Late Night with Dave Gibbons & Shane Melisse

This is tonight! Have fun if you're going!

Tickets are now on sale (here) for a evening of late night entertainment at the Cartoon Museum in mid-October

As it says on the ticket website...

Join us for a 'super' late night opening to celebrate our Heroes exhibition.

Watch! A panel discussion with Claire Mead, Shane Melisse and Dave Gibbons.

Drink! At the bar.

Tour! The exhibition with Captain Civilian.

Dress Up! As your favourite superhero or in your go-to Cosplay.

Enjoy! Have a great evening.

Eric Parker in the UK (part 3 of 4)

I've recently begun a lengthy series of blog posts all about renowned illustrator Eric Parker (check out his Wikipedia entry here) who had a 50 year (!) career as a comic illustrator.

I've looked at Roughs (part 1) here
Roughs (part 2) here
Roughs (part 3) here
Roughs (part 4) here
Female heads (part 1) here
Female heads (part 2) here
Female heads (part 3) here
Female heads (part 4) here
Pubs (part 1) here
Pubs (part 2) here

Overseas (part 1) here

Overseas (part 2) here

Overseas (part 3) here

Overseas (part 4) here

Overseas (part 5) here

Overseas (part 6) here

Overseas (part 7) here

Overseas (part 8) here

Overseas (part 9) here

Overseas (part 10) here

UK scenes (part 1) here

UK scenes (part 2) here

And now we turn our attention to his UK paintings...

This one is captioned "Woolmers Park, Herts"

a lovely dawn/dusk light captured here

Dan Dare space-ship construction game

I'm always happy to feature unusual bits of Eagle merchandise on the blog. 

There were...

Dan Dare roller skates here

Dan Dare hairbrush here

Dan Dare tie clip here

Eagle stationery here

Eagle club notebook here

With the compliments of the Eagle club here

Eagle / Girl table tennis medals here

Eagle club cycle pennant here

Dan Dare gyro jeep here

Dan Dare space shooting here

Dan Dare rocket ball here

Dan Dare beach ball here

Dan Dare bagatelle here

Eagle report to members (1951) here

Dan Dare field glasses here

Dan Dare interplanetary dominoes here

And today it's the turn of the 'Dan Dare space-ship construction game'

(all images swiped from an ebay listing)

UPDATED: Bugs Bunny - London Editions

Ok, so I'm filing this one under "comics I know nothing about". However, you've got to start somewhere! So here, from 1991, is issue #2 of Bugs Bunny - published by London Editions. 

There have been LOTS of comics featuring ol' Bugs over the years but I'm JUST looking for issues published by London Editions - can you help me out?? Thanks!

Ok, now updated with a cover for issue #4 - but did it last any longer than that??

Bugs Bunny issue #1, London Editions, ??p

image not to hand - can you help?

Bugs Bunny issue #2, London Editions, 85p

Bugs Bunny issue #3, London Editions, ??p

image not to hand - can you help?

Bugs Bunny issue #4, London Editions, 90p

Robin Smith original comic art for sale

Brit Comics art (here) always have lovely comic art up for sale (so signup for their alerts when new stuff is uploaded to the website) and I just wanted to highlight some recent pages they've had for sale. I'm not sure I've seen them sell much Robin Smith art before so here's the latest selection of his art tat (at the time of typing) is up for sale...

This page for £750

This trading card for $350

This page from the 1984 Judge Dredd annual for £1,000

This 2000AD cover for £5,000

This back cover to 2000AD prog 523 for £3,000

UPDATED: Cookie - Clearmark comics

I've looked at some comics published by 'Clearmark comics' in the past...

Popular fairy tales here

Were Bears here

The world of Wym here

Tom and Jerry here 

Rupert here

They also published Cookie - the fortnightly for pre-school for children. Issue 1 was definitely published but I'm unsure about issue 2 - any clues welcomed. You'll see that the contents include Henry's Cat, the family Ness, Pound puppies and more

Now updated with an actual cover image for issue #8. 

Looking at old issues of Denis Gifford's ACE newsletter also reveals the following...

