Desperate times for Desperate Dan

Grew up in DC Thompson country where my best pal's dad drew for the Beezer, Dandy and Beano.

Mickey the Monkey & The McTickles were favourites......I'd see the sketches a week before anyone else.......then Viz came along and Fat Freddy's Cat and R. Crumb and all the adjustments of growing older.

My kids are now of an age that back then would have been comic reading age but they seem so much more sophisticated somehow.......not so sure it's a good thing myself.  

I'm amazed these comics have lasted so long really.  G

I too heard that the Dandy is now selling about 8,000 copies a week. In its pomp it was selling two million - but nowadays there are so many other things for kids to do and spend their money on. Sad, but that is the way of the world. It won't be long before nobody reads comics, except for Viz, Judge Dredd and DC/Marvel titles.

As a kid growing up in the late 60s/70s, I remember starting off with Beano, Dandy, Topper, Whizzer & Chips and Beezer before graduating to more robust fare such as Battle Picture Weekly, Action and those little A5 IPC "War Picture Library"  books that were full of Germans going "Gott in Himmel where is Englisher pig-dog" or brave Tommies in the Far East dispatching Japanese soldiers with the immortal words "Take that, you rice-noshing sons of Nippon!".

Happy days.

"Commando" 's. Still in Smith's.