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George has faced dragons, medieval mayhem and the sort of heroic confusion that makes a perfectly sensible plan collapse before lunchtime. A time-travelling…

For readers who grew up rifling through issues of The Dandy, Boo! remains one of the most peculiar characters to ever haunt its pages. A spectral troublemaker…

Andy Fanton has been tickling British and Australian funny bones for years with his chaotic cast of comic characters, and now his beloved mischief-maker Bad…

A silent comic strip has to communicate through action, expression, timing and design rather than speech balloons. Every panel becomes a small piece of visual…

When a comic panel needs to land a punch of panic, the face carries most of the weight. Readers scan the eyes and mouth before they read the rest of the…

Carrotty Kid is one of those mischievous youngsters who has turned up again and again in the pages of The Dandy, the long-running British comic that found a…

When Andy Fanton draws the medieval realm of his comedy creations, the result feels less like a dusty tapestry and more like a Saturday arvo at the footy where…

Andy Fanton's Boo! has always found comedy in the wrong place at the wrong time, and the latest adventure leans hard into that premise. A friendly ghost…

Andy Fanton's comic strip legend Bad Grandad has always been a worry for anyone within a five-kilometre radius. Originally published in The Dandy, the…

A castle is a terrific setting for a comic strip because it gives every character somewhere to hide, scheme, fall through, or accidentally set on fire. Its…