Guardian article: The Dandy Faces Closure

[booksandcomics]

Woops! Sorry, yes I meant WWE! I had no idea that they edited both! I just recall seeing one Xtreme with wrestling on the cover and was appalled!

[Digifiend]

Good point Raven, I am very biased with my opinions as I still collect them! As they've gone through a rebrand again, ditching Harry Hill etc, they've gone full circle, back to have Dan on the cover.

TV Burp ended, Harry changed agents, and the Dandy was presumably paying Harry a fee that was no longer justifiable in light of falling sales. It's no coincidence that the number of reprints have increased recently as well.

Grrr, dragged Joss around 3 newsagents and 3 supermarkets but not a copy to be seen, will have to try again in London tomorrow. On the plus side it means that people have been out and bought the lot!

I hope that's the case.
http://www.facebook.com/groups/48701980 ... p_activity

[Gilly]

I think there've been some misguided editorial decisions, but they've invested a lot of time, effort and money in the comic, really (if not on the online front). They could have pulled the plug after the Xtreme bombed, but they did a big revamp, paying for prominent placement in newsagents nationwide (places aren't astocking it now because it didn't sell, not the reverse), and filling it with new comic material. And well over a year after 50% of its readers left it, it's still here. I doubt many publishers would have stuck by a title with such loyalty.

I guess you are right Raven, apologies for my comment I guess I'm just angry that a huge part of my childhood is dying.

[Digifiend]

Even Comedy Central is reporting the news!
http://www.comedycentral.co.uk/news/des ... ob-search/

[booksandcomics]

Even Comedy Central is reporting the news!
http://www.comedycentral.co.uk/news/des ... ob-search/

What a great funny article! I've tweeted it @booksandcomics! It also raises a great question, using a blow torch for shaving, what would Desperate Dan use to wipe his bum?

[dandy mad]

The Dandy Xtreme was a vile misrepresentation of a comic that should not have crawled out of DCT planning dept tbh

[Digifiend]

I think they've practically admitted that themselves. The only good thing to come out of it was Jamie taking over Dan.

[booksandcomics]

The Independent have some great funny ideas on how to save the Dandy!
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-enter ... 46646.html

[dandy mad]

it seems to be selling well as I went to WHSmith on the way home from work and they had none left where usually they've got a load of them there so the save the Dandy campaign seems to be working and does downloading it onto my iPad count?

[booksandcomics]

Leaving work now, going on a mission to find a copy!

[booksandcomics]

Managed to get a copy! Disgusted with WH Smiths in Stafford for saying to me "Oh no, we don't stock that anymore"!!!!!

Picked up mine from Tescos.

[dandy mad]

The Dandy Xtreme was a vile misrepresentation of a comic that should not have crawled out of DCT planning dept tbh

The idea behind Xtreme probably wasn't a bad one (go fortnightly, bag with lots of gifts and cover movies, tv and games) but I feel it was incredibly poorly executed.

The whole thing was just nasty to look at, and some of the features looked as if they had been put together in five minutes.

If the Dandy were to continue, it would probably be sensible to reduce frequency, bag it with gifts and include good quality features alongside the strips.

Monthly? with cheap and nasty plastic rubbish isn't the way forward is it? The Dandy shouldn't be put in a plastic bag it wasn't born in a plastic bag and shouldn't die inside one either IMHO

[starscape]

Do you really think they would have tried Xtreme if the Dandy wasn't in trouble? Everything DCT have done, from Jak, to Xtreme, to Harry Hill have all been to try to bring up circulation figures to a level that would allow it to survive. DCT didn't want it to die in a plastic bag, they wanted it to thrive and grow.

The Dandy was as distributed as much the Beano, in the same way as Jet was to the Victor. If no-one's buying it, then shops won't stock it. Shops aren't turning down a gold mine. Enthusiasm from a small number or nostalgia from crowds that don't buy comics aren't worth much I'm afraid.

Hinting at the closure is the last throw of the dice. I hope it works but I'm not holding my breath. Best of luck Dan, Korky and the rest.

[dandy mad]

With it only selling 8,000 copies a week like it says in the press (is this figure accurate?) then there is a very good excuse to stop producing it as DCT can't be making much money out of it seems like the publishers have made their minds up about it's future and the future looks very bleak for The Dandy.....

[stevezodiac]

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