Crazy for Daisy

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Crazy for Daisy
Current/last artist Nick Brennan
First appearance Issue 2865
(June 14 1997)
Last appearance Ongoing
Regular characters Daisy, Ernest Valentine

Crazy for Daisy is a comic strip in the UK comic The Beano. First appearing in issue 2865, dated 14 June 1997, it was part of an ongoing selection of six comic strips that were to be voted into the comic by readers. This strip (along with Tim Traveller) was the winner, beating Camp Cosmos, Have a Go Jo, Sydd and Trash Can Ally. It is drawn by Nick Brennan.

The strip revolves around Ernest Valentine, a boy who is hopelessly in love with a girl called Daisy. Daisy, however, has no feelings at all for Ernest, who is very stupid, but Ernest always fails to get the message. He follows her around and even pops out of cakes to see her. Usually, by the end of the strip, Daisy ends up going out with another man who is in some way connected with the strip, e.g. a fireman that gets called out. Daisy has only one set of clothes, and, not counting the earliest strips, never wears anything else. In one strip she opens her wardrobe and she has lots of the same set of clothes and then goes out to buy more.

For a while Joe King's Joke Corner was at the bottom of this strip, but was moved later on.