Charley's War

Original Joe Colquhoun art circa 1980. Well and truly liberated from the Compal auctions site. The last time I visited the Cartoon Museum in London they had some lovely Charley's War art on display.

Buy the books. Then ask Titan to reprint Charley's early WW2 adventures.

British Comics Podcasts

Kevin O'Neil talks to South London Hardcore about his life in comics and growing up in London.

And from those saucy people at ECBT2000AD comes a three-part interview with Pat Mills.
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If you have an interest in British comics you'll enjoy these. Be prepared for a bit of swearing during the ECBT2000AD interview though. ;)

Charley's War

A Joe Colquhoun original. Not mine unfortunately. More here.

Charley's War

A post Pat Mills Charley's War. Superlative art by Joe Colquhoun. Battle, 31st August 1985. Does anyone else feel that Titan should reprint this series after the WW1 episodes?

Charley's War

From Battle Action Force dated 16th March 1985. Art by the fabulous Joe Colquhoun. I have to admit I just love his work. The amount of research and detail put into Charley's War is fantastic. This particular episode is post Pat Mills and set during the early days of WW2 and Charley is back in uniform again. The script is by Scott Goodall. I quite like this second series, it doesn't have the moral indignation of Pat Mills' run, but it still rattles along and tells a good yarn about a period of time that you don't usually see documented in war comics. That time at the beginning of the war where everything was turning to custard for the allies as the Germans smashed their way across europe. Just look at the work that JC put into these pages.

I emailed Titan Books a while back and asked them whether the Charley's War reprints would carry on into the WW2 series. They said that (at that moment) they weren't too sure. I think it is a shame if they don't, because I feel that Charley's War stands as a testament to Joe Colquhoun and his career and it'd be nice to see the last proper series he worked on in print. Uh, that and Johnny Red which he worked on before Charley's War....