Fred's Bed

Fred's Bed is a comic strip in the UK comic, The Beano. It originally appeared in The Topper. It first appeared in the Beano comic on April 7th 2007. It is about a boy who discovers that when he crawls under his bed, on purpose or by mistake, he enters a different world. Each strip ends up in a new place. It is a reprint from the merged The Beezer and Topper comic, beginning in issue one (the starting of the story, where Fred's mum buys the cheapest bed in the shop, but Fred doesn't like it). The strip was first drawn by David Parkins, and was often ghosted by Tom Paterson later on. Lew Stringer drew a new strip for the comic's Christmas 2007 issue along with Ken H. Harrison who drew Fred's Bed the game!. Fred has distinctive blonde hair with what appears to be a hook on top, as does his mother, except she has it longer around the sides. When he was a baby, it merely consisted of the hook. Fred's father has never appeared. Fred has notable bad grammar, for instance he changes words ended in '-ing' to '-in', e.g. 'I'm goin' under me bed for a while.'The reprints last appeared in issue 3340, after being replaced by Olaff the Madlander, a reprint of fellow Beezer and Topper strip, Adrian the Barbarian. However, a brand new Fred's Bed story appeared in the 70th birthday Beano, issue 3343, in which Fred met Nick Park, creator of Wallace & Gromit, and the two explored the history of the comic (somewhat ironic, since Fred had actually originated in the Beezer and Topper, and not the Beano). [http://news.sky.com/sky-news/content/StaticFile/jpg/2008/Jul/Week4/15059386.jpg] It was since revealed on Beano No. 3407 that his surname was MacDonald. This new strip was drawn by David Sutherland. Fred is in the Beano Annual 2009 drawn by Ken H. Harrison.