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Hi Guys,

I've been keeping a keen eye on sites like Amazon & Play to see when the covers for the 2010 annuals would appear... and here they are! Same date as last years post!

Nice new cover style for the 'Classics' Beano/Dandy book- good idea to use the old logos. Ditto for the Oor Wullie/Broons Classic book. And the Dandy cover- is that Ken H, or somone ghosting him? I thought Jamie Smart would be doing the cover- in fact I thought he said he already had done it... unless that was for 2011 given how far ahead this stuff is done, but I thought he said it was for 2010.... Or is it NP? Something looks a little NP-like... Or am I completely wrong?

Anyway, enjoy & discuss!







Ross

Sharp eyed rossmac!

I would have loved to have seen another mike pearse led bash st kids annual, ran out of strips prob! Looking good and the dandy hasn't added the xtreme yet which is a nice bonus! Also ken harrison doing the cover rather than jamie smart which is probrably to keep dan familiar for parents buying for kids

NOT sharp-eyed Steve Henderson.
The DANDY annual is just that, not a Dandy Xtreme annual. Largely strips throughout and all the various styles.

Very nice covers.like The Dandy cover by NIGEL
and the bash street kids by Tom P..they are all good..

Sharp-eyed Peter Gray! (Can't keep this up all day!)
Bash Street is by David Parkins, though, Beano by Jimmy Hansen.

Notice though there's no Dennis annual there? Any ideas?

Blimey - Christmas Annuals in July! It's a sign the nights are drawing in already!!!

That's a very stylish Winter Games cover (and the Broons/Oor Wullie one isn't too shabby either). In fact they remind me a bit of the excellent archival volumes of American strips published by Fantagraphics; they certainly seem to be aimed at a more adult audience than previously. Now if only they go on to produce high quality collections of classic characters in a similar format to the Prince Valiant and Tarzan books - preferably beginning with Ken Reid's 'Jonah' !

- Phil Rushton

Is it the first week in September already? My how time flies!
The cover of the Classics book looks remarkably subdued, Maybe its just the inside title page their showing.
BTW the elongated Broons strip on the cover of Broons/Oor Wullie book was the last Broons strip that Dudley Watkins ever drew.

Two with but a single thought Phil. Obviously a generational thing.
All this talk of 'The Complete Jonah' by Ken Reid has set me thinking as to how many strips that would actually involve. That being the case if I get the time this weekend I'll have a check through the whole Jonah canon 1958-1963 and let you all know next week.

Sorry Nigel! I'm viewing this thing on my blackberry and so the screen is very small and I only recognised the style and not the artist! Nice work have you done dan inside as well? Anyway must dash I'm off to buy some specs!!

I mentioned the xtreme thing cos I thought a few people may have been expecting this year to see the dandy annual with a massive xtreme on it

I don't really like the Beano annual cover. The sound effects look bad (they don't seem to quite 'fit'), and I'm not convinced Jimmy Hansen is the best artist to do the cover. Minnie's face looks wrong! I think the overall effect doesn't work and comes across as strange. This won't be a vintage cover (think 1972 with Biffo as the lollipop man for example).

However, I do like the David Parkins cover for The Bash Street Kids book, and NP has done a very good job (as usual) on the Dandy annual cover. David Parkins always did excellent covers, and I'm surprised NP hasn't done more. Also pleasing to see no mention of Xtreme!

NP wrote:Sharp eyed rossmac!

Funny you should say that because it was the eyes that gave it away! The guy bottom left, his eyes reminded me of Coachie from Owen Goal! Still, a great looking cover!

Kashgar wrote:The cover of the Classics book looks remarkably subdued, Maybe its just the inside title page their showing.

You might be right about this, although I'd love it to be the cover! But if you look at the bottom left there is part of another snowman character that you might imagine would continue onto the inside front cover (ie: left hand side of the endpapers)... Even if this is so, hopefully the old style logos are still used on the cover as that's a nice touch

Regards,
Ross

nice to see the Mr Men back with an annual.though based on the tv series not the books!!



what a strange cover...another annual series that has continued for a long time..
the 74th annual


Gerry Anderson's Century 21 Annual 2010 (Annuals) by Gerry Anderson and Chris Bentley (Hardcover - 30 Sep 2009)


no Dennis annual.probably next year......with the new tv series coming soon..

No Dennis annual? What's going on here? I thought they'd ditch the Bash Street one before the Dennis annual,as Dennis has had his longer. Maybe they've become biannual. If so though, I think they should go back to calling them Books.

Looks like new uniform branding for Beano/Dandy and Broons/Oor Wullie annuals. They probably ditched the 70 Years brand because technically, The Dandy didn't make it, as it went Xtreme a few months beforehand, and thus, is no longer a traditional weekly humour comic (in fact, Beano is the last of the genre). The use of Golden Age also harks back to the first book of what was then the Dandy/Beano series, Fifty Golden Years, a name which was adopted as the umbrella brand up until The Comics at Christmas in 1997. I'd like to know who drew the snowmen cover, as it's good ghosting of Dudley Watkins (Dan, Biffo, Snooty), David Law (Dennis), Leo Baxendale (Minnie), and James Crighton (Korky).

How come the annual covers are being revealed so early anyway, we usually don't see them for another six weeks.