Grandpa was a fictional character in a comic strip in the UK comic The Beano, about a mischievous old man with a beard (although he did not appear to be anybody's actual grandfather, as such). A comic strip is a sequence of drawings that tells a story Currently in the Western world, most comic strips are written and drawn by a Comics artist The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located A comic book (often shortened to simply comic and sometimes called a comic paper or comic magazine) is a Magazine or Book of narrative The Beano comic is a long-running British children's comic, published by D It started in issue 680, dated 30 July 1955, and was originally drawn by Ken Reid. Events 1419 - First Defenestration of Prague. 1502 - Christopher Columbus lands at Guanaja in the Bay Islands off Year 1955 ( MCMLV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1955 Gregorian calendar) Ken Reid ( 18 December 1919 - 2 February 1987) was a British comic artist and writer It re-appeared in The Beano in the early 1970s, drawn by Robert Nixon for the first few years, after which Jimmy Glen was the artist until the strip ended in 1984. This article is about the Decade 1970-1979 For the Year 1970 see 1970. Robert Nixon ( 7 July 1939 - 22 October 2002) was an artist who worked on several British comics. Year 1984 ( MCMLXXXIV) was a Leap year starting on Sunday (link displays the 1984 Gregorian calendar)
Some of the stories involved his dad, an even older man with a longer beard. Despite their advanced ages, they enjoyed a father-son relationship similar to that of Dennis the Menace and his dad; a typical story would involve Grandpa getting involved in some kind of mischief, being caught by his father and ending up getting a spanking. Dennis the Menace (known as Dennis the Menace and Gnasher since 1970 is a long-running Comic strip featured in The Beano In a June 1956 strip, Grandpa was revealed to have been born in 1874, making his age 82. Year 1956 ( MCMLVI) was a Leap year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1874 ( MDCCCLXXIV) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common