MINNIE - 65 Years of Minxing! 2018 magazine celebrating 65 years of Beano icon Minnie the Minx. She was created by Leo Baxendale and Georgie Moonie (who was Beano editor from 1938 to 1939 and 1946–1959, d. 2002). Her strip originally appeared in black and white but letters from Moonie to Baxendale show that it was planned she would adopt the red and black colour scheme of Dennis the Menace should the strip be popular enough to move to the colour pages.
Baxendale (1930-2017) worked for The Beano up until 1964. His other main strips for the title were Little Plum, The Bash Street Kids and The Three Bears. His initial replacement on Minnie was Jim Petrie (1932-2014) who, I think, was the longest running artist on the strip and the one I would have been most familiar with.
DC Thomson.
