Popeye Doesn't Worry Bash Street Kids pop art The Beano is of course

The Beano is of course also home to those other icons of British children's comic humour Minnie The Minx

According to Thelwell's obituary in the Telegraph newspaper: “He created some of the most recognisable images in equine art with his cartoons of freckled girls being bounced along on their recalcitrant spherical ponies

My screenprints and greetings cards are based on drawings by the artist who invented Popeye and Olive Oyl

And of course he was a working-class hero – the phrase “The Tough of the Track” was a sort of pun – it referred to his humble background as much as his gritty determination in competition

like many of my panels and images

Popeye Doesn't Worry Bash Street Kids pop art The Beano is of courseHandmade screen print on cotton paper. Signed and numbered out of 200 in pencil by the printer, John Patrick Reynolds. Standard size: 26cm x 19cm Medium size: 48cm x 38cm Large size: 76cm x 56cm Popeye and Olive Oyl are an archetypal couple they are obviously attracted to each other, but they often fall out and row, often bitterly. Although the characters have been around for nearly 100 years, the way they behave seems quite modern. Heres a great