David Sutherland OBE (4 March 1933 – 19 January 2023) was a Scottish illustrator and comics artist with DC Thomson, responsible for The Bash Street Kids (1962–2023),[2] Dennis the Menace (1970–1998), Fred's Bed (2008–2012) for The Beano, and the second version of Jak for The Dandy in the early 2000s.

Sutherland started out as an adventure strip artist, drawing strips such as The Beano's The Great Flood of London in 1960–61 (reprinted in Classics from the Comics in 2007) and Billy the Cat (see[3]), before replacing Leo Baxendale as the artist for The Bash Street Kids, who were given the two pages in the centre of the comic at the same time.

He also replaced Dudley D. Watkins on Biffo the Bear after his death in 1969, and continued to draw the character through the 1970s, after his strip relinquished that cover of the comic to Dennis in 1974.

Sutherland began to draw The Germs for the comic in 1988, although in the early 1990s he was replaced by Vic Neill.

[4] Sutherland was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2023 New Year Honours for services to illustration.