The title logo of Baxendale's "Bad Penny" strip featured a portrait of Penny and an illustration of a giant pre-decimal One Penny coin (the coin suggesting the connection with the proverb from which the character's name originated). Penny had some similarities with Baxendale's earlier Minnie the Minx character in "The Beano". When Baxendale had been drawing "Minnie the Minx", he had concentrated on experimenting with facial expressions and character traits. By the time he began working on "Bad Penny" his drawing style had matured, with an equal concentration on developing a zany but tight storyline, less emphasis on close-ups of facial expressions, but retaining the essentials needed to put over a character's own personality traits. When the strip was eventually dropped in "Smash!", Bad Penny herself still continued to appear, making occasional appearances in "The Swots and the Blots" as a new member of the Blots.