Desperate Dan statue striding through Dundee,UK
Desperate Dan the Cactusville cowboy character is a mighty fine mixture of strength, stamina and stupidity. Since he was a baby, Dan was surely destined to be a cowboy, with his six-shooter water pistols, ten-gallon baby bonnet and matchin' TWELVE-gallon nappy, spurs on his booties an' his horse-drawn he grew up he grew stronger, cos of the cow-pies cooked up by his Aunt Aggie. Not even Dan knows the secret recipe (though ah reckon one of the ingredients might just be cow). At school, Dan broke records in gym class for bein' strongest, fastest an' fittest. He also broke the gym class an' most of the school buildin' when his skippin' started an earthquake an' his divin' created a tidal wonderin' what the "Desperate" stands for in "Desperate Dan"? Dan's best friend is his Dawg, the hardiest hound around. Between them, they aim to make the Wild West a whole lot wilder! The strip was drawn by Dudley D. Watkins until his death in 1969. Although The Dandy Annuals featured new strips from other artists from then on, the comic continued reprinting Watkins strips until 1983 (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. The following year Dan was promoted to the front cover of The Dandy, replacing Korky who had been there since issue 1. Starting from issue 2985, dated 6 February 1999, Cuddles and Dimples replaced Dan on the front cover. This didn't last long, however, as after a readers' poll in 2000, Dan returned to the cover. Although Ken Harrison was the main artist from 1983 to 2007, other artists have also occasionally filled in for Harrison, including Bill Ritchie and Trevor Metcalfe in the early 1990s. John Geering took over the strip between 1995 and 1997, after which Harrison returned as full-time artist (though Steve Bright occasionally acted as
Size: 5120px × 3413px
Location: Dundee Angus [Tayside] Scotland United Kingdom
Photo credit: © Dundee Photographics / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
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