End of an Era

[youngmafbog]

Or just moving to the next ?

http://news.sky.com/story/1020174/dandy-comic-publishes-its-final-print-edition

[jno]

the Dandy App? Sounds like a must-have

[emmie]

used to love the comic, alongside the Beano, our favourite childhood reads.

[Zeuhl]

Perhaps The Dandy has been undermined by lefty, pinko, hand-wringing, veggie liberals, the noo labour PC Brigade and multiculturalism.

[Gromit]

Yesterday Murdoch announced the demise of 'the Daily', the app only newspaper.

Admittedly, the Daily was very bad and I was not surprised no one bought it. It will be interesting to see how the Dandy fairs. I will get the free first edition.

[Old_Geezer]

A little sad that a paper comic doesn't seem to mean as much to the kids as it used to when I was small, but I guess things move on. IMO website access and proper paper publications are not the same. Wonder how they will put the free gift in, "this week's issue", going forward :-) Probably just another simple game on the website I guess.

[Gromit]

I still have some Dandy annuals from the 1970s, when I was an avid reader of it.

I do find the present version rather inferior in comparison.

[NOX]

Or it could just have been outdated cr4p zeuhl, what do you think?

[McMouse]

I was saddened when Dandy went all PC and did away with Desperate Dan's pipe. Or am I thinking of Popeye?

[emmie]

didn't Dan eat raw meat, and never shaved,

[tonyav]

em, Dan used to eat cow pie, with the horns sticking out of the top of it lol.

[jno]

Dan eat raw meat? He's not a carpaccio man, really. tonyav is correct

[Booldawg]

I doubt many kids read comics in the usual printed form, not with todays passion for electronica.

[sandyRoe]

Times have changed. The Bash St kids would all be in care now. Minnie the Minx and Dennis the Menace would both be serving time in Borstal

[LyndaB]

I work on the amazing section of one of our biggest retailers and can tell you that comics are alive and well. We sell loads of them - but not the Dandy or the Beano.

[anotheoldgit]

Pornography is of more interest to some of today's kids, so much so that the schools are teaching them about it.

[Mick-Talbot]

Comics never interested me really. Well not until I was an adult. (viz)

My kids have never shown any interest in comics either (well other than viz of course)

[Duncer]

I still buy Viz every issue to facilitate my irredeemably childish sense of humour.

[Quizmonster]

Zeuhl, you missed out beardie and muesli-eating. I shouldn't wonder, either, if the comic closed because of the combined efforts of Red Ed Millipede, His Tonyness and their union paymasters!