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ChickenOfTomorrow
Nov 11, 2012

god damn it, you've got to be kind


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ChickenOfTomorrow
Nov 11, 2012

god damn it, you've got to be kind





(The Rover, c. 1928.)

ChickenOfTomorrow
Nov 11, 2012

god damn it, you've got to be kind

Wheat Loaf posted:



The Beano, probably from the mid-1940s.

They subsequently featured strips starring a character called:



DC Thomson sure do love Dick.

ChickenOfTomorrow
Nov 11, 2012

god damn it, you've got to be kind

Squizzle posted:

Good ol' Dick Comics Thompson. :cheers:

their "policy of giving no credit" - i.e. eternal campaign against giving authors or artists credit (even to the extent of searching for and removing signatures/initials artists snuck in) is p dickish; also their spat with Viz in the '90s* that led to this:




I find this funny because of how unfunny it is - ymmv.

[h/t to best chum for info on both these bits of DC Thomson history]
* Link has an SSL error but I can't find an alternate.

ChickenOfTomorrow fucked around with this message at 03:19 on Jan 17, 2016

ChickenOfTomorrow
Nov 11, 2012

god damn it, you've got to be kind

WickedHate posted:

Ahh, this is the kind of stuff The Dover Boys was making fun of.

Not quite - "The Dover Boys" was inspired by The Rover Boys, while that strip from The Dandy was part of a then-60-year-long series of DC Thomson weekly comics :)

The Rover Boys is a classic series in the running-jumping-climbing-trees American school story mould. I don't think you can directly compare those school stories with the grand trad of British boarding school stories and weekly comics like The Beano and The Dandy but there's definitely common themes.

Anyway here's superman being a dick.

ChickenOfTomorrow
Nov 11, 2012

god damn it, you've got to be kind

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ChickenOfTomorrow
Nov 11, 2012

god damn it, you've got to be kind



Happy valentine's day. don't forget to hold dick.

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