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A follow-up to Waverly Book's The History of The Beano: The Story So Far, called The Art and History of The Dandy, was released in August 2012, the Dandy's 75th anniversary year. A Waverly book about The Dandy was originally to be released in 2007 for the comic's 70th birthday, but was cancelled with no explanation. The last print edition of ...
The Dandy Annual is the name of a book that has been published every year since 1938, to tie in with the children's comic The Dandy. As of 2023 [update] there have been 86 editions. [ 1 ] The Dandy Annual still continues to be published, even though the weekly comic ended in 2013.
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 Desperate Dan Book 1979 featured Dan shaving his stubble with a blowtorch and meat cleaver. The Desperate Dan Book 1991 (from The Dandy) featured Dan wearing 4 costumes- a cowboy costume, an Indian chief costume, a gambler costume and an outlaw costume. Underneath was an envelope featuring a normally dressed Dan on the stamp, saying "If you ...
1 The Dandy Book 1978. 2 The Dandy Book 1992. 3 The Dandy Annual 2004. 4 The Dandy Annual 2008. 5 The Dandy Annual 2009. 6 The Dandy Annual 2010. 7 The Dandy Annual 2011.
The strip was drawn by Eric Roberts until his death in 1982. Afterwards, the strip ran mostly as reprints for the rest of the decade (though Tom Williams and Evi De Bono drew strips for the Dandy annuals), until Terry Bave took over. For the first few years he drew in the style of Roberts (though his style was still fairly noticeable), but as ...
Here, we curated our list of the best new design books of 2025. While some come out later in the year, you can still pre-order them now as a wonderful treat to your future self. Happy reading!
He was instrumental in the design of the October 2010 revamp of The Dandy and designing the new logos. For the revamp, Smart drew Desperate Dan, Pre-Skool Prime Minister, Arena of Awesome, My Dad's a Doofus (as well as many others) with reprints of My Own Genie and Space Raoul later being used.