Comics UK

There were certainly WC strips in Tiger and Roy of the Rovers (see link below) but I cant recall many specific strips following the WC in a strip from start to finish (other than the one page historical/factual strips that appeared in the in the Tiger in the 70s etc) and a World Cup Willie (England ...

You have to admit if you are being honest and objective, that if you tell people as a big 30 plus hairy year old grown up that you still read the Beano you have to accept you'll get a strange(and to me understandable) reaction (as long ass its not offensive) and folk in general don't see too much of...

Has to be IPCs relaunch of Smash in 1970s great line up of strips (new and reprint) and great artists including Leo Baxendales stellar Swots and the Blotts , and Sams Ghost, Don Lawrence on Erik the Viking, Janus Starrk, His Sporting Lordship, and the Fighting three by Carlos Cruz (he did other amaz...

Wonderful stuff I have never seen or even heard about this before

I picked up a few comics over the weekend , was at the Panopticon comic mart in Glasgow on Saturday had the option of Beezer 1968 annual for £2 but didn't pick it up as was over my limit by time I saw it (trying to slim down my collection!) but got; Savage Sword of Conan 4 (Neal Adams, Gil Kane art)...

Thanks again for the info on the Panopticon event managed to get 3 comics/mags (including a nice copy of "Savage Sword of Conan" 4 with Adams/Kane art for £5) I was after all very reasonable prices plus a few old "House of Mystery", "Witching Hours" and a run of " Seduction of the Innocents" comics ...

I actually tried to track down a copy of the "Phoenix" at the weekend and went (via 2 trains ok 1 train 1 and subway train) to the West end of Glasgow to Waitrose (last I read they stocked it) and not a copy to be found I asked and they hadn't heard of it and suggested the Beano (still I got some ni...

I picked the latest "Captain America" issue 10 and IDWs "Judge Dredd Classics" issue 2 which was really good with Bolland, Dillon etc art although the pages are in a strange format to cope with the UK to US format changes I also picked up the the last issue of "CLiNT" -Also picke dup up a bunch of 5...

Its got to be the mix of strips for me in the style of Buster, Wham, Smash etc I thin the all humour approach of todays Beano is missing something even an adventure cartoon style strip would be good (IMHO)

Thanks for that info David and the links, I will make sure I pop in to the Sept mart not been to a comic mart in many a year

I missed the Collectormania event I'm afraid - from the press ads it seemed to be more of a TV/Movie event, looks like it was my loss - Will definitely try to get to the Memeorabilia fair though - had no idea there was a regular monthly event in the city centre thanks for that info (probably wont ha...

Some of the "Swots and the Blots" (his "looser" style) from Smash (the IPC version where I think he unveiled this version/style of his work) are to me some of the best humour strips ever created - he kept up that amazing amount of "fun" in his art (along with some fantastic cartooning on the underra...

I wasn't aware of that Marionette thanks for the info (Orange, Indigo and Purple etc lol) - to add to the good cartoons worth checking out, although its not a super hero but Samurai Jack is another that is well worth looking out for (and its on Cartoon Network at 9:30pm in the UK) excellent stuff.

For me it was the Mighty World of Marvel the pure excitement of seeing this in the first place, featuring the early Spider-man, FF and Hulk (the Daredevil etc) I thought this book was on top form for nearly 2 years worth of issues showing Kirby's (etc) great work on FF, Trimpe and Severin's work on ...

I was also put off with the stupid title he gave the book and I doubt the casual reader got it - I certainly wasn't a great fan of CLint to begin with but enjoyed it after the refresh (vol 2) and loved the new format with the larger pages, non glossy paper and articles etc - I do like Millars work (...