RSS Feed. How was your Saturday? Were you the victim of any hair-raising, fund-raising tricks yesterday? On a form inside the birthday special, readers were encouraged to sign up sponsors for this new national holiday to pay them for every prank they play of them and for the number of laughs they raise, with all proceeds going to the CLIC Sargent Charity caring for children with cancer.
The birthday issue comes with a gift of a menacing kit and 8 extra pages including tips on wheezes and japes and how to use the finger-snapping chewing gum packet, floating flies and parp as in fart whistle. Would-be menaces are supposed to sign the Menace Code. Another way to celebrate would be to visit the two exhibitions of originals which opened last week, in London at the Cartoon Museum and in Dundee , publishers D.
Everyone had a good sense of humour about it - after all, the pages on show were full of Dennis at his anarchic, menacing wildest, so no wonder some kids wanted to be Menaces themselves. As the "first born", in December , The Dandy reached 70 ahead of The Beano last December but not so much fuss was made about that.
For one thing, the weekly had been revamped as The Dandy Extreme and reduced to fortnightly, a drop in frequency not seen since the paper and ink shortages of the Second World War. Nick Park writes in the intro, " The Beano was my world when I was younger and has been a huge influence on my career since.
It was bought for me by my gran when I visited her every weekend and I read it from cover to cover⦠then I read it again. My brother and I were always thinking up ideas for inventions and we got lots of ideas from stories in The Beano. Back home, Fred wonders "if that quiet little kid will ever do anything with his drawings.
