THE Dandy, best known for cow-pie munching cartoon character Desperate Dan, is facing closure after 75 years. The UK’s oldest children’s comic is expected to be pulled once its publishers ...

Cartoon capers: At its most popular between the 1950s and the 1980s, the adventures of cow pie-eating Desperate Dan (above) and Korky the Cat sold two million copies a week ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Is it far-fetched to see parallels between Desperate Dan, the cartoon character from the comic Dandy, and ...