This weeks Dandy

[Digifiend]

Must be this guy...
http://nigelparkinsoncartoons.blogspot. ... -this.html

And the new cover design is permanent. Looks like they're about to put the issue number back on the cover.
http://nigelparkinsoncartoons.blogspot. ... dandy.html

[Lew Stringer]

Makes sense to use a box logo as the left hand edge of a comic is often the only bit visible on the ever-shrinking display area in shops.

[swirlythingy]

I do hope it isn't permanent, because absolutely no effort has been made to integrate it with the style of the rest of the comic - it clashes horribly and feels hastily pasted-on. Opening it up feels as if you've picked up an entirely different publication. Even all the logos used in various places which aren't the masthead haven't been changed, nor were the templates designed with room to accommodate the new shape.

Either the cover design should be reverted or at least modified to be more sympathetic to the stylebook (preferred option) or the inside pages should be changed to match.

[Digifiend]

I wonder what Nigel thinks about being called "Can't-park-inson"?

[rossmac]

I wonder if this is simply a "summer schools holidays" front cover, and then we'll revert back to the other one?

I don't mind the 'new' cover logo and layout, but would love to see versions of it with Dan and Bananaman etc also... Although to be honest I still love the logo and cover style that we did have that started with the revamp, so I am hoping for a return to that!

Ross

[Lew Stringer]

I do hope it isn't permanent, because absolutely no effort has been made to integrate it with the style of the rest of the comic - it clashes horribly and feels hastily pasted-on. Opening it up feels as if you've picked up an entirely different publication. Even all the logos used in various places which aren't the masthead haven't been changed, nor were the templates designed with room to accommodate the new shape.

Either the cover design should be reverted or at least modified to be more sympathetic to the stylebook (preferred option) or the inside pages should be changed to match.

Does it really matter that the cover logo doesn't match the tiny use of the previous logo on the subscription page? Does the lack of consistency on such a small scale really affect anyone's enjoyment of the comic? Perhaps it'll be changed inside too eventually. If not, no big deal. Both logos are similar anyway.

The logos of the Summer Specials and Dandy Books used to change every year. The logos inside would be different from those of the covers. No one cared that they didn't mimic the comic logo. Ads for The Dandy didn't always match the comic logo. It didn't matter and the comics sold hundreds of thousands.

On his blog Nigel Parkinson shows us an advance copy that's several weeks away from appearing, and it uses the new logo too, so it appears it's here for the duration of the taller summer issues at least.

http://nigelparkinsoncartoons.blogspot. ... dandy.html

[Digifiend]

Lew, I already mentioned that blog post.

And the new cover design is permanent. Looks like they're about to put the issue number back on the cover.
http://nigelparkinsoncartoons.blogspot. ... dandy.html

[Lew Stringer]

Lew, I already mentioned that blog post.

And the new cover design is permanent. Looks like they're about to put the issue number back on the cover.
http://nigelparkinsoncartoons.blogspot. ... dandy.html

Well that's me told then.

[swirlythingy]

Does it really matter that the cover logo doesn't match the tiny use of the previous logo on the subscription page? Does the lack of consistency on such a small scale really affect anyone's enjoyment of the comic? Perhaps it'll be changed inside too eventually. If not, no big deal. Both logos are similar anyway.

It's not so much the logo I mind, but the whole style - the fonts, the shapes, the colour scheme, the backgrounds, the pictures, the layout, everything - which is all much more immediately noticeable. The old cover design matched the inside pages perfectly, but the new one makes no effort to. (The presence of the old logo is just a more tangible fact which it's easy to point to by way of example.)

I'm not disputing that the logos on the summer specials and annuals changed every time, but this was (a) established practice, (b) every time, rather than unpredictably and (c) didn't, to the extent permitted by this somewhat different medium, mismatch the content inside.

The Beano has taken up varying its logo occasionally as well, to match the theme of that week's cover (the bat symbol one being the most obvious), but the rest of the layout stays constant, so that it doesn't, at first glance, appear to be an entirely different comic. Temporary variation is good, but it can't be compared to a sudden and apparently permanent complete change.

As I suggested above, I wouldn't have minded so much if the new style had been applied anywhere else in addition to the cover. The jarring style clash, and sense of a job left undone, looks highly amateurish.

Even if it was finished properly, I think I'd still prefer the old style. Oversized title banners aside, by and large, the Dandy's post-revamp design was one of both the best and most consistently applied ones I'd seen, and I don't think the new cover design lives up to those high standards.

[Lew Stringer]

It's not so much the logo I mind, but the whole style - the fonts, the shapes, the colour scheme, the backgrounds, the pictures, the layout, everything - which is all much more immediately noticeable. The old cover design matched the inside pages perfectly, but the new one makes no effort to. (The presence of the old logo is just a more tangible fact which it's easy to point to by way of example.)

The cover is a parody of the sort of gossip mags the readers parents might read. The joke would wear a bit thin if it was like that throughout the comic.

I'm not disputing that the logos on the summer specials and annuals changed every time, but this was (a) established practice, (b) every time, rather than unpredictably and (c) didn't, to the extent permitted by this somewhat different medium, mismatch the content inside.

It was unpredictable the first time they did it.

Incidentally, there's a tiny cover preview of next week's issue (and The Beano) in today's Sunday Post.

[Digifiend]

In what form? Article? Advert?

[stevezodiac]

There is a row of thumbnail images at the bottom of the the Beano and Dandy strip pages used to illustrate subscriptions for various DCT publications.

[Digifiend]

That's odd then. You'd think they'd just use the same back issues the website uses for that. Then they wouldn't need to update it every week.

[NP]

I wonder what Nigel thinks about being called "Can't-park-inson"?

Yeah. Someone ought to ask him what he thinks.

[Lew Stringer]

That's odd then. You'd think they'd just use the same back issues the website uses for that. Then they wouldn't need to update it every week.

Where's the fun in that?