Unfortunately, when the title eventually expired, I was unaware of its fate until many months after the fact and therefore missed buying the final issue. However, on one of my regular jaunts down to London in 1985, I spied a random selection of issues on a magazine rack in BOB PAYNTER's office. (Bob, for those of you who may not already know, was the Group Editor of the Humour Division of IPC's weekly comics, such as WHIZZER & CHIPS, BUSTER, WOW!, etc.) Editors often had a supply of other publishers' titles so that they could keep abreast of what their rivals were up to, hence the issues of TV Comic (amongst others) on his office rack.
I quite liked TV Comic. Dick Millington did some superb work and the dialogue was several notches above the "It's a BEAR!" "Oh bums" exchanges that pass for wit in the D*ndy these days.
ReplyDeleteThe Dandy's current sad situation and the refusal of certain 'second-string' individuals to recognize the reasons for it, is akin to someone pulling a tin of beans from the bottom row of a display and then wondering why it collapsed. And then denying responsibility when it's explained to him. Not got the brains they were born with, some of them.
ReplyDeleteApparently I "just don't get it". And for someone who grew up with Calvin and Hobbes and the Tick, I don't see many signs of a certain Dandy artist wearing his influences on his sleeve. Ho hum. Too obvious perhaps?
ReplyDeleteI'm not quite sure what it is you "don't get", but if it concerns something "they" said, then they don't know their back end from a bump on the head.
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