RIP David Sutherland. And Thank you!
Growing up as a kid I was always a daydreamer. I was not a keen reader until I found comic books. I loved reading every kind of comic book I could find. The Beano comic was easy to find everywhere you went. Every trip to the dentist meant sitting in a waiting room reading the Bash Street Kids. I loved the fun and excitement of the ‘Bash street Kids’ and ‘Denise the Menace’. They always got up to no good and got in trouble, it was a reflection of an age of innocence and being a kid. At the time I kind of hated the smell of comics and newsprint, but when I think back now I think of it fondly, and the happy daydreams of getting up to no good!
David started working in 1959 and had been drawing The Bash Street Kids since 1962, producing drawings nearly every single week in Beano for 60 years.
Nigel Parkinson, current Dennis, and Gnasher illustrator said: "He has touched the heart, tickled the funny bone, and amused the eyes of millions."
His wife, Margaret, said her husband "only put his pen down last month when he took ill". "Drawing was his life; it made us forget the age he was. He was getting older but we never noticed it," she added.
