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The statue of Desperate Dan in Dundee City Centre. The strip was drawn by Dudley D. Watkins until his death in 1969. Although The Dandy Annuals featured new strips from other artists from then on, the comic continued reprinting Watkins strips until 1983 (though the then Korky the Cat artist Charles Grigg drew new strips for annuals and summer specials), when it was decided to start running new ...
The Dandy was a Scottish children's comic magazine published by the Dundee based publisher DC Thomson. [3] The first issue was printed in December 1937, making it the world's third-longest running comic, after Il Giornalino (cover dated 1 October 1924) and Detective Comics (cover dated March 1937).
He contributed to most of the company's comics. [4] His longest running strip was " Pup Parade ", a spin-off of " The Bash Street Kids " featuring the kids' dogs, which he drew regularly in The Beano from 1967 to 1988, [ 5 ] in The Topper from 1989 to 1990, and The Beezer from 1990 to 1992. [ 6 ]
Raggy Muffin – the Dandy Dog James Crichton 1948 1950 Humour Plum Macduff (the Highlandman who never gets enough) Bill Holroyd 1948 1952 Humour Hotcha the Hottentot Robert MacGillivray 1948 1949 Humour The Slave of the Magic Lamp Fred Sturrock 1948 1949 Prose The Croaker holds the Clue Jack Glass 1948 1949 Prose Wuzzy-Wiz, Magic is his Biz
A 'The Very Best of Black Bob' was published in 2010, [3] and Bob re-appeared in the 2013 Dandy Annual drawn by Steve Bright in Prout's style. Jack Prout was born on 14 December 1899 and joined the Scottish publishing firm of D. C. Thomson as a staff artist on 21 June 1937.
Cuddles and Dimples is a British comic strip published in the comic book magazine The Dandy.It was first published in 1986. The stories' protagonists are two toddler brothers who like to cause double the trouble wherever they go.
Educated at the Clepington Primary School and then at Morgan Academy, both in Dundee, Kennedy was employed after leaving school by D. C. Thomson & Co. He was taken on as a trainee illustrator in their Art Department in 1949. He recalled that his first published work was inking the black squares in the weekly Sunday Post crossword.
The Amazing Mr X was a British comics character who appeared in British children's magazine The Dandy from 1944 to 1945. [1] The character is regarded as Britain's first superhero. The comic was drawn by Jack Glass, and reappeared drawn by Dudley Watkins in the 1962 Dandy Book .