I showed Ken's last work for Beano and Dandy here:
https://lewstringer.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/ken-reids-final-pages-for-beano-and.html
The page I'm showing today is a Roger the Dodger strip that appeared in The Beano No.1150, dated 1st August 1964, just two weeks before Ken's last Roger strip. There have been several great artists who have worked on the strip over the decades since Ken left, but I don't think anyone has quite captured that same sneaky, cheeky look in the same way that Ken did. After all, he designed the character and gave him that personality and "soul" so to speak.
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Talking about this post on facebook..we all got different opinions..
Ken reid and robert Nixon for me and frank second..its hard to choose...love to be able to read more 50's Beano's..
It often depends on the first version you saw I think. I remember noticing something was different and unsettling in mid-1964, and that's when Robert Nixon took over the strip. Even at five years old I could see the change in style, even though I might not have properly realised it was a change of artist. I soon warmed to Bob Nixon's work of course, and enjoyed many of his strips, but the edge that Ken brought to all of his characters had gone.
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