Buster's big five-0

[NP]

...Tom Thug strip you put on your 50 years of Buster blog, Lew? The issue's dated for the day I was born!

Now Lew feels younger than ever!

[Lew Stringer]

...Tom Thug strip you put on your 50 years of Buster blog, Lew? The issue's dated for the day I was born!

Now Lew feels younger than ever!

It's all relative timey-wimey stuff, or something.

It raises an interesting point though that the comics that some of us still consider recent (and, to me, that 1994 issue of Buster is still very recent) are quite old by definitions of younger readers. Which of course is the natural way of things.

You know you're getting old when the readers are younger than your characters.

[bustercomic]

I never thought of Tom Thug aging, Lew! Do you think he's got little thug-lets of his own now?

Anywho, just dropped by to blow my own proverbrial trumpet and point out you can now read the words of Allen Cummings, Buster editor from 1981 to 1999 and the last interview with Jack Edward Olivier before his death in 2007 courtesy of our former sister site bustercomic.com

We've also added yet another name. Resize artist, Gordon Robson has agreed to talk to the site, and I'll get working on that interview soon!

Matt

[NP]

Gordon Robson! I remember that name! I'm pretty sure he showed me how to resize back in the day!

[Raven]

Just read the Allen Cummings interview; a very nice read - good stuff! Thanks for conducting and publishing this.

I think I spotted a typo. 'Terry Brave' should surely be 'Terry Bave.'

[Peter Gray]

Great to read..

Also reading Jack's was nice...I sure miss him..

Maybe Terry Bave could be interviewed when he worked at Buster..

[Digifiend]

Just noticed JE Oliver's alias Sue Denim - psudonym! Clever name.
http://www.bustercomic.co.uk/fiftieth.html

[AndyB]

Gordon also did a pile of lettering for 2000AD. One question I sometimes pondered - are Gordon Robson and Kid Robson two different people?

[Lew Stringer]

Gordon also did a pile of lettering for 2000AD. One question I sometimes pondered - are Gordon Robson and Kid Robson two different people?

No, they're the same person.

[Peter Gray]

I've had a sort out at the blog..here is all the posts I've done on Buster comic..

http://petergraycartoonsandcomics.blogs ... er%20comic

[bustercomic]

Just read the Allen Cummings interview; a very nice read - good stuff! Thanks for conducting and publishing this.

I think I spotted a typo. 'Terry Brave' should surely be 'Terry Bave.'

So there was I about to laugh in your face and smugly correct you before thinking....I better check this.

Since I first picked up a Buster comic, with the Imagine section on the back page I always had his name down as Terry Brave.

Today, for the first time, I realise you are indeed correct, it is only Bave.

That's a shed load of typos I need to correct now

Thanks for point that out, Raven......how stupid do I feel right now

[Lew Stringer]

Just read the Allen Cummings interview; a very nice read - good stuff! Thanks for conducting and publishing this.

I think I spotted a typo. 'Terry Brave' should surely be 'Terry Bave.'

So there was I about to laugh in your face and smugly correct you before thinking....I better check this.

Since I first picked up a Buster comic, with the Imagine section on the back page I always had his name down as Terry Brave.

Today, for the first time, I realise you are indeed correct, it is only Bave.

That's a shed load of typos I need to correct now

Thanks for point that out, Raven......how stupid do I feel right now

Never mind. It's a brave man who admits his mistakes.

[bustercomic]

Can you be certain of that Lew....

or is it a BAVE man?

[bustercomic]

Gordon's Interview is now up online

www.bustercomic.co.uk/gordonrobson.html

[stevezodiac]

I pulled out a few Busters at the weekend from around 1991/1992. I noticed Lew had written a several part history of the comics series and also that those issues featured artist profiles in several issues. Good to see what they looked like even if they were self portrait caricatures.