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For the fourth, and last, in our series on dream children's careers, Lucy Rodgers meets a woman who as a child fell in love with reading comics - and now draws them. Open the pages of The Beano and you will see the fruits of Laura Howell's labour. The 32-year-old cartoonist is behind the deceptively-named strip Johnny Bean from Happy Bunny Green, which she describes as "Asbos come to Trumpton", and has earned the title of the comic's first ever regular female artist. Laura, working from her Birmingham dining room, has the enviable daily task of thinking up, writing and drawing madcap adventures for Johnny and a host of other characters for a number of British comics, newspapers and magazines. So, is life as a cartoonist as much fun as it sounds? Skinit.com: Phone Skins, Laptop Skins, iPod Skins, Gaming Skins ... “Victorian Organ Command Desk,” located in the home of Bruce and Melanie Rosenbaum, Sharon, MA.