The Legend of Lord Snooty and His Pals

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a b Chalmers, Tori. "A Brief History of 'The Beano', Scotland's Beloved Comic". Culture Trip. Archived from the original on 13 July 2021 . Retrieved 18 July 2021. Brown, Craig (4 September 1995). "Hattersley's school daze". Evening Standard. p.11. Archived from the original on 28 June 2021. A few members of the Ash Can Alley Gang, represented in the 2019 Beano Annual. [23] Left to right: Doubting Thomas, Lanky Liz (with Snitch in front), Rosie on Scrapper's shoulders, Snooty, and Big Fat Joe (with Snatch in front of him). The new friends from 1950 onwards [ edit ]

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Kerr, Euan, ed. (2 August 2003). "The Beano". No.3185. DC Thomson. {{ cite magazine}}: Cite magazine requires |magazine= ( help) Watkins was born in Prestwich, Lancashire, England. However, the family moved to Nottingham while he was still a baby. [2] His father was a lithographic print artist who noted the boy's early artistic talent and ensured he received extra art classes at the Nottingham School of Art. By the age of 10, the local newspaper declared him a "schoolboy genius." He studied at Nottingham School of Art, and while working for Boots Pure Drug company in the early 1920s, Watkins' first published artwork appeared in Boots' staff magazine, The Beacon. [3] Work with D.C. Thomson [ edit ] Moonie, who returned from the war a Captain once in charge of an assault craft at D-Day, would tell David Puttman he believed Lord Snooty did more for the war than him. [26] Alex, Stewart (8 June 2016). "Beano characters set for online rebirth". The Courier. Archived from the original on 11 July 2021 . Retrieved 18 July 2021.This country has more than four million children in poverty, with many thousands even of poor working households dependent on the mushrooming number of food banks for even basic subsistence. Life expectancy in the poorest parts of the UK had fallen by more than a year long before the start of the pandemic – and the gap in life expectancy between rich and poor is more than ten years. Rather than wanting to improve life for those people, the Tories recently flirted with slashing terms and conditions. Brewer, Susan (12 July 2011). The History of Girls' Comics. Casemate Publishers. ISBN 9781783408733. Readers participated in the magazine's record-breaking stunts. In 1988, 100 children helped Euan Kerr and Beano scriptwriter Al Bernard recreate the front cover of issue 2396 on Scarborough Beach with Hann-Made Productions. [263] It was awarded the Largest Comic Strip at 39950 square feet. [263] Beano 's 2018 comic competition to celebrate the opening of V&A Dundee was awarded the biggest competition to finish a comic strip with 650 participants. [264] The Beano eventually passed The Dandy 's sales by 100,000 copies. [55] but both magazines sometimes sold up to four million issues per week. [56]

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He was a devout Christian and an enthusiastic supporter of the Church of Christ in Dundee (where he met his wife). He contributed artwork for mission calendars, and from 1956 he produced (free of charge) [2] the comic strips William the Warrior and Tony & Tina – The Twins for The Young Warrior, a children's paper published by the WEC Publications. These strips, filled with quotations from Scripture, were collected into a series of booklets. In March 2008 a watercolour by Watkins depicting The Crucifixion was discovered in a house in Lochgelly, Fife. [6] Beano: Making Mischief!". Gulliver's Theme Park Resorts. Archived from the original on 7 July 2021 . Retrieved 18 July 2021. Gilchrist, Stuart, ed. (12 September 1942). "Lone Wolf". The Beano Comic. No.188. D.C. Thomson & Co. Ltd. (published 10 September 1942). Smith, Aidan. "Why oh why has political correctness hit the Beano?! Drat, urrgh, boo! – Aidan Smith". The Scotsman. Archived from the original on 11 July 2021 . Retrieved 18 July 2021.Watkins, Dudley D. (24 March 1945). Gilchrist, Stuart (ed.). "Six Brands For Bonnie Price Charlie". The Beano Comic. No.254. D.C. Thomson & Co. Ltd. (published 22 March 1945). Stirling, who was born in 1974 (the year, he says, Dennis the Menace ousted Biffo the Bear as the Beano's cover star), admits it's disappointing to go into schools and find that some kids haven't heard of the Beano. "Once they start reading it, though, they love it. It's our problem to make sure that in 25 years' time you're ringing me up on our 100th anniversary asking about the great new characters we've devised between now and then." Issues published weekly every Tuesday in 1938, [Note 6] [41] and when the magazine changed distribution to every two weeks, the day remained unchanged. [42] From issue 366, the day changed to Friday until issue 375 which began the Thursday publication day schedule. [33] Post-war changes (1945–1988) [ edit ] Stirling says the Beano can't rest on its laurels. "We've got to do what they do on Doctor Who – regenerate regularly so the Beano means something to the new generation of kids. But we've also got to make sure the whole family gets something from it." The Courier: Taking you to the heart of Tayside and Fife". Archived from the original on 21 August 2009 . Retrieved 2009-06-23.

