Comics UK

Over on this blog (and elsewhere ) they're discussing a page of original Marvel art that was on sale for $50,000, but looks like it may be a fake. I'll track down the UK reprints, as they also used stats of the original art as supplied by Marvel at the time. If the job number doesn't appear on the ...

Heres a better example.. Yes, that's a good example of what I mean! Maybe I'm getting old (OK, there's no 'maybe' about it) but a lot of comic characters seem badly behaved and shallow. I know, Yes, I know, that's the whole point, it's a kids' comic for pity's sake! :) But Belinda is different . Sh...

I got an old "best of Whizzer and Chips" comic from a charity shop, which included several pages of "Bewitched Belinda." I'm ashamed to say I never noticed before (or more likely forgot), but Reg Parlett was an AMAZINGLY good artist. And does anyone know who wrote that strip? The writing seems a cut...

Al, you are a gentleman and a scholar, and generations of Badtime fans will be forever in your debt. I am pleased to announce that (as far as I can tell) the main badtime checklist is now complete! Or will be sometime over the weekend when I upload the final piece of the jigsaw. Ladies and gentlemen...

Sorry if I'm posting this in the wrong place - I couldn't find the Badtime thread from the old board. (Unless it was deleted because it was shallow self-promotion :) Thanks to the generosity of folks from this site (and elsewhere) I now have scans of all the badtime books on my site... except one: C...

Spencer wrote:my subscriber number is something like 2844.... Is that gonna be enough ? I kinda doubt it...

I hope they started at 1. When I ran my own business I started the order numbers at some arbitrary figure, like 1000. For exactly the reason that "order number 003" spooks customers.

This is probably stating the obvious, but are you sure you have your scanner set on the highest resolution, and the artwork is flat, and you're not processing it the wrong way afterwards? I got my scanner for fifteen quid off eBay a couple of years ago, and it's bog-standard ordinary, and always giv...

There's an article on the DFC in yesterday(Thursday)'s Daily Mail, and it's pretty positive. Page 53, in Femail, entitled "Cripes! At last, REAL comics are making a comeback - and I can't wait for my weekly fix"

Are you sure it wasn't the Trigan Empire?

How does YouTube manufacture and distribute all those video cassettes?

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