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It is very sad indeed, but let's face it - most of the characters and strips were curiously outdated when I was a kid. It seems a lot less relevant to kids now.
If kids today want comics, they'll just look at a website or something or buy the latest manga.
I suspect the 8,000 copies sold weekly are bought by adults suffering an attack of nostalgia.
 
There was a standing order for the Dandy and the Beano in my Uni. JCR. I thought that was an eccentric thing but I've heard others say the same thing . . .

And yes, they were well-thumbed.

Maybe they were kept alive that way? Students today are just not what they were!

It's a long time since I saw a Dandy or a Beano but those hungry characters had their roots in the thirties - even if not all the strips date back that far.

I suppose the style survives in the Viz strips. Despite clear warnings that they are not for kids, they are usually filed with the Rupert annuals in Oxfam! :shock:

Time to put the cow-pie in the oven!

edit: some rephrasing.

edit 2: Text left as it was. Let it be a lesson to me!
 
JamesWhitehead said:
Maybe they were kept alive that way? Students today are just not what they were!
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The students? Kept alive by reading comics?

Whatever next. :madeyes:
 
Mythopoeika said:
JamesWhitehead said:
Maybe they were kept alive that way? Students today are just not what they were!
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The students? Kept alive by reading comics?

Whatever next. :madeyes:
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Food for thought it were.
 
The students? Kept alive by reading comics?

Whatever next. :madeyes:[/quote]

By the same interpretation, "others" were better-thumbed too! :p

edit: "others" not "we." A small matter textually but a large step for a growing lad! :wince:
 
I remember reading the Beano and Dandy as a kid in the 70's and not having a clue what some of the characters were talking about, so they were very old fashioned then.

But then back in the day the next step when you'd grown out of those was Battle and Action with it's jingoistic dering do tales and giving Jerry a damn good thrashing and those have disappeared too.
 
I went pretty much straight on to 2000AD when it started, which really, I was far too young to understand.
 
Mythopoeika said:
It is very sad indeed, but let's face it - most of the characters and strips were curiously outdated when I was a kid. It seems a lot less relevant to kids now.
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Although Desperate Dan is still in it (will kids get the Western references?) I think it's Bananaman who's the main draw now, such as he is. Korky the Cat is no more. I'm guessing Bertie Buncle and his Chemical Uncle has been scrapped too - I dread to think of the reboot they would get these days.
 
It's just been confirmed, The Dandy is cancelled. The last issue will be in December - I'm tempted to buy it to see what they do to mark the sad occasion.
 
Apparently it's moving online next year - and in the paper today D.C. Thompson were quoted as furious their plans had been leaked!
 
"No ballet here; instead there were pacts with the devil, schoolgirl sacrifice, the ghosts of hanged girls, sinister cults, evil scientists experimenting on the innocent and terrifying parallel worlds where the Nazis won the second world war . . . "

Welcome to the world of girls' comics

If you scroll down, there is, for once, a useful comment, where a link is posted to an earlier article:

Science Fiction in Girls' Comics

Beastly stuff! :)
 
And from the comments section:

Fun fact: Pat Mills and John Wagner, the creators of Judge Dredd, spent a decade writing this stuff. According to Alan Moore, it was things like The Blind Ballerina ("her evil Uncle say­ing, 'Yes, come with me. You’re going out on to the stage of the Albert Hall where you’re going to give your premier per­form­ance', and it’s the fast lane of the M1") that turned them "cynical and possibly actually evil".
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:shock: :shock: :shock:
 
I forget which comic it was originally in, but i'm still trying to find a reprint of The Human Zoo, I think the story was supposed to be animal rights themed but like a lot of the stuff from that era, actually ended up unintentionally(?) perverted.

A lot of sadomasochists of a certain age were seriously influenced by this kind of stuff.
 
Girls comics of that time were notoriously grim, I think Mandy was supposed to be the grimmest. All of which helped sales hugely - the more cruel they were the better for the target audience. I bet even Twinkle had its wicked stepmother victimising a ballerina or two.
 
Yeah, when I was a kid I read my sister's copy of Mandy just out of curiosity - and it gave me some kind of insight into why my sister was always horrible to me.
Mind you, my sister wasn't one to read fiction or comics very much.
 
Its a shame these things arent availble in compliation for the misery porn generation.

(I was a bunty reader.)
 
I just bought the entire run of Misty on DVD for the princely sum of £1.99 plus p&p... lol i wonder just how grim it is... he he he going to find out!
 
BlackRiverFalls said:
I just bought the entire run of Misty on DVD for the princely sum of £1.99 plus p&p... lol i wonder just how grim it is... he he he going to find out!
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Let us know - I was fascinated by that title but couldn't read it because it was a girl's comic!
 
I used to love reading girl's comics. The Judy and the Bunty, anyway. Much more of the human interest sort of story. Poor, 'Wee Slavey', she had a terrible life.

Misty, I've only really read about by reputation.
 
You might not want to; she comes as a cut out with those clothes on tabs you put on her.

(not that I ever did this.)
 
Let us know
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I'd forgotten it was quite as late as it was, 78 rather than some of the earlier stuff, mostly horror fare rather than unduly perverted or sadistic, although it does appear to have it's suitably traumatic moments:

Shouldn;t Have Looked So Hard For Daddy's Monster :shock:

Not got that far in yet, there's a vent dummy story in issue 4 where the character turns into one but thankfully it was all a terrible nightmare ;)
 
See, poor Judy could have sat quite nicely in the pages of Scream a few years later.
 
gncxx said:
See, poor Judy could have sat quite nicely in the pages of Scream a few years later.
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Scream, short lived but sorely missed.
 
I haved a 3D Batman somewhere. The story's not very good (The Joker accuses The Riddler of ripping off his act!) but it's the 3D which is the point.
 
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