Try it if you dare — competition to design a comic strip for The Beano and The Dandy

The Dare ProtoPlay video games festival is set to take over the city next month and organisers have teamed up with The Beano and The Dandy to search for the comic strip designers of the future.

By Jennifer Cosgrove
Published in the Courier : 08.07.11
Published online : 09.07.11 @ 08.31am

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Organised and run by Abertay University and sponsored by Intel Corporation, the festival will be held in the Caird Hall from August 12-14 and will feature a range of games-related fun for all.

It will also showcase brand-new video games built by teams of students currently taking part in the nine-week Dare to be Digital competition in Dundee.

To add to the fun, DC Thomson — creator of The Beano, The Dandy and many other memorable comic books — is running a comic strip design competition along with Dare ProtoPlay open to entrants aged 13 and below.

All budding artists have to do dream up a 10-frame comic strip on a video games-related subject using a PC or Mac then, with the permission of a parent or guardian, send their entry in via the Dare to be Digital website.

Entrants can choose from Dennis the Menace and Gnasher, Minnie the Minx, Bananaman and Dandy favourite Desperate Dan picking one or more these characters to star in the comic strip, as well as creating new characters and coming up with an exciting story.

All shortlisted entries will be displayed during Dare ProtoPlay and the winners will be announced at an awards ceremony on August 14.

The winning entry will be displayed on the websites of The Beano, The Dandy and Dare ProtoPlay. The winner will have the chance to visit the DC Thomson offices to see how the process works and help put together pages for the comic. Runners-up will have their storyboards displayed on the websites and will receive Beano and Dandy merchandise.

Beano editor Mike Stirling and Dandy editor Craig Graham will be judging the winning entries.