The Strange Secret of Dennis the Menace
I made this!
Tried to do a quick post about an observation I made and it spiralled out into a full history of the beloved character. Hope you like.
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Ambegris likes his tea stirred anti-clockwise, Wed 9 Jul 2014, 0:05,
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Really enjoyed that. Made me feel old though - I don't want my Dennis to grow old!
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I enjoyed that muchly
I've got all my 70s and 80s Beano books still and they've really dated - I mean are today's comics allowed to have a fat character called "Fatty" that always carries armfuls of sweets?
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h3donist tryin' to play me out as if my name is Sega.., Wed 9 Jul 2014, 8:50,
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The Bash Street Kids still has Fatty.
And he's still pretty much the same. Minnie the Minx no longer taunts Fatty Fudge, mind.
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Ambegris likes his tea stirred anti-clockwise, Wed 9 Jul 2014, 9:28,
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nice article, smashing blog.
i have forwarded your blog to an old college mate of mine, we recently had a disscussion regarding the comics of the late seventies and early eighties, and we both agreed that they had had a huge influence on our work over the years.
very few books lying around in our houses, but always comics, its what made us both want to learn to draw.
ps.. i prefered the fleetway stuff it was generally weirder.
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amoebaboy chose for death by unga bunga on, Wed 9 Jul 2014, 11:35,
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Thank you.
Completely agree about the Fleetway stuff, generally speaking. It seems to be where the best Dandy/Beano artists went when they got fed up with DC Thomson.
*slides the "I like this" button across the table*
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Ambegris likes his tea stirred anti-clockwise, Wed 9 Jul 2014, 11:53,
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