Smudge and Number 13 by Alan Ryan

[Peter Gray]

Just to let Alan know I think its great his art and humour...

Does he have a website? On facebook? On comicsuk forum?



Would be intersting ehat he has done before...
anyone else enjoying his work..?

[Lew Stringer]

Would be intersting ehat he has done before...
anyone else enjoying his work..?

Here's his webcomic: http://www.faradaytheblob.com/

Good stuff!

[Peter Gray]

Thanks Lew

Just done a blog post on him also at the website you can join him on facebook I sent you an invite Lew and Spy (I think you'll like his work)

[big bad bri]

Glad to see smudge back & I actually prefer this art on number 13 than the original,Now if we could get someone to ghost the art style of the original on bananaman & roger the dodger & maybe ball boy at a push (though i do like it) the beano would be brilliant again,oh & bring back jonah.

[Hard Truths]

For some reason I thought Danny Diddly O'Donoghue was drawn by Nik Holmes (who drew Clown Wars for the 2011 Dandy). Kind of a huge missed opportunity to bring Fiddle O'Diddle back instead. They could have even had Tom Paterson draw it, given that he drew a few strips for the digital Dandy last year. Not every mini-strip has to be about celebrities! Although Ninja Nuns and Rubbish Robots don't seem to be - this is mostly just guesswork since I only have three issues since the revamp - there might be more, I don't know, sorry to Lew, Nigel and all the hardworking writers and artists on this forum and elsewhere if you feel that I insulted your work, because I certainly didn't mean to! Wow, that was a monster sentence, to quote Dead Homer Society, wasn't it? Chortle!

[AndyB]

I am pleased to note that the Beano appears to have ditched most of the celebrities, and they are reduced to one or two mini-strips, plus the pisstake of football commentators and managers in Ball Boy - the Numskulls have been focussing on Beano characters recently. Always worth a look at the real thing rather than your memories!

[stevezodiac]

Rather alarmed to see bad language above. Lets leave that sort of thing to Jonathan Ross.

[Peter Gray]

An example from his website...

[big bad bri]

I am pleased to note that the Beano appears to have ditched most of the celebrities, the Numskulls have been focussing on Beano characters recently. !

This is the perfect opportunity to bring back classic beano & dandy characters a different 1 every week, & see their numbskulls.

[Digifiend]

I am pleased to note that the Beano appears to have ditched most of the celebrities, and they are reduced to one or two mini-strips, plus the pisstake of football commentators and managers in Ball Boy - the Numskulls have been focussing on Beano characters recently. Always worth a look at the real thing rather than your memories!

Edd's back in the next issue. Found out from BeanoMaster, who must be a subscriber.
http://beanoforum.freeforums.org/the-nu ... -t826.html

[AndyB]

I know - I'm a subscriber too. Tomorrow's Beano has a sampler for the Diary of Dennis the Menace, and is £2 as usual.

[Peter Gray]

Its interesting that both characters were orginally by John Geering....wonder if Alan Ryan was a fan?

The Beano is so much better now lets hope it stays like this...celebraties now and again are fine...everyweek gets boring very quickly..

[AndyB]

What bothers me is that the focus has moved to old characters - which is great, but we are lacking in full page new characters.

[Gilly]

I agree there Andy. While it is nice to see The Beano bring back some old characters it should also continue to progress and freshen itself up by introducing new characters.

This will never happen again but imagine if Dennis, Roger, Minnie and Bash St hadn't have been introduced in the 50s, the comic wouldn't have the identity it has today and might not even still be going.

[Lew Stringer]

What bothers me is that the focus has moved to old characters - which is great, but we are lacking in full page new characters.

The Beano rarely stays still for long these days though, so who knows what will happen later? It's understandable that they'd focus on the core characters, and revive/refresh tried and tested classic ones, but I'm sure there will be new full page characters again at some point.

There's also the old truism about comics, - that for readers just starting to read The Beano all the characters are new.