Saturday, 16 October 2010
Thursday, 14 October 2010
They Fought a Duel
...With Railway Engines! Another mouthful of a title. Art by Graham Coton from Lion, dated 19th March 1966.
Tuesday, 12 October 2010
El Mestizo
By Carlos Ezquerra. Battle dated 25th June 1977. In an interview conducted a few years ago CS was asked:
Of all the strips you've been part of over the years, which one would you most like to bring back if you could?
I wouldn't mind to bring back El Mestizo, it appeared in Battle with Alan Hebden script, about a black guy caught in the middle of the American civil war, he wasn't very popular (a black hero in the earlier seventies!) but I think it was a nice character.
Of all the strips you've been part of over the years, which one would you most like to bring back if you could?
I wouldn't mind to bring back El Mestizo, it appeared in Battle with Alan Hebden script, about a black guy caught in the middle of the American civil war, he wasn't very popular (a black hero in the earlier seventies!) but I think it was a nice character.
Monday, 11 October 2010
Charlie Peace
Art by Tom Kerr. Buster, 11th December 1965. I love the grin on Charlie's fizzog on frame four of page one. Very Albert Steptoe. 'Aaaarold!'
Saturday, 9 October 2010
You Know Their Names
... but..! Did you know what they did? Jeez, that title's a mouthful. Anyway, this week in Lion dated 14th December 1963, it was Samuel Colt. Below is some nice art by Gerry Embleton.
Anyone listen to America: Empire of Liberty on BBC radio? Quite an interesting show, each episode in quite digestible chunks. Anyway, back to the scheduled program:
Anyone listen to America: Empire of Liberty on BBC radio? Quite an interesting show, each episode in quite digestible chunks. Anyway, back to the scheduled program:
Dan Dare
An original piece of art by Keith Watson. You'll find it living here.
A nice opening page for this weeks episode. Although, personally, I feel there was something lacking in KW's work on Dan Dare when compared to Hampson and Bellamy. Hampson was the great technician, you could imagine those spaceships really flying. Bellamy made the whole thing so damn dynamic and exciting. To me KW fell inbetween both camps. He could draw the hardware at times, but then there's an emptiness to some of his frames, whereas Hampson would have some wonderful doo-hicky, or some thoughtful piece of architecture in the background. With Bellamy, his characters were caught off-balance and always on the move. KW's people seem to mime the movements. Don't get me wrong, I love Keith Watson's work, but there is something 'missing' in his Dare work. It might just be the simple fact that he didn't have the time to take the time, with pressures of deadlines etc. Although, when you compare this work to some of his contemporaries, this art knocks the ball out of the field. It's all relative innit, Guv?
A nice opening page for this weeks episode. Although, personally, I feel there was something lacking in KW's work on Dan Dare when compared to Hampson and Bellamy. Hampson was the great technician, you could imagine those spaceships really flying. Bellamy made the whole thing so damn dynamic and exciting. To me KW fell inbetween both camps. He could draw the hardware at times, but then there's an emptiness to some of his frames, whereas Hampson would have some wonderful doo-hicky, or some thoughtful piece of architecture in the background. With Bellamy, his characters were caught off-balance and always on the move. KW's people seem to mime the movements. Don't get me wrong, I love Keith Watson's work, but there is something 'missing' in his Dare work. It might just be the simple fact that he didn't have the time to take the time, with pressures of deadlines etc. Although, when you compare this work to some of his contemporaries, this art knocks the ball out of the field. It's all relative innit, Guv?
The House of Dolmann
More Dolmann oddness supplied by Eric Bradbury. Valiant, 21st October 1967. I love EB's dark Gothic line-work. This is the antithesis of the bright, Pop Art 1960s isn't it? Darkness pervades, even in broad daylight. Very creepy, very unsettling... Brrrr!!
More Dolmann available for viewing here.
More Dolmann available for viewing here.
2000AD
Cool cover created by Kevin O'Neil. Who I believe started out as the art editor on 2000AD before going freelance?
Charlie
Back page poster by Dave Gibbons, 2000AD 5th May 1979. Nice to see Dave Gibbons, Pat Mills and Isaac Asimov making a cameo appearance in the piece.
2000AD
Cover by Ian Kennedy 1984. Is it me, or does that not look like an 'Ian Kennedy' face? Seems kinda un-Kennedy to me, almost like it's been doctored by someone else.... I seem to remember a Don Trigan Empire) Lawrence cover from the weekly being re-worked and having an image of Dredd being pasted over DL's Dredd.
Below is the cover I'm thinking of. An image of Dredd from a strip has been pasted over the top of DL's Dredd.
Shocking Futures
Yet another compilation of Alan Moore's 2000AD shorts. Art by Kevin O'Neil, Titan Books 1986.
Sunday, 3 October 2010
Race Revell
Hopefully this series of ads was a nice little earner for Joe Colquhoun? Valiant, 11th November 1967.
