panels and images, from the 1960s and 1970s, and should make a great gift to anybody who is into retro, vintage, old school design. I tend to choose material from this era because it was the time I was growing up and my tastes and preferences were being formed. But also it’s a pre-digital age, and the drawings are all made by hand rather than computer aided. Obviously, as I’m a screenprinter, I’m biased in favour of the handmade, so this style is right up my street. I hope it is yours.

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

Incidentally, the word beano is apparently short for "bean-feast" and means a feast, a celebration and a good time.

This screenprint has been officially approved by DC Thomson. I am the first and only screenprinter with permission to use the images of Dennis The Menace and Gnasher in my work.

© D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd.

Happy Gnasher