• Desperate Dan and his iconic snack
  • The dandy comic's desperate dan in a screenprint of a story title piece. He's wearing a blue hat and eating a pie showing horns and a tail
  • Desperate Dan and his iconic snack
  • Desperate Dan and his iconic snack
  • The dandy comic's desperate dan in a screenprint of a story title piece. He's wearing a blue hat and eating a pie showing horns and a tail
  • Desperate Dan and his iconic snack

Desperate Dan and his iconic snack

£48.00

The cow pie with horns and tail coming out of the pastry crust is such a great invention.

Hand-pulled screen print, printed one colour at a time with water-based inks.

The edition is limited to a maximum of just 200 prints.

The print is officially approved by the publisher, Britain's top comic publisher, DC Thomson of Dundee.

The paper is beautiful fine art paper, 300 gsm, mould-made, 100% cotton, milled at St Cuthbert's Mill in Somerset. It is acid-free and buffered with calcium carbonate (pH 7–9) for archival longevity. The paper has hand-torn and/or deckled (feathered) edges.

Signed, numbered and dated in pencil by me, the printer, John Patrick Reynolds.

Format options:
Standard size: 26cm x 19cm
Medium size: 48cm x 38cm
Large size: 76cm x 56cm

© D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd.

Dan made his appearance in the first issue of The Dandy in 1937. Which means he’s a true icon for many generations of British children. His main characteristic is his strength, he’s able to lift a cow with one hand.

The character was created by Dudley D Watkins, originally as an outlaw or ‘desperado’ (hence his name), but in time he turned into a goodie.

This is selected, like many of my panels and images, from the 1960s and 1970s, and should make a great gift to anybody who is into retro, vintage, old school design. I tend to choose material from this era because it was the time I was growing up and my tastes and preferences were being formed. But also it’s a pre-digital age, and the drawings are all made by hand rather than computer aided. Obviously, as I’m a screenprinter, I’m biased in favour of the handmade, so this style is right up my street. I hope it is yours.

The Beano and The Dandy are Britain's iconic sister comic magazines, both published by DC Thomson.  

The Dandy was launched on December 4, 1937 (making it The Beano’s older sibling). 

Famous characters include Desperate Dan (the world's strongest cowboy who loves cow pies) and Korky The Cat. The print weekly edition ended on December 4, 2012 (its 75th anniversary). It continues today through yearly specials, gift books, and annuals.The Beano was launched on July 30, 1938  which makes it the world's longest-running weekly comic magazine. Its famous characters include Dennis & Gnasher, Minnie the Minx, The Bash Street Kids, and Bananaman. It is still published weekly.Incidentally, the word beano is apparently short for "bean-feast" and means a feast, a celebration and a good time. 

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