The Dandy 1957 Fireworks Number

The Beano 1952

75 Years of The Dandy Joe White and the seven dwarfs

stevezodiac	Post subject: Re: Bill Holroyd - give him his dues. Posted: Wed Dec 26, 2012 9:39 pm
Joined: Tue May 23, 2006 7:43 pm Posts: 2678 Location: space city	Here are two stories:

Peter Gray	Post subject: Re: Bill Holroyd - give him his dues. Posted: Thu Dec 27, 2012 12:20 am
Joined: Mon Feb 27, 2006 11:07 pm Posts: 3552 Location: Surrey Guildford	Thanks for the scans... the stories are really good...love the way it rolls on to next week.. What a gem it is..

http://www.comicsuk.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=127&t=2134&start=15
Bill is of course great at slapstick...this is from The Dandy 1963-4
Thanks to Steve for the scans..I've only seen it in the Dandy annual...
Every character is different and unique...

75 years of The Dandy Christmas 1975 my thoughts on the online Dandy!

I wonder 

Jack Prout having fun drawing this quirky strip.

Poor Creep! erm hooray for Winker!!

Bully Beef has a weak point love!!

I wonder if the Korky cover had something else planned to pull Korky's cracker has there is a llot of space on the left?

Doing all these post on The Dandy may give the impression The Dandy has ended...But there's a very good version 

online at www.dandy.com 

It is very well drawn and gone back to an old style. Desperate Dan, Bananaman, Brassneck and Mister X are all very good. though I enjoyed Jamie's Desperate Dan and was a nice change I think Jamie's work is much better for quirky strips like the Numbskulls. It is a shame the print version ended when this version online is so good and needs to be seen. Hopefully if enough people subscribe at £1.50 an issue it could come back in a print form in the future! 

Some ideas I would like the online Dandy to do...put all games in one section and not in the middle of the story as my old computer struggles to make them work. Also it would be fun if there was one old page from Dandy's past included. Another idea maybe there could be a print version to order online avoiding the shops. I suppose being a collector of comics I do prefer paper versions. With Tom Paterson coming out of retirement to work for the online Dandy later on I've been very impressed. Well done everyone!

Happy Christmas and Happy New Year
Peterx

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 -The Dandy -Spunky and his Spider by Bill Holroyd

 In tribute to an amazing record breaking comic The Dandy and the brilliant new book..Buy now

http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Art-History-Dandy-Banana/dp/1849342415

 I'll be doing some posts on The Dandy.and focusing on some of the panels in large size. Some brilliant artists worked for The Dandy..and Bill is one of them..

The Dandy 1968

I love the different poses of the spider..also some great expressions on the crowds faces...each different..also the laughing chuckling Punch in the corner is a good contrast to the fright.

The crowd have life has some are running away already...its not just a load of faces with the same shock expression.

 Quite tricky to draw showing a spider run..also great the different running positions of the runners..a good low angle to show the spider better..and the tumbled out of the way children..

 I like the space on the panel Bill leaves...

This has to be my favourite panel..

Planet of the apes in The Dandy..well in a smaller way..Dinesdale of the apes!

The Dandy 19th April 1980

Bill Holroyd draws this great strip..these comic adventures are great fun to read..
As a good guess...if I had the last episode of this...the Gorilla is a man dressed up and is an animal trainer gone bad..mind you those chimps are very smart..oooh er..

With the new Planet of the apes film coming soon...I'd thought it would be fun to see the Dandy version..
http://www.apeswillrise.com/

Topper late 50's..

Bill Holroyd (thanks to Kashgar for info) Topper July 5th 1958

To answer Gerald's comment on Peter's blog, 'Back to Zero' was actually a sequel to the 1957 serial 'In the Kingdom of Zero' which was reprinted in 1967. In this case Ken Hunter was the original artist. Thanks to - Phil Rushton

These two are from The Topper 22nd June 1957



Ken Hunter









The Topper 24th Jan 1959

Hi Peter,

The 'Wakey Wakey' feature was drawn by Jimmy Thompson a fine cartoonist/caricaturist.
Thanks Kashgar

The Topper July 5th 1958

Bill Holroyd's slapstick fun..this is 1958 when chimps were getting ready to be sent up into space for tests..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ham_the_Chimp

Ham the Chimp was the first..
He was purchased by the United States Air Force and brought to Holloman Air Force Base in 1959