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Jonny Whizz
Not being a Dandy reader, I'm not especially familiar with Jamie's work, but having seen it I am impressed - the ideas in his strips are very funny and his artwork adds to the sense of madness.

..maybe they should show one page of The Dandy in The Beano each week for awhile..all those Beano readers only are missing out..

The IPC/Fleetway comics used to do something similar didn't they? Buster and Whizzer and Chips characters in one of the other comics?

Elsewhere, there is a raging debate on a free gift given away with a recent, current, or future edition of DANDY [please excuse all this boring and needless descriptions, only some of my comments on here recently have been 'scrutinized under a microscope', so to speak, resulting in this anorak-like approach I am using here, which is boring for me to write and presumably you to read]
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Anyway, back to basics: amongst DANDY'S undoubted delights is a free gift depicting the old fake 'knife-stuck-through-the-head' routine, which quite understandably has the Health and Safety brigade foaming at the mouth at such a proposal: it doesn't especially offend me, as it's too obviously an outrageous visual gag, which isn't likely to end in any real fatalities as a result: if it does, rest assured this will make good copy in the red-tops [the 'currant Bun', and the rest, to you!]

Lew Stringer wrote:The abbreviation to "comics" (instead of stories or comic strips) has been around for a few years now and is also used by Toxic, Doctor Who Adventures and other titles.

I'd say this is an almost direct parallel to the way in which Americans shortened 'Funny Pages' to 'The Funnies' when referring to newspaper strips. Of course it's all a bit odd as picture strips stopped being exclusively 'funny' or 'comic' long ago - just as books like Robinson Crusoe ceased to be 'novel'!

- Phil Rushton

Kept forgetting to say I'm enjoying seeing David Mostyn back in The Dandy with Disaster Chef..very appealing strip..

Look forward to the new strips next week..

Of the three issues in my local Sainsbury's this week, two of the three Dandy's big front page tops were really badly scrunched and torn.

With Harry Hill now in the Dandy for a few months, What are the chances of that other TV obbessed guy Charlie Brooker having a strip if the Harry ones end one day?

steven wrote:With Harry Hill now in the Dandy for a few months, What are the chances of that other TV obbessed guy Charlie Brooker having a strip if the Harry ones end one day?

Very slim I'd imagine, given that Charlie's show is not exactly family viewing. However, if he did appear in his own strip he could draw it himself as he used to be a regular contributor to Oink! back in the Eighties.

Finally got this week's Dandy yesterday (Asda's weren't damaged because they were on the back shelf, thus avoiding getting messed up with the rest of the comics) and it just had to happen sooner or later didn't it? Little Harry Hill!

Lew Stringer wrote:

steven wrote:With Harry Hill now in the Dandy for a few months, What are the chances of that other TV obbessed guy Charlie Brooker having a strip if the Harry ones end one day?

Very slim I'd imagine, given that Charlie's show is not exactly family viewing. However, if he did appear in his own strip he could draw it himself as he used to be a regular contributor to Oink! back in the Eighties.

He also did strips for a few videogame magazines in the 90's, a webcomic called something like "Super Kaylo" around 2000, strips in the TV Go Home book in 2001 etc.

I'm pretty sure he also did a strip in a short-lived Pog magazine in the 90's called Top Slammer (re-named to Pro Slammer after one issue!). Looked like his style anyway, but I only vaguely remember it. That was a bizarre publication, how much can you even write about pogs?

The same as you can about collecting anything I guess.

Just chipping in with another report from the chalkface (ie my Comic Art Masterclasses in schools) where The Dandy is increasingly recognised and popular.

Of the comics I scatter around the room, Harry Hill's Dandy is the most seized upon and copied-from. In fact if anyone's offering any off-sale copies that they'd like distributed to schoolkids (I'll keep dropping the hint, it can't hurt)...

This week's issue continues the high standard and, being the first I've bought in a few weeks, is the first time I've been able to read The Etherington Brothers' Yore strip up close. And, my, don't you need to get close? I needed my best glasses to be able to see it. Does it really need to be shrunk down that small? Couldn't you get two pages for the price of one out of that artwork (having seen Laurence's artwork up close i know he draws in ridiculously small detail, probably the only artist whose work doesn't need to be reduced for print).

And is this a first, the creators getting their names above the title of the strip? Imagine if we'd had that back in the day? Dudley D Watkins' Desperate Dan? Davy Law's Dennis The Menace. And I used to think I was pushing my luck smuggling mine into the background of every page.

Keep up the good work all.

Kev F

If you'd bought last week's Dandy, you wouldn't have enjoyed Yore as much in this week's - because they screwed up and printed the same episode two weeks in a row.

best cover of the new version so far

I agree
liked the rainy day gag in Harry Hill..

Daredevil Dad was good this week...
a baby in a washing machine!!

I'd like Harry and his hippo and Daredevil Dad both to win..

I hope Laura Howell can get a whole page in The Dandy as well..

Mr Meecher had a great twist as well..