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Aha, so Harry Hill isn't the big secret? Brilliant.

Now I'm excited again. And still guessing what the big twist will be.

Kev F

This morning, doing my Comic Art Masterclass, I opened with the question "who can name me a comic, or a comic strip, or a comic character?" and the first answer was "The Dandy". This never happens. I told them about Harry Hill. So if it isn't true, a class of year 5s in Wakefield... probably won't r...

National Comics Day, ah memories. None of you will remember, but I launched National Comics day in 1997 as a promotional device for the first National Comics Awards (presented by Jonathan Ross? Won by The Beano?) Talking of changing the subject back to the Dandy relaunch, I've been told on another f...

Possible ideas: - Campaign in schools to get kids into comics as a means of getting them reading (I'm really surprised DC Thomson haven't exploited this more) In case anyone's not aware, I already run a campaign in schools to get kids into comics as a means of getting them reading. It's called my C...

I'm hoping, probably beyond hope, that the top secret new ingredient is graphic novel type book collections.

Bet I'm wrong, it happens.

I made a fleeting and greatly enjoyable visit to BICS (Birmingham International Comics Show) this weekend, chatting to a handful of folks at Friday night's launch - good venue, good beer prices, we could hear ourselves talk, and I got a hotel room literally 100 paces from the bar - and on Saturday a...

The new website will be a million-times better than the current effort. I really hope the new Dandy and its website will integrate the two, and take the opportunity to make material available online. With decades of archive material, you could inspire a keen reader with something in the comic then ...

The 3 Bears strips appear to be computer coloured this time, whereas they would have been watercoloured by Mike the first time round. Why do you assume Mike Pearse water-coloured his strips? Most DC Thomson colouring has always been done in-house (not all of course). Good point. Because of the styl...

And they were colour the first time. The 3 Bears strips appear to be computer coloured this time, whereas they would have been watercoloured by Mike the first time round. I noticed this with the Halloween reprint last year too. So how did he used to deliver his art? As line art and as coloured art?...

Forgive me if this has been answered already, but are the Mike Pearse Three Bears strips reprints that have been recoloured, or are they new?

Kev F

I was long surprised that DC Thomson printed their own publications, and still printed them in Dundee, whereas almost every other publisher has been outsourcing their printing for generations. A publisher I was working for 20 years ago was getting their repro done in Hong Kong and printing in somewh...

Here's the story on the BBC:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/10278700.stm

Bad news for Dundee. See them try & fire me!

Hi comic fans, Kev F here, writer and artist for The Beano, Marvel and many more (see comicfestival.co.uk for details) Most of my Comic Art Masterclasses, where I can teach anyone how to write and draw comics, are in schools, open only to the pupils, but occasionally they are open for the public to ...

I am still working on getting a publisher to back my work as books in bookshops, with the serialisation of the strips happening online for free. It's really no different from serialised stories being in pulp magazines, newspapers or cheap comics. The idea was, from Dickens to the DFC, that the seria...

Sorry, you're right it certainly seems to be as full of pros as ever. I was wondering where one hears about it and where people talk about it in fevered anticipation? Clearly the big names still get their invites (though not, blub blub, me), and there was a good piece about it in Venue the local lis...