Editing Desperate Dan (section)

==History==
[[File:Desperate Dan.jpg|thumb|200px|left|The statue of Desperate Dan in [[Dundee]] City Centre]]
The strip was drawn by [[Dudley D. Watkins]] until his death in 1969. Although ''[[The Dandy Annual]]''s featured new strips from other artists from then on, the comic continued reprinting Watkins strips until 1983 (though the then [[Korky the Cat]] artist [[Charles Grigg]] drew new strips for annuals and summer specials), when it was decided to start running new strips. These were initially drawn by [[Peter Davidson (artist)|Peter Davidson]], but [[Ken H. Harrison]] soon took over as regular artist. The following year Dan was promoted to the front cover of ''The Dandy'', replacing Korky who had been there since issue 1. Starting from issue 2985, dated 6 February 1999, [[Cuddles and Dimples]] replaced Dan on the front cover. This did not last long, however, as after a readers' poll in 2000, Dan returned to the cover. Although Ken Harrison was the main artist from 1983 to 2007, other artists have also occasionally filled in for Harrison, including [[Thomas Williams (cartoonist)|Tom Williams]], [[David Parkins]], [[Trevor Metcalfe]] and Anthony Caluori in the early 1990s. [[John Geering]] took over the strip between 1994 and 1997, after which Harrison returned as full-time artist (though [[Steve Bright]] occasionally acted as a ghost artist as well). When ''The Dandy'' was redesigned and renamed ''Dandy Xtreme'', the writers used reprints of the old comic strips, until [[Jamie Smart]] took over drawing and writing the Desperate Dan comic strips in April 2008.

Desperate Dan's final appearance left his fate ambiguous after being caught in an oil well explosion.