A LEADING expert in comics has argued that, despite declining readership and growing competition from television, computer games and the internet, there will always be a place for the genre in Scottish culture.
A LEADING expert in comics has argued that, despite declining readership and growing competition from television, computer games and the internet, there will always be a place for the genre in Scottish culture.
SUN SETTING? Desperate Dan may be riding into an uncertain future, but while the internet has been a challenge for the comic one expert believes it could also be an opportunity.
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SUSAN SWARBRICK
Dr Chris Murray, who lectures in Comic Studies at Dundee University, spoke out after it emerged the UK's oldest children's comic, the Dandy, is facing closure.
The academic said fans of the 75-year-old comic, published by Dundee-based DC Thomson, should not give up hope as it could survive online or be merged with sister title the Beano.
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