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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 ...
Law was born and raised in Edinburgh and educated at Edinburgh College of Art. He first worked for Odhams Press as an illustrator, before moving to D. C. Thomson in the early 1930s. He drew cartoons for Thomsons newspapers like the Evening Telegraph, including a strip called The Wee Fella. His most famous creation, Dennis the Menace, first ...
The Beano (formerly The Beano Comic) is a British anthology comic magazine created by Scottish publishing company DC Thomson. Its first issue was published on 30 July 1938, [1] and it published its 4000th issue in August 2019. [2] Popular and well-known comic strips and characters include Dennis the Menace, Minnie the Minx, The Bash Street Kids ...
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). From August 2007 until October 2010, it was ...
In 1924 Watkins entered the Glasgow School of Art. [2] In 1925 the school principal recommended Watkins to the thriving publisher D.C. Thomson, based in Dundee.Watkins was offered a six-month employment contract with D. C. Thomson, so he moved to their Dundee base and began providing illustrations for Thomson's "Big Five" story papers for boys (Adventure, Rover, Wizard, and later Skipper and ...
Minnie the Minx, is a comic strip character published in the British comic magazine The Beano. Created and originally drawn by Leo Baxendale, she first appeared in issue 596, dated 19 December 1953, making her the third longest running Beano character behind Dennis the Menace and Roger the Dodger. She would later be drawn by Jim Petrie, Tom ...
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.
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