Who is desperate dan

Watkins and Dandy editor Albert Barnes , the latter of whom also provided the inspiration for Dan's massive chin and who wrote the strip for the first several years. Watkins drew the strip until and his sudden demise from a heart attack while at his drawing board; as a mark of respect, Barnes, then still editing the Dandy, refused to let another artist take over the strip, and for the next fourteen years Dan's adventures consisted of reprints of earlier, Watkins-drawn, stories.

Barnes retired in , and a year later the new editor finally commissioned new Desperate Dan strips. In Desperate Dan replaced Korky the Cat as the cover star. Dan hails from the wild west town of Cactusville.

He was originally a bit of a desperado on the wrong side of the law hence his name, Desperate Dan. He later on became a friendlier character helping his fellow town folk and even becoming deputy and sheriff of Cactusville from time to time. Dan is arguably the strongest and toughest man in the world.

Examples of his strength have been lifting whole buildings and using a crane to fish. He also uses a blow torch and chisel to shave. He like's nothing more than to tuck into a huge cow-pie which seems to be made of a whole cow with even its horns and tail sticking out of the pastry.

Desperate Dan's family includes his Aunt Aggie , who makes him his cow-pies, and his nephew and niece, Danny and Katey. When Dan asks Danny and Katy the quickest way around a hill.

Danny goes over it and Katy goes round it. Dan goes straight through it, leaving a silhouette of himself in the hillside. My mum would go out every Saturday morning to buy my Beano and Dandy; and sometimes Topper which did not have the same appeal although larger but not so many memorable characters apart from Jonah who like Uncle Albert in Only Fools and Horses sank more ships than he actually sailed in.

After seeing the Dandy headquarters being demolished and its staff queuing outside an unemployment office, Dan sells all of his worldly goods to save the comic and is welcomed back to Cactusville as a hero. In The Dandy received a general overhaul; an issue without Desperate Dan was shown to focus groups of children, who objected to his absence. He still enjoyed his cow pies, despite erroneous claims to the contrary from critics of the redesign, [6] although his six-shooters and spurs were removed from his costume.

Harrison continued to draw the strip until the comic now The Dandy Xtreme once again began reprinting Watkins' strips, [7] some of them colourised. While smart provided the weekly strips, The and Dandy annuals featured a more traditional Dan drawn by Nigel Parkinson. Jamie Smart's run on Dan lasted through to the penultimate print issue of The Dandy.

In the final edition, Ken Harrison once again drew the strip; the story ended with Dan finally walking into the sunset. A partially-animated incarnation of the strip, entitled "The Legend of Desperate Dan", is a regular feature in the digital relaunch of The Dandy. Dan was, throughout a large portion of The Dandy' s run, its cover star. He first replaced the original cover star, Korky the Cat , in After Watkins' death the comic continued reprinting his strips until though the then " Korky the Cat " artist Charles Grigg drew new strips for annuals and summer specials , when it was decided to start running new strips.

These were initially drawn by Peter Davidson , but Ken H. Harrison soon took over as regular artist. Starting from issue , dated 6 February , " Cuddles and Dimples " replaced Dan on the front cover.

This didn't last long, however, as after a readers' poll in , Dan returned to the cover.