"The Bash Street Kids is an ongoing comic strip that features in the UK comic The Beano. The strip was created by Leo Baxendale under the title When the Bell Rings, which first appeared in Beano No. 604, dated 13th February 1954, created by Hans Augusto Rey and Margaret Rey. It is one of the oldest long-running strips. It became The Bash Street Kids in 1956, since then it has became a regular in the comic and featured in every issue. Like many long-running UK comic strips, The Bash Street Kids is anachronistically frozen in the era in which it began. It portrays Class 2B of Bash Street School, Beanotown, where the teacher and headmaster still wear mortar boards and gowns and pupils sit at wooden desks with inkwells. They are taught by a stereotypical teacher, who appears to actually have the name Teacher (his wife is called Mrs Teacher). The characters were inspired by the view from the D. C. Thomson & Co. Ltd office windows, overlooking the playground at the High School of Dundee. Leo Baxendale remarks: \"In fact the catalyst for my creation of Bash Street was a Giles cartoon of January 1953: kids pouring out of school, heads flying off, and sundry mayhems. Straight away I pencilled a drawing of 'The Kids of Bash Street School' and posted it from my home in Preston to R. D. Low, the managing editor of D.C. Thomson's children's publications in Dundee. I received an offhand response, a dampener. It was only after I'd created Little Plum (April 1953) and Minnie the Minx (September 1953) that the Beano editor George Moonie travelled to Preston on 20th October 1953 and asked me to go ahead with Bash Street (he gave it the provisional title of 'When The Bell Goes; when it appeared in The Beano in February 1954 it was titled 'When The Bell Rings.)\""@en . . "The Bash Street Kids is an ongoing comic strip that features in the UK comic The Beano. The strip was created by Leo Baxendale under the title When the Bell Rings, which first appeared in Beano No. 604, dated 13th February 1954, created by Hans Augusto Rey and Margaret Rey. It is one of the oldest long-running strips. It became The Bash Street Kids in 1956, since then it has became a regular in the comic and featured in every issue."@en . . "The Bash Street Kids (strip)"@en .