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Mods, please feel free to merge this into another thread, but the press are cottoning on to the end of the Dandy and I couldn't see where to put their comments.

Harry Mount (Daily Telegraph, 26 October, didn't see this elsewhere)

blogs.telegraph.co.uk/culture/harrymount/100066950/a-fond-farewell-to-the-dandy/

Not only is the artwork wonderful; there's also something intensely moving about the unchanging identity of the cartoon characters through the decades.

Jemima Lewis (Daily Telegraph, printed 1 December)

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/9714 ... g-old.html

Our comic heroes have died before growing old

Good old Daily Mail. No wonder they're still printing.

That wa sa bit mean Nigel...

This is better and show your brilliant drawing of everyone together singing..

http://www.bleedingcool.com/forums/fron ... dandy.html

loved seeing Bell boy and Black Bob all singing away.....

loads to guess the names...

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scott ... te-1466442
75 facts about the Dandy. Although a few aren't true.

19. The 1970s sci-fi boom led to the first sci-fi character, Captain Zapp.

That's the villain from Jack Silver.

33. The Dandy fan club is called Desperate Dan Pie-Eater’s Club.

Clearly, they aren't aware of the more recent incarnation, which was named after Ollie Fliptrik.

52. In 1964, the now traditional Dandy summer special was launched.

I guess they aren't aware that they stopped doing them a few years ago.

54. In 2004, the Dandy was rebranded with skateboarding kid Jak as cover star.

The skateboarding kid was Ollie Fliptrik. Not the same character as the 2004 cover star.

60. The mystery bellhop mascot appeared in 958 issues without ever saying a word.

He did speak, usually to preview the next installment of the prose stories.

Peter Gray wrote:That wa sa bit mean Nigel...

This is better and show your brilliant drawing of everyone together singing..

http://www.bleedingcool.com/forums/fron ... dandy.html

loved seeing Bell boy and Black Bob all singing away.....

loads to guess the names...

I can name every single one of those. I've used a font colour which should be hard to read without highlighting the text.
Dragon
Desperate Dan
Dinah Mo
The Smasher
Mitzy (Banana Bunch)
Chips
Bully Beef
Screwy Driver
Jonah
Korky the Cat
Corporal Clott
Lucy Grimm
Freddy the Fearless Fly
Black Bob
Ollie Fliptrik
Ali-Ha-Ha
Beryl the Peril
Cuddles
Dimples
Blinky
Dreadlock Holmes
Big Jock
Sidney Geordie
Marvo the Wonder Chicken
Harry Hill
Jack Silver
Bellboy
Jak
Bad Max
Grockle
Space Raoul
Brassneck
Todd
Winker Watson
Hungry Horace
Bananaman
Greedy Pigg
Postman Prat
Jibber
Danny Longlegs
Cuddles and Dimples's Mum
Cuddles and Dimples's Dad
Trevor Meecher
Eddie Potter (Strange Hill School)
Pinky (Crackpot Circus)
Keyhole kate
Owen Goal
Brain Duane
Molly

EDIT:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... ds-newsxml
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-enter ... 73861.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/de ... mic-online

The only one I'm struggling to guess is it Jimmy Hughes Dandy Summer Special character Chinese characters chum chum or something like that?
The character next to Korky on the right?

That's Lucy Grimm, from Dandy Xtreme.
http://tomplant.blogspot.co.uk/2010/10/ ... issue.html

Pretty mean of the Daily Mail to criticise Nigel's artwork. I'm sure Paul doesn't care how he looks - as long as he's in The Dandy!

Some wonderful artwork there, Nigel!

I could have sworn that was Fiddle O Diddle... we live and learn!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-20575207
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/gallery ... ry-gallery
http://www.contactmusic.com/news/paul-m ... am_3397434

Peter the Chinese spies were called Won Ton and Two Tun---or something similar.

Thanks Spy..

From The Scotsman: Fiona McCade: Loss of comics is no laughing matter

Tony Livesey will be talking about the final Dandy on his radio five show sometime between now and 1am when it finishes.