As far as I'm aware, Roger, The Beano is still running weekly (confirmed by Wikipedia, so it must be true!). You may be confusing it with Beano Max, the monthly spin-off which has recently ceased production after six and a half years.
The Dandy launched an online version after the print one ended on its 75th birthday last year, but I understand it is now also terminal. I fear The Beano may not be far behind. Many of the current cartoonists are now struggling to stay full time, or even part time in the industry, sadly.
It's very sad for me. Like Roger, I started my working life as a DC Thomson sub-editor, aged 18, one week out of school, hired as the office junior on the Beano itself (I had no idea until that first day I was about to start a career in comics, and actually thought I was about to become a cub reporter on one of their newspapers, arriving with brand new trench-coat in readiness). Four days later, I wrote my first script, had it passed unaltered, on its way to being read by over a million people. Can't describe the kick that gave me. Another week later and I found myself with the responsibility of writing four weekly strips for the biggest-selling comic in the UK. 18 months later, I was asked to move out, to become part of a 2-man think tank charged with creating a brand new comic. This eventually turned out to be Nutty comic, and my very first task on day one was to come up with a superhero character we called Bananaman.
Four and a half years later, I quit, walking out on a Friday that was to be my last day as a sub-editor, only to return the following Monday with my first pencil sketch as a freelance cartoonist, and continuing to work for DC Thomson on and off for the next 30 years.
I vividly recall going for a 'slap up feed' (comic talk) to celebrate the Beano's 40th anniversary, just a few months after I started working there, and feeling like a right fraud, having only just stepped in the door of a four decade history. It's rather surreal for me to think that I've now been working for both the Beano and Dandy for more than half their lives, not to mention two thirds of my own.
I used to think it would be a grand exit to go out like the great Dudley D. Watkins, who died at his drawing board, half way through a Beano page. I never for one moment thought I'd actually outlive either of the Big Two comics. With one down, no bets are being taken!
