Having a right old beano

Horace Panter made his name as a musician with ska legends The Specials. But as a new series of comics celebrating the Beano’s 80th anniversary proves, he’s a dab hand with the brush as well as the bass, writes Gillian Nelis

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It was, Horace Panter reckons, a very Beano moment.

The publishers of the legendary British comic had asked him to produce a series of artworks marking its 80th birthday, and had given him carte blanche to do so. The spirit of irreverence ...