Singled Out was a
comic stripA comic strip is a sequence of drawings arranged in interrelated panels to display brief humor or form a narrative, often serialized, with text in balloons and captions....
in the
UKThe United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
comic
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. It first appeared in issue 3226, dated 15 May 2004, drawn by Mike Pearse.
Based on
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, Singled Out focuses on one character each week and builds a one-page story around them. The first strip was about Fatty. Mike Pearse has also included other Beano faces in his strips such as
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,
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and The Three Bears.
Pearse drew the strip until mid 2007, when the job was given to
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and then
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. David Sutherland also drew a single strip. Paterson's trademark background images, such as the randomly-positioned socks, are often included. The bottom left-hand corner of the page no longer shows which character the strip is focused on. Some strips mentioned which character was being featured in the header, but others didn't provide any information on this. After the 2009 Bash Street Kids annual (Space Cadets) was published, Paterson's work on Singled Out was changed to be more like Pearse's style, where before it was akin to David Sutherland's style, while
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drew it in the Beano's sister comic,
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. Several of the early Mike Pearse stories were reprinted in the 2010 Bash Street Kids annual. The strip appeared on an increasingly less regular basis in 2009 and has since ended.