Convention Booklet Illustrations

 Various convention booklet illustrations from the 70s and 80s. There's work by Brian Lewis, Jim Baikie, Dave Gibbons, Fred Holmes, Brian Bolland and Mike McMahon. The final illustration is interesting - it's by Bolland AND McMahon. I stripped the colour from it, so it's easier to read.

 

 

2000AD Sci-Fi Special

 A nice Mick McMahon cover for the 2019 2000AD Sci-Fi Special. 

Hm, I don't know of many artists whose style has mutated so much from year-to-year. I'll have to do a page of comparisons at some point. 

Art Droids

Go and treat yourself to some original art from the Art Droids site.

Dave Gibbons

Mike McMahon

(No, I'm not on commission.) ;)

The Cursed Earth: Uncensored

So, apparently this has already sold-out (Joe, you sell-out, you!). But, there's a paperback version coming out, so get saving those shekels/creds. Cover by Brian Bolland.

Ah, what the hell, some Mick McMahon art too:

 

Muto Maniac

Art by Mick McMahon. This is from a preview for the first issue of Toxic sent out to wholesaler/retailers circa 1991.

Legends of the Dark Knight

Art by Mike McMahon, December to February 1993. It's interesting how DC comics took a punt on such non-traditional illustrators as McMahon and Kevin O'Neil for some of their mainstream creations. Apart from Batman, I was never that keen on DC. A lot of their characters seemed a wee bit silly to me. I never 'got' Superman, he always seemed so boring. Although, I think there was a bit of a bias as I only really read Marvel UK titles as a kid. Marvel seemed part of the 'real' world whereas DC characters lived in some sort of weird 1950s limbo universe.

Toxic

Cover art by Mike McMahon.

Sorry about the quality of the scan, it's not mine. Just couldn't resist putting up some more MMcM art. 

The ABC Warriors

Ah, Mike McMahon, your ever-changing art makes my knees explode with delight! Ahem. Moving along...

Muto Maniac

Art by Mike McMahon. Toxic dated 18th April 1991.

Head over to Between Clark and Hilldale for some little-seen art by Kevin O'Neil, Mike McMahon, Ian Gibson, Alan Davis and Brian Bolland. Ah, I still have fond memories of BEM and Arken Sword.

2000 AD

Art by Mike McMahon.

Muto Maniac

Art by Mike McMahon. It's interesting to see how MMM's style has evolved over the years. Most artists tend to streamline their workflow and simplify their styles. MMM's style literally mutates. This is from Toxic! issue 1, 28th March 1991.
Sorry about the quality of the scans: they're borrowed from elsewhere, but I just had to put them up.

Battle

This is one of my favourite covers ever. It makes me wonder what Battle would have looked like with Mike McMahon as one of it's creators. I wonder what the story was behind MMcM drawing this cover? Maybe Rufus D could elaborate? There's another taste of WW2 art here and here from RD's collection of original comic art.

Toxic

Mike McMahon provides the cover for this issue. Interestingly, the strip doesn't actually appear inside the comic. Maybe a missed deadline? I quite liked Toxic: it's a shame that it crashed and burned so quickly after 31 issues...

More info here.