The end of the Dandy

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.telegraph....birthday-edition.html

Ah! the end of an era.

How long will it be before the Beano goes, and why is it that the children of today don't care for comics?

What other comics did you enjoy reading as a child, and who were your favourite characters?

Remember 'Weary Willie and Tired Tim' in Chips?

And how appropriate in 2012 'The Wolf of Kabul' in the Wizard.

http://www.britishcom.../The_Wizard/index.htm

[Mamyalynne]

Triggs liked Bunty too.

[kitty123]

I am sure it was called "misty" the magazine for girls that i bought.

[slinky.kate]

i used to get'jackie'

[Ellipsis]

I used to "Look out for Look-In every week", too, trigs ...

Plus at various ages, Beano, Dandy, Whizzer and Chips, Warlord, 2000 AD, Eagle (re-release) and Viz - and a load of Marvel comics, with ads for X Rays Specs, Sea Monkeys and Charles Atlas bodybuilding courses ...

[TOWIE]

My favourites were, Beano, Dandy, Beezer and Bunty.

[TOWIE]

Oops, forgot - Jackie.

[sir.prize]

Dan Dare and the Mekon in the Eagle comic. Brill to a youngster . . . .

[flobadob]

I liked Beano, Dandy and Buster. I wouldn't even think to buy them nowadays but I can see a Dandy sales boost in the offing. They used to cost 40p, but I think the last time I looked they were up around the £3 mark. Couldn't do it as am impulse buy I don't think.

[Mick-Talbot]

and why is it that the children of today don't care for comics?



Seriously ?

[heathfield]

As part of their severe economy programme, D.C.Thompson have cut back on the production costs of their comics, including the Dandy. Instead of employing some of the UK's best comic artists, draughting is now done by computer, leading to the comic characters becoming simplified, crudely drawn, and almost unrecogniseable. Scripts are unimaginative and no longer clever, and the amount of visual information in each box of a comic story has dwindled to almost zilch. No wonder circulation has sunk. Kids are not interested, and who can blame them?

[Mick-Talbot]

Like

Xboxes
Playstations
Laptops
their own TV's
DS's
Mobile phones.


Personally,..... give me the Dandy to while away the hours ........

[Mick-Talbot]

Scripts are unimaginative and no longer clever,



LOL

[Wharton]

I married the sister of Ming the Merciless.

[horseshoes]

Bunty. Judy. June & Schoolfriend. Beezer. Later on - Jackie.

[Hopkirk]

Billy's Boots.