Commando Panel at Glasgow ComicCon
Posted: 14 Jul 2013, 11:18
I was lucky enough to be in the audience for this panel. It was led by Ferg Handley, who has now written over 250 scripts for Commando. We also had Scott Montgomerie, the current Sub-Editor, George Low, the previous Editor and Cam Kennedy to represent the artists.
In discussion we learned that another prolific writer was a gent called Cyril Walker. And the most out-there scripts were mostly his. He wrote Wagger's War and also spent some time serving at Her Masjesty's Pleasure, during which time he could not be paid for his scripts. But he still wrote them longhand and sent them in. And none of his scripts, despite needing to be heavily edited for spelling and grammar, were ever rejected. One script in particular had Cyril asking if it was OK. George replied that it was as good as ever. To which Cyril replied. Oh good. That was Big Norm in C Wing's idea and I didn't want to upset him by telling him it had been rejected!
The reason for the distinctive Commando font was simple. DCT owned it! So another example of canny business acumen dictating how things went.
The format had the same sort of reasoning behind it. The pocket library format was due to one of the presses being set up to print in that size, so that was what was used.
Getting old meant that I missed a few bits and have not put everything in but I will try and recall as much as I can.
In discussion we learned that another prolific writer was a gent called Cyril Walker. And the most out-there scripts were mostly his. He wrote Wagger's War and also spent some time serving at Her Masjesty's Pleasure, during which time he could not be paid for his scripts. But he still wrote them longhand and sent them in. And none of his scripts, despite needing to be heavily edited for spelling and grammar, were ever rejected. One script in particular had Cyril asking if it was OK. George replied that it was as good as ever. To which Cyril replied. Oh good. That was Big Norm in C Wing's idea and I didn't want to upset him by telling him it had been rejected!
The reason for the distinctive Commando font was simple. DCT owned it! So another example of canny business acumen dictating how things went.
The format had the same sort of reasoning behind it. The pocket library format was due to one of the presses being set up to print in that size, so that was what was used.
Getting old meant that I missed a few bits and have not put everything in but I will try and recall as much as I can.