The Woke Street Kids! The Beano's Fatty has been renamed Freddy to avoid offence – so the Mail's had a bash at an alternative cartoon strip – 28th of May 2021; CRAIG BROWN: Harrumph!

The Beano comic has been a staple of British childhoods since July 1938, with the antics of characters such as Dennis the Menace and Roger the Dodger adored by children everywhere.

But Beano creative director Mike Stirling was not fazed by the prospect of being branded “woke”. He said: “We have never seen that as a pejorative term. It’s awareness and being awake to ...

Woke Britain: Beano changes name of 65-year-old character Fatty to avoid offending readers ONE of The Beano's most beloved characters will no longer be known as "Fatty" to avoid offending readers.

Woke Beano Bingo In The Daily LITG, 15th September 2022. Published Thu, 15 Sep 2022 05:44:08 -0500 by Rich Johnston | Comments. Welcome to the Daily LITG.

Ex-Beano editor Euan Kerr argued all of 13 years ago, when joke was still a word and woke wasn’t, that the comic had become too PC and urged for a return to its anti-establishment roots.

You mean the accusations earlier this year, from Jacob Rees-Mogg, that the magazine, with its renaming of Fatty as Freddy, had become “comically woke”. Certainly not. The Beano is keeping with ...

The Beano transformed with new characters in bid to be more representative of modern world ... Mike Stirling, said The Beano was not afraid of being branded “woke” as a result of the changes.