Tag Archive | "DC Thomson"

‘Entertaining Dundee: From the Comical to the Comic, the Ridiculous to the Sublime’

Monday, April 2, 2012

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‘Entertaining Dundee: From the Comical to the Comic, the Ridiculous to the Sublime’ is an upcoming event which sees Doctor Chris Murray (who we know from his excellent comics academic work in Dundee) pitched against Eddie Small, an authority on Dundee’s well-kent son William ‘the great’ McGonagall (often celebrated as one of the worst poets [...]

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Happy Saint Andrew’s Day

Wednesday, November 30, 2011

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It’s Saint Andrew’s Day in Scotland which gives me an excuse to post up a bit of art from one of my favourite Scottish Indy comics, the brilliant Bogie Man by Alan Grant, John Wagner and Robin Smith. Please, please, can someone persuade Robin Smith that it really does need reprinting? (cover to issue 3 [...]

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Generating genuine emotion in comics

Thursday, April 28, 2011

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Over on the Too Busy Thinking About Comics blog Colin Smith has an extremely well-written, well thought out post on generating some genuine emotional response from comics characters. His example? Scotland’s long, long-running favourite, The Broons (still going in DC Thomson’s Sunday Post every weekend, showing no sign of ever losing favour with readers), which [...]

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Matt Badham goes Commando!

Friday, April 15, 2011

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No, worry not, not that type of commando, please don’t distress yourself with images of a pantsless Badham. It’s the other type of Commando, the immortal Commando Book digest series of comics from the mighty DC Thomson which have enterained generations of both boys and men for many years. And there’s a brand new one [...]

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Happy birthday, Dennis!!

Thursday, March 17, 2011

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Hard to believe but Dennis the Menace is 60 years old today, having made his unruly bow in the immortal Beano on March 17th, 1951. How many generations of British kids grew up reading about Dennis (and then later his equally spiky haired dog Gnasher) in the Beano? It’s built into our collective childhood – [...]

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Andy’s site revamp

Thursday, March 17, 2011

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Andy Fanton has revamped his website and along with updating information and adding more material he was also rather kindly given permission from venerable British kid’s comics institution The Dandy to post up a smattering of the strips he creates for them, including his George Versus the Dragon, so go over and have a browse [...]

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The Tartan Bucket

Tuesday, March 8, 2011

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Down the Tubes reports that this year’s Dundee Comics Day, now part of the Dundee Literary Festival at Dundee University, will include a competition to create a new character and short story (up to two pages) aimed at a younger reading audience (comparable to the readership of the Beano). The competition is in conjunction with [...]

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In this week’s new releases: ducks, zombies and classic Brit boy’s war comics

Thursday, October 21, 2010

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It’s a bumper week for new releases, with a slew of graphic novels hitting our shelves for New Comic Day this very morning. But purely for the sheer visual fun of it this cover for Marvel Zombies Volume 5 made me smile, big time – I mean it’s Howard the Duck and he’s kicking undead [...]

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A treasure trove of early Dudley Watkins

Tuesday, July 6, 2010

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Mike Donachie (thanks, Mike) points us to DC Thomson’s Courier, which has a slideshow featuring a treasure trove of early work by the celebrated comics creator Dudley D. Watkins, drawn from the DCT archives, some of which apparently haven’tt been seen since they were originally printed many decades ago. Some, like the one of Smarty [...]

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DC Thomson to shed 350 jobs

Wednesday, June 9, 2010

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Famed Scottish publisher DC Thomson – home to the Beano and Dandy and Commando Books among many other publications – has announced that it is to shed some 350 jobs and close one of its printing works in their long-time home of Dundee. BBC Reporting Scotland commented that the print works due to close took [...]

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DC Thomson says the BBC is muscling on their act

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

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This Is Money site reports that Scottish publishing and comics giant DC Thomson has accused the BBC of competing unfairly with independent companies, specifically a BBC magazine about animals, aimed at younger readers, had, according to chief executive Andrew Thomson, taken a chunk out of sales for DCT’s own Animals And You publication. Some may [...]

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Happy Burns Night

Monday, January 25, 2010

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Its January 25th and that means this evening Burns Night will be celebrated in Scotland and indeed across the world (its not just our comics writers and artists we’ve exported into the global culture!), as we honour our national bard, Robert Burns. Last year the long-running Scottish comic strip The Broons had the Scottish Parliament’s [...]

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Rod on Dudley Watkins

Wednesday, October 14, 2009

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“For we cartoonists’ who are not naturally gifted and have to work hard at our craft, there is some solace in looking at Dudley’s very early work before the Broons and Oor Wullie. That’s because if you began with no knowledge of his earlier work, and you just picked up a Broons or an Oor [...]

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DC Thomson buys Friends Reunited

Thursday, August 6, 2009

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Scottish publishing empire DC Thomson, home to long-loved titles like the Beano, Sunday Post and the Dandy among many other publications, has bought the Friends Reunited website through its subsidiary Brightsolid Limited. DCT picked up the site for £25 million according to the news this morning, buying it from seriously struggling commercial broadcaster ITV, which [...]

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