Comics UK

She looks like the Sunday comics
She thinks she's Brenda Starr

- Blondie, Rip Her To Shreds

Thanks Bruce!

I thought we had a longer thread about this somewhere but I can't find it. (The link steelclaw provides above is broken for me). From Flanders and Swann's the Spider: What a frightful looking beast - Half an inch across at least - It would frighten even Superman or Garth! There's contempt it can't d...

My Summer Specials seem to have suffered the ravages of time more than my other comics, too. Another reason is that the larger size of the DCT ones meant that they couldn't be stored in a neat pile with my other comics. I loved the Bananaman ones of the late eighties drawn entirely by John Geering (...

Digifiend wrote:Must've been a freelancer. Strange that, considering that the two companies poached Robert Nixon from each other. I would've thought DCT at least wouldn't have used freelanders until later.

I think in this case "poach" means offering the artist a higher page rate, or more work, or both.

R.I.P.
Only yesterday came across two stories illustrated by him in a Thunderbirds collection I got out of the library.

Thanks, Rab! Forgot to say most of my stuff is for sale- there are five paintings in my etsy shop at the moment. https://www.etsy.com/shop/sparkledebacle I also do commissions. (Working on one at the moment). Can do portraits, landscapes, pets, still lives, buildings, anything really. Thanks for loo...

Please feel free to look at my artwork, and to "follow" me if you have a tumblr account.

http://sparkledebacle.tumblr.com/

In the 90s Image US bought out a short series called BIG BANG COMICS which was a collection of comics imitating the golden age style of superheroes.The interesting thing is that around the third issue they produced a comic number 0 and that must be a first.Inside the comic they give a long explanat...

Good luck with your new version of the Sparky File, Alan. If you'd like it proof-read for free I'd be happy to do it.

I had never heard of Sparky till I saw my my first Sparky annual at a second hand shop. It was the final one, and it had lots of reprints in it. Even as a child I recognised they must be reprints, because they were presented in twelve-panels per page format, in contradistinction to the six-panels pe...

She could have been in both annuals!

I never commented on Old Freddy's post at the time but I read it and nodded. His argument convinced me.

What's also amusing is how in America, it was the right-wingers who were anti-horror comics as they were seen as corruptive, yet in the UK it was the left-wingers who were anti-horror comics, as they were seen as imposing American ideals on Britain. Amused me, anyway. I think prime mover Fredric We...

I agree with you, Paw. Maybe most of us feel that way since there's only been fifteen votes in this poll that has been running nine years. Try voting. It doesn't work. There was an issue with voting forms years ago. As was revealed a while back when we were voting on a far more serious question, yo...

I agree with you, Paw. Maybe most of us feel that way since there's only been fifteen votes in this poll that has been running nine years.