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The Dandy

The Dandy is a long running children's comic published in the United Kingdom by D. C. Thomson & Co. Ltd. The first issue was printed in 1937 and it is the world's third longest running comic, after Detective Comics and Il Giornalino...

 character. For other uses see Blinky (disambiguation)

Blinky (disambiguation)

Blinky may refer to:Characters:* Blinky, the three-eyed fish from the animated television sitcom The Simpsons* Blinky , a character in the UK comic The Dandy...

Blinky was a fictional character in a comic strip

Comic strip

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 in the UK

United Kingdom

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 comic

Comic book

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 The Dandy

The Dandy

The Dandy is a long running children's comic published in the United Kingdom by D. C. Thomson & Co. Ltd. The first issue was printed in 1937 and it is the world's third longest running comic, after Detective Comics and Il Giornalino...

, about a boy with large, thick glasses

Glasses

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 and the chaos he always causes, as what he sees through his glasses is a galaxy different from the rest of the world. His trusty sidekick, Yellow Dog, always seems to get caught up in Blinky's adventures, and is very keen to get rid of him.

When Blinky first appeared in The Beezer and Topper

Topper (comic book)

The Topper was a UK comic published by D. C. Thomson & Co. Ltd that ran from 7 February 1953 to 15 September 1990, when it merged with The Beezer....

in 1990, the design of the character seemed to be a younger version of an earlier Beezer comic strip called Colonel Blink

Colonel Blink

Colonel Blink was a fictional character in a comic strip in the UK comic The Beezer, first appearing in November 1958. Denis Gifford in his Encyclopedia of Comic Characters attributes his creation to "Carmichael." These days he occasionally appears in the reprint Classics from the Comics series...

. However, when The Beezer and Topper folded, and Nick Brennan

Nick Brennan

Nick Brennan is a British cartoonist who works mainly for D. C. Thomson & Co. Ltd. He started drawing for the company in 1993, drawing a revival of Peter Piper From The Dandy, revived from The Magic Comic, but looking nothing like Watkins' creation, instead sporting an elvis-like hairdo and purple...

 began drawing the strip in January 1994, Blinky took on a new look that was now quite unlike Colonel Blink. The design was altered further over the next few years.

Following the relaunch in late 2007, Nick Brennan

Nick Brennan

Nick Brennan is a British cartoonist who works mainly for D. C. Thomson & Co. Ltd. He started drawing for the company in 1993, drawing a revival of Peter Piper From The Dandy, revived from The Magic Comic, but looking nothing like Watkins' creation, instead sporting an elvis-like hairdo and purple...

, the artist, left the Dandy, and so there were no Blinky strips being produced from then on. However, from issue 3438 in January 2008, the character has returned as reprints from the late 1990s.
Nick Brennan came back in September 2011 with his strip Watch this Space.