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Post by The Doctor on Aug 14, 2012 18:11:21 GMT
Much wetting of pants online as The Dandy is threatened with closure with the usual petition nonsense and the like, but the only way to save a publication is to buy it. So I bought an issue (#3593). The last time I bought an issue of The Dandy it was a poly-bagged monstrosity with very little comic strip in it. But this was great. Loads of strips, great design, fun and genuinely funny strips. Jamie Smart (who also does stuff for The Phoenix) in particular has great stuff on it. A proper good kids humour comic.
Actual decent content and a lack of free crap means I can can see why it is doomed in the current marketplace. Perhaps going down the subscription route (like The Phoenix) or going for a shorter digital only version might keep it going.
Checked out the app for it. Not the best designed app in the world and the resolution on the lettering could be better but issues are 50p cheaper there. Hard to read some of the lettering though. Mmmm, physical copy is easier to read.
-Ralph
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Post by Nigel on Aug 16, 2012 13:13:55 GMT
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Post by blueshift on Aug 16, 2012 14:01:00 GMT
Aw heck that's a real shame  I was always a Beano man myself, but still... |
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 16, 2012 17:09:49 GMT
It's just moving to a digital format, which is probably where the kids are. It will still exist. I see no bad news here. Freed from the terrible UK supermarket/WH Smith distribution system, it will probably do much better.
-Ralph
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Post by legios on Aug 16, 2012 19:23:32 GMT
It certainly isn't going to hurt it in terms of releasing it from the ball-and-chain of the creaking UK distribution network. I actually can see the logic of this strategy - a lot of their target market has turned to digital platforms for their entertainment, so they may as well move with them.
Not having to produce a physical comic may also mean that their costs go down a bit which would be helpful given the generally tough times in the newsstand magazine market generally. This is not an ending, just a change.
Karl
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 16, 2012 20:30:24 GMT
"It's the end..."
-Ralph
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Post by Jim on Aug 16, 2012 22:46:09 GMT
"Never the end!"
I wish more people out there were talking the kind of sense I'm seeing talked here.
Dandy was the first comic I ever read and the first comic annual I got for Christmas; we used to buy these little square-bound collections printed on cheap paper from our local Co-op and pored over them. Fond memories. But still I can see why what's happening is happening, and if a magazine surviving by virtue of content has to leave the (appalling) comic sections of the newsagents then better it does it while it still has a chance of surviving in a different format.
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 19, 2012 20:37:13 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 9, 2012 21:24:13 GMT
Couldn't find the last print edition of The Dandy anywhere. Especially annoying as I was an occasional reader and copies were never hard to find. I suspect bloody scalpers.
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 31, 2018 14:35:14 GMT
Is now 80 years old! Pleasingly it is still a proper comic too and free of plastic polybagged crap most weeks. I was always more fond of The Dandy but its sister title always had quality too. As a kid my favourite character in it was Gnasher the dog!
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Jul 31, 2018 23:23:29 GMT
I do lament the passing of The Dandy. I did love it when they turned over Desperate Dan to Jamie Smart and a whole host of talented cartoonists made The Dandy really stand out.
Andy
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 1, 2018 8:09:42 GMT
While The Dandy still continues with new material as an Annual it is a shame it does not reflect the madness of the last days of its weekly incarnation. It also has Summer Specials though they contain only reprint material.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Aug 1, 2018 8:31:19 GMT
Sadly the issue one recently up on ebay failed to find a buyer! |
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 1, 2018 19:06:29 GMT
I am back on the Beano train for a while. I picked up the summer special and this week's issue that came out today and both had gags that made me laugh out loud.
I also picked up the Dandy summer special. Let's just say that other than the Desperate Dan strips the contents were only of historical interest.
Planning on a wee day out to see the exhibition in Dundee soon.
-Ralph
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Post by blueshift on Aug 1, 2018 19:14:18 GMT
As a child, I don't think I ever realised that the Beano was supposed to be funny. I think I just thought it was stories.
I still liked it!!
Dandy sucked as my sister got that and we weren't allowed to like the same thing
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Post by legios on Aug 1, 2018 20:29:14 GMT
80 years is a darned good age!. Impressive!
I was always more of a Beano kid than I was a Dandy kid to be honest. Always enjoyed stuff like the Bash Street Kids, and Dennis the Menace. Although I was always fonder of Gnasher than I was of his human sidekick. (For some reason, Gnasher's laugh always sounds to me like a slightly Newcastle version of Muttly. I have no idea why).
Karl
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Post by Pinwig on Aug 1, 2018 20:31:02 GMT
I never really read any of these but Whizzer and Chips was the only one I picked up more than once.
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Post by blueshift on Aug 1, 2018 20:46:32 GMT
I never really read any of these but Whizzer and Chips was the only one I picked up more than once. This explains a lot |
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 1, 2018 20:51:40 GMT
I never really read any of these but Whizzer and Chips was the only one I picked up more than once. Along with Breezer and also Topper I hope! Wait. Hang on. You must have read The Beano and The Dandy at least in their summer special incarnations! -Ralph |
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Post by Pinwig on Aug 1, 2018 22:03:09 GMT
I've probably read the odd issue, but that kind of comic has never been something I've really enjoyed.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Aug 1, 2018 22:06:25 GMT
I never really read any of these but Whizzer and Chips was the only one I picked up more than once. Along with Breezer and also Topper I hope! Beezer and Topper were both DC Thompson whereas Whizzer & Chips was IPC, like Buster, Jackpot, Whoppee & Oink. |
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 1, 2018 23:04:07 GMT
Oink! was fab.
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 6, 2018 22:12:22 GMT
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Aug 7, 2018 19:54:37 GMT
Nice idea.
Andy
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 7, 2018 20:55:42 GMT
I think I will try this service out in due course to see what the quality is like. As the annuals can be personalised I will order one for the Father Unit's next birthday in a few months.
-Ralph
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Aug 7, 2018 22:41:23 GMT
Finally got around to reading the 80th anniversary issue. Lots of fun.
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 8, 2018 8:45:24 GMT
I would have liked an issue celebrating 80 years of the Beano, not something to showcase David Williams ego.
-Ralph
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Aug 8, 2018 9:26:25 GMT
True enough, but I enjoyed that it was a single story with a sci-fi bent. Thank goodness Bananaman was immune!
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 8, 2018 12:18:53 GMT
The Summer Special tells a very funny single story. It also comes with loads of stickers!!!
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 30, 2018 12:21:37 GMT
This issue's Beano (#3950) has a sausage based ongoing story and...a cliffhanger!!!
-Ralph
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