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The DFC Weekly Comic

Description: A weekly kids comic series.

Newest Review: ... Excerpts of DFC stories appear there each week. It is fair to say that if your child enjoys the Guardian's Comic section, ... more

... they will love the DFC. However, to compare the two is like comparing a christmas tree to Blackpool illuminations. The DFC is 36 pages of high quality, high octane colour. It is funded purely by subscription. There are no adverts whatsoever. Simply cartoons and graphic stories. Each week features to up 14 different cartoons and graphic stories. The variety of styles of story and artwork is vast. Comic shorts, reminiscent of 'newpaper funnies' such as Peanuts and Calvin and Hobbes sit along...more

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The DFC Weekly Comic: The DFC - a Damn Fine Comic (1037 words)
by - written on 22/01/09 (Very useful, 188 readings)
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Next time you go into the newsagents or magazine section of a supermarket, take a minute to look at the bottom shelves. There, just below the bare breasts of Nuts magazine, the glossy consumerism of Cosmo and and the agony and ecstacy of Slimmers World, is the children's section. A raggle taggle mixture of television spin offs and boy obsessed pop magazines. Free gifts feature heavily on the front pages. Advertisements feature even more heavily inside. The Dandy and the Beano are still hanging on in there - but only just, and their hand drawn pages look anaemic compared with the high colour photos of the brasher new comers. ... Read the complete review