Comic Idol

Comic Idol is a competition held in The Beano every few years. In it, 3 to 6 new strips (or old strips brought back), run as guest strips in Beano for a few weeks, and the most popular, determined by votes, gets a permanent place in the Beano (although often not lasting forever). See below for a full list of winners and the losing strips.

• Winners
• 1995: Vic Volcano (Robert Nixon/Trevor Metcalfe)
• 1997: Tim Traveller (Vic Neill)/Crazy for Daisy (Nick Brennan)
• 1999: The Three Bears (Mike Pearse)
• 2002: Freddie Fear (Dave Eastbury)
• 2004: Joe Jitsu (Wayne Thompson) /Colin the Vet (Duncan Scott)
• 2005: Zap Zodiac (Steve Horrocks)
• 2006: Nicky Nutjob (Kelly Dyson)
• 2010: Meebo and Zuky (Laura Howell)
• Loser
• 1995: S.O.S Squad (Robert Nixon) /Minder Bird (Terry Willers)
• 1997: Camp Cosmos (John Geering)/S.Y.D.D/Trash Can Alley/Have-a-go-Jo (John Geering, David Mostyn and Bob Dewar)
• 1999: Tricky Dicky (John Dallas)/Gordon Bennett (Jimmy Hansen)/Inspector Horse and Jocky (Terry Bave)
• 2002: Space Kidette (Robert Nixon)/Phone-a-Fiend (Wayne Thompson)
• 2004: Dean's Dino (Geoff Waterhouse)
• 2005: Hugh Dunnit (David Mostyn)/Christmas Carole (Keith Page)
• 2006: Scammin' Sam (Steve Horrocks)/Mia Starr (Duncan Scott)
• 2010: Home Invasion (David Sutherland)/Uh, Oh, Si Co! (Nigel Parkinson)

  The Beano
  Current strips	Ball Boy Bananaman The Bash Street Kids Beaginnings Biffo the Bear Billy Whizz Calamity James Dennis the Menace Gnipper Les Pretend Little Plum Lord Snooty Minnie the Minx Number 13 Beano Street The Numskulls Pansy Potter Pup Parade Rasher Roger the Dodger Tom, Dick and Sally Tricky Dicky
  Notable former strips	Baby Face Finlayson The Bash Street Kids - Singled Out Beaginnings The Belles of St. Lemons Big Eggo Billy the Cat Colin the Vet Colonel Crackpot's Circus Crazy for Daisy Danny's Nanny Derek the Sheep Fatty Fudge Freddie Fear Fred's Bed General Jumbo Gnasher's Bit(e) Gnasher's Tale Gnash Gnews Gordon Bennett Grandpa Hairy Dan Helpful Henry The Germs Ivy the Terrible Jack Flash Jimmy and his Magic Patch Joe Jitsu Joe King Johnny Bean from Happy Bunny Green Jonah Lord Snooty the Third The Magic Lollipops Maxy's Taxi The McTickles Meebo and Zuky Morgyn the Mighty The Nibblers Nicky Nutjob Olaff the Madlander Ping the Elastic Man Pirates of the Caribeano Ratz Robbie Rebel Richard the Lion Simply Smiffy Smudge Splodge Super School The Three Bears Tim Traveller Tin-Can Tommy Wee Ben Nevis Wee Peem Winnie the Witch Winston The Yeti with Betty Zap Zodiac
  Supporting characters	Bea Gnasher Gnipper Soppy Susan Walter the Softy Foo Foo
  See also	The Beano timeline Bash Street School Beanotown The Beano Annual Beano comic libraries BeanoMAX The Beano Summer Special List of Beano comic strips List of Beano comic strips by annual Beanotown Racing Dennis the Menace Annual The Magic Comic Fun Size Beano