Sunday, 7 February 2010

Professor Branestawm

Another slight deviation: WHeath Robinson circa 1933. Lovely stuff. Not exactly British comics: just comically British... More info here.

Friday, 5 February 2010

The Pick of Punch 1944

World War Two humour. Amazing how people find humour even in adversity. My hat goes off to those ladies and gents who lived through those times.

Fireball XL5

Balloon heads. Ron Turner's trying to draw the characters with big heads like their puppet counterparts in the TV show, but subconsciously he's fighting against it. From the Fireball XL5 annual 1967.







Thursday, 4 February 2010

Jeff Hawke

Pre-digital Brian Bolland. Titan Books circa 1986.

Paddy Payne

Ah, Joe Colquhoun: your art is making the sexy time with my eyeballs.
Ahem...

Illustrations from a text story in the Lion annual 1962.

Tuesday, 2 February 2010

The Spellbinder

Geoff Campion art from Lion dated 22nd July 1972.

Sylvester Turville: a kind've cut-price Dumbledore, but with a hangover and dog-ends thrown in.



Space Ace

I always enjoy looking at Ron Turner's sci-fi work. His future was always SO shiny. This example is from Lone Star, 'Vol 4, No.2' which I think is from the early 1950's, but I may be wrong...

More RS here, here and me old web site here.