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Mike Stirling biography

Mike Stirling is a children’s writer connected with Beano Studios, where his role is Director of Mischief. In 2023 he wrote a publishing-industry comment piece about children’s comic books, titled “Funny comics are no joke”.

His Beano work includes illustrated children’s fiction for primary-age readers. Beano Dennis & Gnasher: Attack of the Evil Veg, written with Beano and Craig Graham, is a Dennis & Gnasher adventure about giant carnivorous vegetables taking over Beanotown and was published as a Kindle edition on 28 April 2022.

The Day The Teachers Disappeared, written with Beano and Craig Graham, is a Beano Fiction Pick Your Own Story title in which the reader becomes the main character at Bash Street School. The Kindle edition was published on 4 January 2024, and the paperback edition was published on 12 March 2024 with Vivian Truong as illustrator.

Stirling also worked with Beano, Craig Graham and illustrator Laura Howell on Beano: Minnie and the Viking Voyage, a Minnie the Minx adventure involving Denys, Dennis’s Viking ancestor; the Kindle edition was published on 5 June 2025.