• Bash Street Kids get ballet lessons
  • Bash Street Kids get ballet lessons
  • Bash Street Kids get ballet lessons
  • Bash Street Kids get ballet lessons
  • Bash Street Kids get ballet lessons
  • Bash Street Kids get ballet lessons

Bash Street Kids get ballet lessons

£48.00

The Bash Street Kids are promised ballet lessons. 

Hand-pulled screen print, printed one colour at a time with water-based inks.

The edition is limited to a maximum of just 200 prints.

The print is officially approved by the publisher, Britain's top comic publisher, DC Thomson of Dundee.

The paper is beautiful fine art paper, 300 gsm, mould-made, 100% cotton, milled at St Cuthbert's Mill in Somerset. It is acid-free and buffered with calcium carbonate (pH 7–9) for archival longevity. The paper has hand-torn and/or deckled (feathered) edges.

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

Format options:
Standard size: 26cm x 19cm
Medium size: 48cm x 38cm
Large size: 76cm x 56cm

© D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd.

The great thing about the Bash Street Kids is that there’s somebody for pretty much everybody to relate to: all humanity is there from tall skinny ones to shorter fatter ones.

And I love that many of their names are unabashedly direct: there’s Fatty, Spotty and Plug (ugly), just there would be in any classroom.

And for the record, as well as those three, the regular characters are: Danny, Erbert, Sydney, Smiffy, Toots, Wlfred and Cuthbert. And, of course, Teacher.

The strip, created by Leo Baxendale as When the Bell Rings, first appeared on 13 February 1954. The story became The Bash Street Kids in 1956.

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.

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