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The Beano has had a few controversies throughout its lifetime, but aspects have either been discontinued, phased out or changed to not cause offence. Its infamous changes are the removal of corporal punishment (e.g. Dennis the Menace often depicted receiving bottom spanks with a slipper by his furious father) [265] and misbehaving characters abandoning slingshots—the latter irritating former readers for being a " politically correct" notion, usually highlighted with claim "Dennis has lost his menace". [266] [267] [268] [269] Peanut stands to the masthead's left holding watermellon. [270] Thomas – an indecisive boy, whose hair was shaped like a question mark, he originally had his own strip entitled Doubting Thomas (1940–1942, 1950–1990) Freeman, John. "British Comic Awards Shortlist announced, Beano artist Dudley D. Watkins enters 'Hall of Fame.'" DownTheTubes.net (OCTOBER 2, 2015). Kerr, Euan, ed. (27 February 1999). " The Beano". No.2954. DC Thomson. {{ cite magazine}}: Cite magazine requires |magazine= ( help)Cramond, Harold, ed. (13 April 1968). "Lord Snooty". The Beano. No.1343. Illustrated by Robert Nixon. D.C. Thomson & Co. Ltd. Lord Snooty the Third". The Beano. No.3440. Illustrated by Nigel Parkinson. D.C. Thomson & Co. Ltd. 12 July 2008. {{ cite magazine}}: CS1 maint: others ( link) Graham, Craig, ed. (28 June 2014). "Anyone For Menace?!". The Beano. DC Thomson (published 25 June 2014). New headline fonts were introduced (CCZoinks), circa 2007; the balloon font was also changed to Cloudsplitter by Blambot.

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Sadly, at no point in Dave Snooty and his Pals did the title character inspire his comrades to emulate his gentlemanly virtues, or show that he had become their leader because they had deferred to his innate moral worth. This would no doubt have improved the strip enormously.

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The central character was Lord Marmaduke of Bunkerton, but known to his friends as Snooty. The original premise was quite simple and conventional. It consisted of Snooty being fed up with living in a castle under the watchful eye of Aunt Matilda and doing things he didn't want to do, so when he had the chance, he would change into different clothes and have fun with his friends from Ash Can Alley. They were Scrapper Smith, Hairpin Huggins, Skinny Lizzie, Rosie, Happy Hutton, Gertie the goat and later Snitch and Snatch. This basic plot remained for the first few years. During the Second World War, however, the storylines began to change, and sometimes would consist of Snooty and his pals trying to foil the Nazis' (and sometimes even Hitler's) plans. After the war, the storylines became more like how they'd stay, and would often be set in the castle, despite the fact that the trash can alley gang were always present. Armstrong, Stephen (27 July 2015). "Was Pixar's Inside Out inspired by The Beano?". telegraph.co.uk. Archived from the original on 12 April 2018 . Retrieved 27 July 2015. Andy Murray guest-edits the Beano". The Guardian. 22 June 2014. Archived from the original on 13 September 2021 . Retrieved 13 September 2021. Kerr, Euan, ed. (18 February 1995). "Rasher". The Beano. No.2744. Illustrated by Dave Sutherland. D.C. Thomson & Co. Ltd. (published 16 February 1995). Snitch and Snatch – identical twins in babygrows who cause mischief and mayhem. They were the last members to join, first appearing in issue 18. [33]