Appearing between 2004 and 2011, Derek The Sheep is the Beano‘s first and only creator-owned strip.
In 2008, Bloomsbury published the first 13 Beano strips in a handsome book. It was also published in France by L’Edition de L’an 2, under the moniker Norbert Le Mouton. Derek’s book was chosen as Booktrust’s 2009 Booked Up Picture Book Option and listed as 1001 Comics You Must Read Before You Die.
In 2017 Gary reprinted a new edition of Derek The Sheep, as Derek The Sheep: Let’s Bee Friends, under his new imprint Bog Eyed Books. Further volumes will follow in 2018 and 2019, finally completing Derek’s acclaimed Beano run in book form.
[…] of the Dandy and it’s sister comic, The Beano, for little over a year now. My comic creation, Derek the Sheep, ran in the Beano and BeanoMax for 7 years and I drew Pinky’s Crackpot Circus for The Dandy […]