parkinson is the official artist for dennis the menace in "the beano". his career in comics began in 1980. over the following twenty years he worked for many british publishers including for example fleetway drawing thunderbirds, stingray, scouse mouse and others, bbc magazines drawing strips based on tv shows like "grange hill", "baywatch", and as a 'ghost' artist for many titles published by d.c. thomson. his first work for "the dandy" was in 1982; his first work for "the beano" was in 1997. he started drawing bea in october 1998. parkinson also occasionally draws the bash street kids, and was particularly active on that strip between 1999 and 2001. he also ghosted mike pearse's style for the spin-off strip singled out in beanomax.