Dennis the Menace is a gift to the screenprinter: his spikey black hair and red-and-black jumper make for dramatic pictures. He is also an icon: one of Britain's most recognisable fictional characters - the British Bart Simpson or Tin Tin or Asterix - and so there's an extra power to the prints: classic images as they've never been seen before.

The Menace first appeared in The Beano (1938-present) in March 1951. His wild hair was there from the start, and his signature red and black jumper - a football strip - was introduced within a few weeks. Gnasher (the Abyssinian wire-haired tripe hound) joined him in 1968.

Gnasher - a wire-haired Abyssinian tripe hound - entered the scene on 31 August 1968. It is if he is made of the same stuff as Dennis's hair. And just as Dennis's hair symbolises the boy's wildness, so Gnasher is wild. His anthropomorphism is endearing, though.

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