Ian GrayIan Gray.

Ian Robertson Gray (1938 to 2007) was a British comics writer and editor. Born on 31 March 1938 in Arbroath, Angus, Scotland, the son of a newspaper reporter for D. C. Thomson & Co., he joined the firm himself at the age of 17. Managing director R. D. Low assigned him to comics, working under editor George Moonie, where he immediately began writing scripts for three new cartoonists, Ken Reid (Roger the Dodger), Leo Baxendale (Little Plum, Minnie the Minx, The Bash Street Kids), and Davey Law (Dennis the Menace); in 1968 he co-created Dennis's dog Gnasher with Law.