75 years of The Dandy- Whacko!

The Dandy 13th March 1971

This strip is so full of detail and period pieces..

 The beauty of this strip is its showing the past so it can get away with corporal punishment, a kid smoking a pipe and them running wild in extreme ways..

I like how each kid has a different costume and they look individual its all very worked out.

Drawing crowd scenes is tricky to do But Ron is brilliant at it..

Ron also drew the brilliant crowded Robin Hood's Schooldays strip later..

75 years of The Dandy The Tricks of Screwy Driver

Heres a brilliant reprint which started in The new big Dandy with extra pages 13th March 1971.

I've really love Bill's work and been rereading my old Dandy just for his work.
Look at all the great action lots of running...good depth..which as a cartoonist myself i struggle with....its a real 3D world hes created.

I like the 50's radio...

Bill is great at the slapstick...George Martin is also great at this..
12/11/55 is when it started in The Dandy.
Its always nice when a new story has a origin..

75 years of The Dandy Desperate Dawg

The Dandy 6th October 1973

I remember as a kid I thought this strip was a bit of a cheek using Desperate Dan's title name...But it won me over and some nice George Martin art slapstick to enjoy.

It's funny seeing Desperate Dawg eating bones! in the second version he was less dog like...
what is nice about this strip is all the different type of dog face types used...


See this link below thanks to Digi for the heads up at comicsuk forum..

http://www.heyuguys.co.uk/the-dandy-goes-digital-we-geek-off-with-morris-heggie-editor-of-the-dandy-from-1986-to-2006/

Lots of interesting news about scanning of comics...Tom Paterson coming out of retirement to draw for the digital Dandy...well worth a read..

Hopefully tonight I'll get my email from the Dandy sub so I can see Dandy number 1 online...

75 years of The Dandy Bully Beef and Chips do Star Wars ;0)

 Heres a gem by Jimmy Hughes...

Charles Griggs

I love the Dandy its so weird...wonderful...surreal and silly. This Korky one is just brilliant I had to show this as well. Roll up roll up win £10 to stay in a lion cage for one minute...and this is a good idea!!! Loved the ending lol..

Really pleased with this drawing I've done for a customer for £30. Its come out so well :0) I'm hoping they will let me use this for cards...

Let me draw your pet for £30 A3 size.

thejeep2000@yahoo.co.uk

The Dandy now online..

This l,ooks like a perfect character for Jamie...

A nice story by Nigel and great he got Paul McCartney on board. Nigel is great at drawing cartoon likeness of famous people.

A very moving last issue...I found Ken's Desperate Dan the saddest which was of course number 1 Dandy character. 

Once my email for subscribers comes through I'll be about to read the new Digital Dandy. Hope they hurry up...But you can read a sample at

www.dandy.com

Get your copy tomorrow the last ever Dandy..

75 Years of The Dandy the Domes John Geering

The Dandy 13th April 1985

This strip didn't quite work and was short lived. I think the alien characters look very weird with huge dome heads..

75 years of The Dandy -Charles Griggs article link

http://www.birminghampost.net/life-leisure-birmingham-guide/postfeatures/2012/11/30/charles-grigg-s-22-years-as-cartoonist-for-the-dandy-comic-65233-32341268/#.ULkb5JnxmRU.twitter

Well worth a read to an amazing talent..

75 years of The Dandy Ginger's Super Jeep by Eric Roberts

The Dandy 27th Feb 1960

A Go-Cart that can go anywhere...who knows how it works?

Great art by Eric. 

75 Years of The Dandy Tin Lizzie by Jack Prout

http://comics.brucelaing.id.au/dandy1950s/

Bruce is doing a great tribute through the years of The Dandy and at last I can see for the first time Tin Lizzie in the Dandy comic1957.by the great Jack Prout (Black Bob artist.)

Follow link above to see more...

75 years of The Dandy The Jocks and the Geordies

The Dandy 2nd August 1980

A strong strip which is unforgettable once seen. Though the Geordies sure wear tight socks and little caps!!

Jimmy Hughes the artist also drew Bully Beef and Chips another memorable strip.

Gordon Bell is great at facial expressions in his comic work

The Beano 4th Nov 1978

You don't need words to know what's going on in these pictures..

The variety he uses in one page is a good lesson to us all...

I'm good at doing expression in my own cartoons . I read as a kid Gordon Bell's comic work which really inspired me also the Mr Men :0) in how to do facial and body poses of many types.

Egmont classics now available as digital comics

Maybe later humour comics like Whizzer and chips will be added to win new young fans...

see also -

Blimey! It's another blog about comics!: Egmont classics now available as digital comics:     Some of the most fondly remembered adventure strips of the 1970s and 1980s are now available as digital downloads from the iTunes sto...