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Wednesday, 25 January 2012

Guess the strip!

Following on from this post, I'm happy to report that the 2013 Dandy annual will include, as well as the three two-page Winker Watson strips I mentioned, three one-page strips of another vintage Dandy strip, by yours truly.


Quite interesting facts about this one:
  • It'll complete a triumvirate of school-based strips for the Dandy (the other two being Winker Watson and Mr Meecher The Uncool Teacher, obviously)
  • It bears the same initials as another of my Dandy strips. 
  • And in this one I'm ghosting the style of the original artist, Ron Spencer (much more closely than I did the Eric Roberts style on Winker Watson)
Have you guessed it yet? Oh come on, I've practically told you! It is a lesser-known strip, but it was always one I loved as a kid. I have a vague childhood memory of feeling deliciously happy reading this strip in a summer special, on the beach. (Not that that's going to help you much)


PS The weekly Dandy really is a great comic now, btw, and if you haven't tried it on your kids yet, I really urge you to give it a go -- this great British institution needs support! It seems to have got rid of the celebrity-based stuff (which I have to admit was my least favourite part) and now really is a cracking kids comic!


Cripes! Bit text-heavy, this post -- here's the title pic from this week's Mr Meecher The Uncool Teacher (out now) to appease the image-hungry:


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7 comments:

  1. Robin Hoods School Days?

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    1. Obviously it should have read 'Hood's'.

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    2. Well done! -- whoever you are...?

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    3. Who am I? Who indeed? I have remained annonymous so as to not 'curry' any favour. For it would most certainly put you in a 'pickle' so to speak if my idenity was revealed, indeed I might go psycho on a grand scale.

      Also I don't have a url.

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    4. You know your onions, anyway.

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  2. that one with the teacher in a suit of armour and all the kids tried to beat him up (forgot what it was called) arr a quick search on ComicUK revealed the answer Whacko! but i dont thinks thats the one your drawing cos u said initials you cant have initials with a one word strip title.

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    1. It's a very similar strip, in fact I think Ron Spencer may have worked on Whacko! too (but I could be wrong)
      Funnily enough, I was thinking of doing a cross-over, a sort of guest appearance from Whacko, in one of the pages. But didn't in the end.
      Maybe another time, if I get the chance.

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