Comics UK

Hi I am a person from Norway that are writing an essay about comics and for this essay I am going to analyse comics from the UK and the USA. I will look at themes and stuff like that. But I was wondering if anyone could tell me a typical UK comic. By this i mean that I could ask a person on the streets about it and they would know what I am talking about.

Please reply, would be a very helpful

I guess the ones with most people might have an inkling would be:

Beano (traditional humour)
Dandy (traditional humour)
Girl (girls)
Bunty (girls)
Mandy (girls)
Eagle (boys)
TV Comic (though get confused and refer to TV21 and TV Action as a 'TV Comic')
and possibly 2000AD, as this has run for nearly 30 years but is more niche SF now than mainstream as it was in the 1980s

These are some ones that are a little different.

Viz (adult humour)
Oink! (Older child humour)
Acne (Teenage humour)
BIG comic (collection of traditional humour)

Beezer (traditional humour)
Topper (traditional humour)
Sparky (traditional humour)
Cracker (over the top humour)
Plug (even more over the top humour)
Classics from the Comics (collection of traditional humour)
Buzz (traditional humour)
Fun Size Beano and Fun Size Dandy (traditional humour - some reprints [has anyone noticed if there really IS a BSK special or did they not remove it whilst reprinting?])
Buster (traditional humour)
Big One (reprinted traditional humour)
Whizzer and Chips (traditional humour)
Cheeky (over the top humour)
Cor!! (traditional humour)
School Fun (traditional humour)
Shiver and Shake (traditional humour with creepy chararcters)
Giggle (traditional humour)
Beano Comic Library [special] (traditional humour)
Dandy Comic Library [special] (traditional humour)
Beano Summer special (traditional humour)
Dandy Summer special (traditional humour)
Topper Summer special (traditional humour)
Beezer Summer special (traditional humour)
Buster Holiday special (traditional humour)
Bash Street Kids Summer special (traditional humour)
Whizzer and Chips Holiday special (traditional humour)
Shiver and Shake Holiday special (traditional humour)
Cor!! holiday special (traditional humour)

Here's a "few"

Conor B wrote:Buster (traditional humour)

Not forgetting Buster began as and Adventure/Humour comic.

blyant wrote:But I was wondering if anyone could tell me a typical UK comic. By this i mean that I could ask a person on the streets about it and they would know what I am talking about.

Please reply, would be a very helpful

If you're focusing on existing comics of today, the one everyone knows is The Beano. If you're looking into the history of traditional UK comics then the various sections of this Comics UK website will be very useful for you. Good luck!

Lew

'Look-In' was also very popular in the 1970s and 1980s, and a fair slice of the general public would know it.

The problem I have with Magnet's and Conor's lists is I don't think the man/woman in the street would know 'Acne', 'BIG', 'Cracker', 'Buzz', 'Big One' or 'Giggle', and we're now so far past the prime of the other titles, most would be vague memories - if that - to others.

I'm curious, Blyant, in what you hope to question 'a person in the street' about... are you going to do a survey or something? When all is done with the thesis, I think the end product might be of interest to the members here.

First let me say thank you to everybody that replied to this topic.
The reason why i said a guy on the streets was because i wanted a comic that would be 100% british and to be that a british person would have to know about it (or something like that )

blyant wrote:First let me say thank you to everybody that replied to this topic.
The reason why i said a guy on the streets was because i wanted a comic that would be 100% british and to be that a british person would have to know about it (or something like that )

The Beano and The Dandy are probably the comics best suited to your needs. Launched in the late Thirties and still going, they (particularly Beano) demonstrate the "traditional" British comic. There's no doubt lots of info on the net all about them.

Lew

As Lew is one of the contributors to UK comics, there is little to add as The Beano and The Dandy are the two that everybody will know and are still going strong.

The only others that Brits will still remember are those that were character-led such as Roy Of The Rovers, Dan Dare (of Eagle fame) or Bunty for the girls.