It was a brave venture though and I don't know how it could have survived on the newsstands. I often see parents in my local newsagent/off license loading up with booze but never see them treating their kids to anything other than a packet of sweets. The easy availability of alcohol on estates now (three off-licenses in my vicinity - and no, I don't drink at home) has produced a generation of p***-head parents who can barely read The Sun, never mind encouraging their kids to read anything beyond a crisp packet. In fact I seem to be the only person who buys comics from my local newsagents, - and 90% of the time I'm standing in line with The Beano or 2000AD behind parents reeking of booze who have come out for a "top up". And that's only during daylight hours.
I like your idea of Street Comic Kev. I'm just wondering how today's paranoid parents would react to someone trying to sell comics to kids in the street. Sounds like a nightmare, - and then presumably you'd have to get a street trader's license, and permission from each town council, who would probably want to vet each issue before you sold it - in meetings that would inevitably be postponed ('cos it's "only a comic" and other matters would take priority) thus ruining the momentum and losing readers.
Perhaps we'd be better off pooling our ideas to invent a time machine and go back to 1890 and set up Comic Cuts ? It's deja-vu all over again.
Lew
