I’m saving that Biffo for later. I think it would make a good reaction image.
Well, the art’s good, anyway.
Fuck, I think I owned this.
It’s alright we deserve every bit of ridicule for making this.
The weirdest thing is it isn’t English, it’s Scottish
I remember having several Beano books I inherited from my older brothers. They were incredibly surreal, to say the least.
See you mentioned the Beano and the Dandy, which usually just got rip offs of the Beano, Rodger the Dodger? How about “Winker Watson”?
As a Scot it took me many years to work out why “Jocks and the Geordies” is offensive. I’m still not sure.
Also, my parents bought the Beano for my big brother, who grew up into a generic gammon
They bought me the Dandy and I grew up into a very queer adult
Better not look any further into that
I remember reading these magazines with a queazy sense of disbelief when I was a kid! (Why were the characters so hideous?) I couldn’t stop though. I’m a New Zealander so it was full of puzzling cultural details. For example, boys who had done good deeds were always awarded huge plates of mashed potatoes and sausages at the end of the story. Not by their parents, but by neighbours and strangers. It was the best thing ever when random people cooked you sausages. Maybe the UK was still under wartime rationing in the Eighties?
I would be FASCINATED to watch a Millennial American investigate Viz magazine, which was a counter-cultural satire of these magazines for adults/adult-presenting schoolboys, eventually outgrew them in popularity and continues publication to this day.
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9 replies on “Nerding Day: The Beano Book 1987”
I’m saving that Biffo for later. I think it would make a good reaction image.
Well, the art’s good, anyway.
Fuck, I think I owned this.
It’s alright we deserve every bit of ridicule for making this.
The weirdest thing is it isn’t English, it’s Scottish
I remember having several Beano books I inherited from my older brothers. They were incredibly surreal, to say the least.
See you mentioned the Beano and the Dandy, which usually just got rip offs of the Beano, Rodger the Dodger? How about “Winker Watson”?
As a Scot it took me many years to work out why “Jocks and the Geordies” is offensive. I’m still not sure.
Also, my parents bought the Beano for my big brother, who grew up into a generic gammon
They bought me the Dandy and I grew up into a very queer adult
Better not look any further into that
I remember reading these magazines with a queazy sense of disbelief when I was a kid! (Why were the characters so hideous?) I couldn’t stop though. I’m a New Zealander so it was full of puzzling cultural details. For example, boys who had done good deeds were always awarded huge plates of mashed potatoes and sausages at the end of the story. Not by their parents, but by neighbours and strangers. It was the best thing ever when random people cooked you sausages. Maybe the UK was still under wartime rationing in the Eighties?
I would be FASCINATED to watch a Millennial American investigate Viz magazine, which was a counter-cultural satire of these magazines for adults/adult-presenting schoolboys, eventually outgrew them in popularity and continues publication to this day.