The DFC - New Children's Weekly Comic

[Andy Turnbull]

It's subscription only at the moment - The DFC website has more info on it.

Andy Wildman will be contributing art to one of the strips The Frontier, written by Neill Cameron. Philip Pullman is also writing one of the serials.

Looks to have the backing of Random House

Good to see a new weekly title come out, even if it isn't on the shelves.

Andy

[The Doctor]

I like the idea but the website annoyed the hell out of me.

-Ralph

[legios]

Always good to see something new out there. It will be interesting to see how it does as a subscription-only thing.

I have no interest in buying it myself, but it is good that it exists.

Karl

[The Doctor]

According to Andy Wildman's blog, there's a trial run of this in Tesco's this week.

-Ralph

[Andy Turnbull]

Sadly some bad news for this brave experiment in original kids comics.

downthetubescomics.blogspot.com/2009/03/dfc-up-for-sale.html

Apparently the subscriptions weren't enough and there were reports of the subs not being fulfilled properly after twenty or so weeks.

Anndy

[The Doctor]

A shame.

-Ralph

[Andy Turnbull]

Subscription only is a risky model if the infrastructure isn't sound.

Fingers crossed that a buyer comes up.

Andy

[The Doctor]

I tried to find the sample issues through Tesco but had no luck finding any.

-Ralph