Beau Peep is a comic strip published in the British newspaper The Daily Star, written by Roger Kettle and drawn by Andrew Christine. It was first published on 2 November 1978. It features the eponymous lead character, Beau Peep, a French legionnaire in North Africa. This article is about the comic strip, the sequential art form as published in newspapers and on the Internet. ... The Daily Star is a British tabloid newspaper. ... November 2 is the 306th day of the year (307th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 59 days remaining. ... 1978 (MCMLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1978 calendar). ... The French Foreign Legion (French: Légion Étrangère) is a unique unit within the French Army established in 1831. ...  Northern Africa (UN subregion)  geographic, including above North Africa or Northern Africa is the northernmost region of the African continent. ...

See also

• Beau Geste

Beau Geste is one of the most re-made stories of all time, with three movie versions released in 1926, 1939, and 1966, as well as a television mini-series in 1982 and a 1977 parody, the aptly named The Last Remake of Beau Geste starring Marty Feldman and Michael...

External links

• Information on the strip
• http://www.beaupeep.com/
• Interview with Roger Kettle