The Round-up
Above: Cartoon editor Bob Mankoff on the anatomy of a New Yorker cartoon. Over at New Yorker HQ, Mankoff’s blog features a guest column about using cartoon captions in the classroom. Several months after taking The Dandy purely digital, DC Thomson has suspended its existing app, saying that “the technology and format have let us […]
The Round-up
Procartoonists.org member Alexander Matthews has resurrected Lord Snooty for The Beano (above), and writes about his approach to the character on his blog. Snooty has been absent from the comic for a while (and was even replaced by his grandson for a time). Alex has also recently brought his distinctive style to another classic Beano […]
The Dandy in the news
You can’t have failed to hear the news about the end of the print edition of The Dandy, which ran across all the media yesterday. BBC news had the story, national newspapers covered it, The One Show ran a profile of Desperate Dan (why do TV people always have to put the presenters in boxes with […]
The Round-up
The Dandy has received a huge amount of media interest since our post earlier this week about the comic’s struggle for survival, and sadly it has now been announced the last print edition will be published in December. Judge Dredd co-creator John Wagner has paid tribute to the comic, and the Dandy cartoonists Jamie Smart, […]
Desperate Dandy hits hard times
The future of The Dandy as a weekly printed comic appears to be in jeopardy. Its publisher says that no decision has been made, but Procartoonists.org understands that the comic is likely to be coming to an end in September. A Dandy cartoonist told us: “They emailed me last week saying that in all likelihood it […]
Round-up: What the Bloghorn saw
Rob Murray writes: Life magazine has compiled a diverse selection of wartime caricatures of Adolf Hitler, and points out that “in the right hands a pen, a paint brush, or a crude puppet can be an effective weapon.” You can see the slideshow here. A new film has turned to animation to tell the story […]
Eat lead, Fritz! Commando is in town
The National Army Museum may seem like an odd place for a comics exhibition, but what better venue for a retrospective on Commando? For Commando, ze war is never over, as the pocket-sized comics have featured non-stop bashing of the Boche since 1961. The 50th anniversary has been less heralded than that of Private Eye, […]
Mocking the twits of the 21st century
Master Cartoonist John Jensen wrote to Bloghorn about the stories of criticism for the one year postgraduate study into Comics and Visual Communication recently launched by the University of Dundee. We publish his letter below. Tom Harris is an MP whose hobbies include astronomy, science, fiction, cinema, karaoke and tennis. He was a journalist before […]
The Dandy relaunches (again)
The Dandy, Britain’s longest running comic, published by DC Thomson, is due to relaunch next week with a new look. Not much has been made public about the makeover, but the current unpopular fortnightly magazine-style incarnation, Dandy Xtreme, is expected to be ditched in favour of a return to a weekly comic almost entirely composed of […]