Dandy Relaunch next month
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I saw the 2011 Dandy annual yesterday. Looks good, but is now two generations out of date, with a logo that predates the Extreme version, and Desperate Dan on the cover drawn by Ken Harrison.
The world moves too fast for annuals to keep up with. I look forward to seeing Harry Hill and his sidekick Blurp the Pig on the cover of the 2015 annual.
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The world moves too fast for annuals to keep up with. I look forward to seeing Harry Hill and his sidekick Blurp the Pig on the cover of the 2015 annual.
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Actually, that is the Xtreme version of the Dandy logo, just without the Xtreme name. The same version of the logo is also used on the Fun-Size Dandy (I wonder how long it'll take for the Fun-Size to change the logo?) And it isn't drawn by Ken, it's drawn by Nigel Parkinson, who also draws Dan inside in a style closer to Jamie's.kevf wrote:I saw the 2011 Dandy annual yesterday. Looks good, but is now two generations out of date, with a logo that predates the Extreme version, and Desperate Dan on the cover drawn by Ken Harrison.
The world moves too fast for annuals to keep up with. I look forward to seeing Harry Hill and his sidekick Blurp the Pig on the cover of the 2015 annual.
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Well it's changing from £2.50 a fortnight to £1.50 a week, so the subscription price would increase if anything. It won't be cheaper to subscribe to than it was when it was Xtreme.AndyB wrote:The subscription website still hasn't been updated, and they weren't yet able to quote me a price on the phone this morning... Brinksmanship!
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I stand corrected, excellent ghosting work there. In fact all the characters look like their usual artist's style, but blended well. Didn't spot the Jamie-alike contents, I shall now look for those (though I would have thought his writing and drawing style were the hardest to imitate without looking wrong. Likewise ghosting Gary Northfield, I'd think some artists are too unique to match. Bet I'm wrong. After all I started in The Beano trying to look like Mike Pearse, ha ha some chance).Digifiend wrote: Actually, that is the Xtreme version of the Dandy logo, just without the Xtreme name.
And it isn't drawn by Ken, it's drawn by Nigel Parkinson, who also draws Dan inside in a style closer to Jamie's.
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Nigel hasn't ghosted Jamie's style in the Annual. It's in Nigel's own style but the script is very Jamie-like.kevf wrote: Didn't spot the Jamie-alike contents, I shall now look for those (though I would have thought his writing and drawing style were the hardest to imitate without looking wrong.
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I meant more like his compared to Ken's.
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I'd disagree, personally. Nigel's drawn Ken's version with his own take on it - result is not quite true ghosting of Ken's style, but even from my brief look, there's no relation between the scripts and Jamie's remarkable style of writing. Unless someone can set me right, of course!
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I wonder why it wasn't drawn by Jamie anyway?
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I was trying to do a Ken but most of those pages were required The Next Day so I didn't have much time to hone any mimicry. I don't think the writers were trying to copy Jamie though.
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The same time as The Beano!!
Is there a kind of mergerish...But two seperate comics..
Dennis the Menace to be in The Dandy?
Is there a kind of mergerish...But two seperate comics..
Dennis the Menace to be in The Dandy?
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NP wrote:I don't think the writers were trying to copy Jamie though.
Fair enough. I was thinking that the exaggerated daftness was more like a Jamie script but then again they introduced that with the earlier version so...
No. The new Dandy will have it's own identity, as it always has really. Even in the 1960s and 1970s there was a difference in style between the two comics. That doesn't mean it'll look like a 1960s comic. This is a new Dandy for today's kids.Peter Gray wrote:The same time as The Beano!!
Is there a kind of mergerish...But two seperate comics..
Dennis the Menace to be in The Dandy?
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Kinda the old 90% comic strip format with modern characters and graphics, right? They've even gone back to a hand-drawn logo, when it had become computerised about 20 years ago.
Examples of the two comics separate styles:
Examples of the two comics separate styles:
- Beano got rid of it's last adventure strip, General Jumbo, in 1975. Dandy still had Black Bob into the 80s, and comic adventure strips Winker Watson and Brassneck survived into the 2000s. The even launched a new adventure strip fairly recently, with The Comet 10 years ago (I think it stopped in 2003).
- The Beano's center spread has usually been The Bash Street Kids since 1962. The Dandy had various strips in that slot over the years... including Jack Silver, an adventure strip.
- Beano got rid of it's animal cover star in 1974, Korky wasn't bumped off until 1984.
- Dandy went glossy in 2004, Beano didn't do this until 2008.
- Beano's back cover had been Dennis from the mid 60s until 1993. Desperate Dan only took over the back cover at the same time as the front, moving from the center spread which he occupied from 1983-4. He too stayed on the back cover until 1993, when both Dan and Dennis became the first three pages of their comic upon the full colour revamp. Bully Beef and Chips had occupied the Dandy back cover in the 60s and 70s.
- Beano's counterpart to the Xtreme format, BeanoMAX, is a separate title, instead of replacing the weekly comic.
- The Beano has long relied on four long runners from the 1950s alongside the newer creations. Dandy now only has one such character, Desperate Dan, who is the only character left from the first issue. The next longest running character, Bananaman, started in 1980, and in a different comic. The Dandy has a far bigger reliance on modern characters compared to Beano. The Beano's last original character, Lord Snooty, was axed 20 years ago.