Comics UK

Raven wrote:

WizzKid97 wrote: You'd be surprised how many kids there are on Facebook who are under 13! !)

Oh, I know there'll be a fair few, though I suspect that lot of parents won't want their tens and unders social networking, and I doubt FB is a big thing for 8-10s in general; probably not something they'd be able to present as appropriate market research.

Maybe, but I've seen the people who comment on the FB Page and the majority are obviously kids (between 10-14)

Raven wrote:

WizzKid97 wrote: TV Comic was brilliant, finding a 1979 TV Comic annual was such a treat. I loved the stories, the artwork. A comic which should return, no doubt!

But it wasn't just TV shows made into comics, remember TV Terrors, the specially made comic strip only for the TV Comic, completely original? (Good artwork too!)

Yes, with Hoppit and his boots: Fred and Charlie. Also original: Mighty Moth, Nelly and Her Telly, and a good Frank McDiarmid strip Texas Ted.

If you get the chance to pick any issues up from circa 1970-75, then get them! Good strips, both fun and adventure. I especially liked the Pink Panther strip which had a quirky sense of humour, and Bill Titcombe's Tom and Jerry. And, notably, all this TV stuff was just right for the comic's readership, and very much part of their world.

I LOVED Mighty Moth! Really good artwork, really good stories. Tom and Jerry, basil Brush and The Pink Panther were also favourites of mine, and I loved Popeye and TV Terrors too, if I see any more TV Comic things I'll definitely buy them.

Tin Can Tommy wrote:Im not sure whether Tiny's temper counts as one a celebrity based comic strip. its a pun based on a celebrity's name but and the character looks like Tiny Tempah but it doesnt explicitly state it is him.

Same goes for Justin Beaver and Bear Thrills, who are simply animal versions of Justin Beiber and Bear Grylls. All three are ideas that could've worked without the celeb connection (one of Justin's strong points is the past character cameos).

I almost got rid of my 1970s TV Comics a couple of decades back as I had a thing about not liking funny comics on glossy paper. Its probably why I have so few copies of Sun and Comet in my collection. Anyway I kept the TV Comics and really appreciate it now. I noticed the free gift cushion was stolen from a Dandy in Tesco. Some people misinterpret the word "Free". It could be the glossy paper that puts me off the new Dandy and Beano now I think of it. I hated US comics when they changed to baxter paper - the colours were too bright and cartoony.

Of course, the gifts aren't even free (cover price is higher when they have them), the "FREE" at the top of the cover was actually part of a joke.

Phoenix wrote:Just a gentle reminder to Scoobie to reread the new Forum Rules, and to remember that all posts are now being monitored by one administrator or other. Two insults in twenty-five words is two too many. Under all his posts Tin Can Tommy asks people nicely to refer to him as Tin Can, rather than Tommy, and Whizzboy is deliberately dismissive, as is the general tone of the post.

No flies on you, Bigbird. May I also give you a gentle reminder that I don't give a rat's arse what you think. And unless you become an administrator, it will stay that way.

Sorry to Tin Can Tommy and Whizzkid. It's so very obvious that your alter-ego is more important to you than any real-life ambitions and I'll treat that with more respect in the future.

With regards to celebrities in comics, if you don't like it, then don't buy it. Simple.

Action has been taken against the author of the previous post.

Al

Scoobie wrote:No flies on you, Bigbird. May I also give you a gentle reminder that I don't give a rat's arse what you think. And unless you become an administrator, it will stay that way.

Your defiant schoolboy bluster and rudeness at least serve to draw our attention to a previously-unknown meaning of the phrase generosity of spirit. So thanks for that!

What is happening to our beloved Comics UK?

This used to be a great place to hang out and opine on the latest moves in the UK Comics scene - with the occasional reminiscence of the comics of old.

The juvenile and, in some cases spiteful, nature of some of the newer members of the board (you know who you are) is the main reason I feel trepidation in offering my opinion to posts these days.

There are many very interesting items of discussion in the UK Comics industry at present - I just don't feel comfortable discussing them here any longer

Please Don't go...Al has sorted out this situation..so we don't get trolls and ugly comments on here..hopefully he has gone to think about what he did and be sorry proper..

Stay here, Spencer---we will weather the storm together.

Its not just here its the UK as a whole - too many people who no longer give a damn for the qualities that made the British respected across the globe. I go into Tesco yesterday and there are three blokes reading newspapers from cover to cover with no intention of purchasing them. Products from chiller cabinets where someone has changed their mind and just dumped it among the biscuits rather than take it back to the place they picked it up. Last year Tesco had a buy one get one free on fresh chickens and I saw two such chickens left in the biscuit aisle (I spend a lot of time around the biscuits) the problem is some well meaning individual goes "ooh they shouldn't be there, I'll just put them back with their other chicken mates" of course the aforesaid cluck-clucks are now alive with bacteria and some poor sod comes along and puts it in their basket unaware of the impending montezuma's revenge about to take up residence in their Badens. I heard it referred to in an Air Ace Picture Library as LMF Lack of Moral Fibre - it is now rampant in Britain.

Beano and Dandy had a display stand in WHSmith in Belfast today, as well as their usual place on the shelf. It's an improvement!

My local Tesco has the Dandy on the top shelf of the Newspaper section - which you can't get to for all those blokes reading them for nothing.

Scoobie wrote: With regards to celebrities in comics, if you don't like it, then don't buy it. Simple.

The prob lem for me is that I buy the comic because my children and I both enjoy about half of it, but we're paying for a comic we only actually read half of. I just wonder how many other people actually don't bother reading the celebrity stuff (and how many all this celebrity rubbish has put off). What's also annoying, and really quite ridiculous, is that when my kids do look at the celebrity stuff, they have to ask me who most of the people are!

The big problem with it is that it assumes we're alll watching this dross on the telly. As an adult reader, i find that insulting to my intelligence. And as an adult buying the comic for his kids, I find that insulting to my parenting skills.
We don't watch all this guff in our house, thankyou very much, and we're nor interested in it!

100% funny? Hmm, I wish it was. I'd say it's about 40% funny at the moment.

Ginger wrote:

Scoobie wrote: With regards to celebrities in comics, if you don't like it, then don't buy it. Simple.

The prob lem for me is that I buy the comic because my children and I both enjoy about half of it, but we're paying for a comic we only actually read half of. I just wonder how many other people actually don't bother reading the celebrity stuff (and how many all this celebrity rubbish has put off). What's also annoying, and really quite ridiculous, is that when my kids do look at the celebrity stuff, they have to ask me who most of the people are!

The big problem with it is that it assumes we're alll watching this dross on the telly. As an adult reader, i find that insulting to my intelligence. And as an adult buying the comic for his kids, I find that insulting to my parenting skills.
We don't watch all this guff in our house, thankyou very much, and we're nor interested in it!

100% funny? Hmm, I wish it was. I'd say it's about 40% funny at the moment.

That is an excellent response to Scoobie's post. Instead of hounding the guy out (see what I did there!), answer his posts in an intelligent manner like what Ginger has done.

If Scoobie had not have said 'don't like it, don't read it' then it wouldn't have generated this fine response.

I like your term 'guff', Ginger. There is a lot of it on tv, the new Red or Black is a fine example of it. No doubt the Dandy will do a turn of it in a future issue.