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A Tendency to Inoffensiveness

'Desperate Dan doesn't have a gun any more, just a holster' said Dez Skinn, editor of Comics International, when he debated Where is Minnie the Minx Today? Have We Lost the Art of Subversion in Children's Comics with fellow panelists Guardian cartoonist Steve Bell and comics creators Woodrow Phoenix and Gavin Burrows on 13th March at Hove Museum. In the 50s and 60s characters could - and frequently did - get away with murder, as long as there was retribution at the end and re-appearance of the dearly departed in next week's issue, but by the end of the 70s and early 80s 'you weren't allowed to draw a club with a nail in it' according to Steve, who also noted the current 'tendency to inoffensiveness' among cartoonists today. Gavin Burrows spoke of how the image of Minnie the Minx, and her rebellious nature, was taken up by the anarchists in the 1980s. This was a very enjoyable contribution to the 3-year long celebration of the 50th anniversary of Leo Baxendale's Bash St Kids first appearance in The Beano. Many thanks to the panel and to the audience that included Brighton and Hove's Mayor Councillor Pat Drake, to whom it was respectfully pointed out that she didn't - as might have been expected - have a drawing pin stuck to her chair. You can still catch the show until 10th April at Hove Museum and Art Gallery, Church Road, Hove.
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