David Torrie

[Lew Stringer]

Sad news. DC Thomson editor and writer David Torrie has passed away. More info at John Freeman's blog at the link below:

http://downthetubes.net/?p=15374

[philcom55]

Sad news indeed. I like his quote about Dandy readers preferring stories that were more 'robust' than the Beano's usual fare. In a funny sort of way that neatly encapsulates the essential character of the title when I read it in the 1960s.

- Phil R.

[Kashgar]

This is indeed sad news. Dave Torrie was a kind, witty man full of great stories to tell and possesed of infinite patience when it came to trying to answer my seemingly endless questions with regard to all aspects of the Thomson output.
I spent many a happy hour on the phone to him for something like thirty years.
He will be missed.

[ISPYSHHHGUY]

Mr Torrie was the first-ever Editor who encouraged my cartoons, back in October 1983.

I first met him almost exactly 30 years ago, on the first Monday of June, 1984, and he and Ian Gray [the Beano writer] were the first two comics professionals I ever had an in-depth conversation with, over an entire afternoon.

The fact that I just turned up out of the blue off the streets of Dundee [there had been some correspondence a few weeks earlier, but it was lost, unbeknown to me at the time----- due to me flitting] never put Mr Torrie off at all, and he came down the stairs to greet me at the entrance of Thomsons'.


Eternally grateful to Mr Torrie [D.W.] and to Mr Gray, now both sadly gone.