The last edition of the Dandy has just hit newsagent shelves. Technically, it’s not the end. The comic will continue to appear online. But this feels like the end. It’s a bit like when Blue Peter stopped being on BBC 1.
The Daily Telegraph attempted to assess why the comic might be folding when news of The Dandy imminent demise was announced in August.
“Political correctness,” Michael Leapman claimed. “It meant toning down the violence and, in the school-based strips, stopping teachers from taking the cane or the slipper to recalcitrant pupils”.
It is an odd suggestion. The Telegraph is often inclined to blame political correctness for everything in the world, but here they seem even less on the money than usual. Would The Dandy really have survived had the teacher characters in the stories still been allowed to cane the child characters? Wouldn’t this seem a bit odd, in…
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