Comics UK

Isabel let me include two pages of her diary comics, which were available online at the time but aren't anymore, in the first issue of my small press anthology Sea Mouse (https://seamousecomic.blogspot.com/2010/). I only ever put out two issues. I have plenty of copies I will never sell, so if you ...

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Episodes so far on Jackpot, Nutty and Whoopee.
(I came across this, it has nothing to do with me!)

Liked her work very much, R.I.P.

My only complaints are that its not very critical of the Beano except a couple times. Including the artwork of the short lived Gordon Gnome story and the first series of the 2009 dennis cartoon. I feel kind of sorry for that artist. he's the only one the book criticises.




Eh? What does he ...

Don't know the strip but it's Peter Foster.

Thanks for the details on your Grandad, Max. It's not too surprising that you've not come across Cap'n Hood though Col as the strip only ran for 20 weeks in Sparky even though it was printed on full colour on the back page. It ran from No 212 (8/2/69) to No 231 (21/6/69) and it never appeared in ...

It's near Oxford Circus.

(BTW, I am aware that it was already reprinted by Hibernia but I never got round to buying it.)

Intrigued by the 13th Floor. I remember reading part of it reprinted in the early nineties Eagle monthly (?) where I also had my first taste of Charley's War. I remember it being a very interesting and transgressive story but I never read the whole thing.

Purchased several The best of Roy of the Rovers monthly on Amazon, never seen these before so keen to check them out.

There were two phases of that. The early issues reprinted a whole serial, or a story arc of a longer serial. This would take up the whole issue unless there was space left over ...

If they missed out Commando, maybe they overlooked other comics too (from English-speaking countries other than the US or UK, for example).

There was a time I would have given down payment with my soul for an early Dandy or Beano purely to find out WHAT THEY WERE LIKE but facsimile editions and the examples reprinted in the big "History of..." books have demystified them for me.
same for me they are very disappointing but i know it ...

There was a time I would have given down payment with my soul for an early Dandy or Beano purely to find out WHAT THEY WERE LIKE but facsimile editions and the examples reprinted in the big "History of..." books have demystified them for me.

One more thing about Rupert-
When I was on my summer hols this year I noticed that the tourist information centre (!) at Minehead had loads of old Rupert Annuals, all priced the same low price (£2 I think it was) regardless of era. Wonder if they've sold them yet.

Just to be pedantic for a bit, Rupert isn't really a comic in the sense of pics and word balloons - known to me and others as a balloon strip. It falls into the category of a text strip, a very common form in many British comics. You find the same format and variations of it in comics and newspaper ...