Popeye And The Jackass General Frame:No frame Desperate Dan made his appearance

Desperate Dan made his appearance in the first issue of The Dandy – the sister comic to The Beano – which was dated 4 December 1937

Medium size: 48cm x 38cm - with spot red and blue

Large size: 56cms x 76cms – With dark blue jerkin – Edition of just 30

Korky is accepted by the human characters of the strip as another human – and he fights like a man

and the drawings are all made by hand rather than computer aided

Popeye And The Jackass General Frame:No frame Desperate Dan made his appearanceHandmade screen print on cotton paper. Signed and numbered out of 200 in pencil by the printer, John Patrick Reynolds. Standard size: 26cm x 19cm Popeye and Olive Oyl are an archetypal couple they are obviously attracted to each other, but they often fall out and row, often bitterly. Although the characters have been around for nearly 100 years, the way they behave seems quite modern. Heres a great fanpage about Popeye: http: www. math. pitt. edu