ACE for September '90 says that issue 12 (cover dated 9th August) will be the first monthly issue (and that the price has gone up to 80p)

ACE for Oct / November '90 says that issue 13 (cover dated 9th September) has a free badge

ACE for Jan/Feb 1991 says that issue 13 (cover dated 6th September) was the last issue.

So, some slight confusion about the cover date of issue 13 (the correct date would seem to be 6th September as that's 28 days after the 9th August issue but we shall see) but it's the last issue whatever the cover date.

ACE for September 1990 also records the publication of a holiday special. 

Cookie comic - a Clearmark comic, issue 1, 21st March 1990, 60p

Cookie comic - a Clearmark comic, issue 2, 4th April 1990, 60p

Cookie comic - a Clearmark comic, issue 2, 4th April 1990, 60p

Cookie comic - a Clearmark comic, issue 3, 18th April 1990, 60p

image not to hand - can you help?

Cookie comic - a Clearmark comic, issue 4, 2nd May 1990, 60p

image not to hand - can you help?

Cookie comic - a Clearmark comic, issue 5, 16th May 1990, 60p

image not to hand - can you help?

Cookie comic - a Clearmark comic, issue 6, 30th May 1990, 60p

image not to hand - can you help?

Cookie comic - a Clearmark comic, issue 7, 13th June 1990, 60p

image not to hand - can you help?

Cookie comic - a Clearmark comic, issue 8, 27th June 1990, 60p

Eaglecon 80 - part 7

It occurs to me that I've not covered anything to do with the very first Eagle comic convention - Eaglecon 80. A recent sale by ace ebay seller phil-comics (here) of one of the awards from Eaglecon 80 (see below) for £155 has inspired me to start looking images.

I looked at some initial images here

We had images about what was on display here

images of the original art that was on display here

the banquet dinner here

from the panels here

Frank Hampson here

All these images are from the late, great Eagle & Dan Dare historian Adrian Perkins.

And now we have images of interviews being held

Alan Vince (on the right) being interviewed with the Radio City, Liverpool interviewer & producer

Radio City interviews Marcus Morris

Frank Hampson being interviewed

UPDATED: The Ren & Stimpy show - Marvel UK

Michael Carroll's timeline of Marvel UK comics (here) has an array of interestingly short-lived comics on that I thought I should create cover galleries for them. Sometimes this is easier said than done but let's start off with the 16 issue Ren & Stimpy comic from 1994/5.

NOW UPDATED with covers for issue 14 - the gallery is now complete! Thanks to all those who helped

The Ren & Stimpy show, Marvel UK, issue #1, 19th October 1994, 99p

The Ren & Stimpy show, Marvel UK, issue #2, 16th November 1994, 99p

The Ren & Stimpy show, Marvel UK, issue #3, 14th December 1994, 99p

The Ren & Stimpy show, Marvel UK, issue #4

The Ren & Stimpy show, Marvel UK, issue #5, 22nd February 1995, 99p

The Ren & Stimpy show, Marvel UK, issue #6, 22nd March 1995, 99p

The Ren & Stimpy show, Marvel UK, issue #7, 19th April 1995, 99p

The Ren & Stimpy show, Marvel UK, issue #8, 17th May 1995, 99p

The Ren & Stimpy show, Marvel UK, issue #9, 14th June 1995, 99p

The Ren & Stimpy show, Marvel UK, issue #10, 12th July 1995, 99p

The Ren & Stimpy show, Marvel UK, issue #11, 9th August 1995, 99p

The Ren & Stimpy show, Marvel UK, issue #12, 6th September 1995, 99p

The Ren & Stimpy show, Marvel UK, issue #13, 4th October 1995, 99p

The Ren & Stimpy show, Marvel UK, issue #14, 1st November 1995, 99p

image c/o Bebopcello on Twitter

The Ren & Stimpy show, Marvel UK, issue #15, 29th November 1995, 99p

The Ren & Stimpy show, Marvel UK, issue #16, 27th December 1995, 99p

The Ren & Stimpy show, Marvel UK, special, £1.25

The Ren & Stimpy show, Marvel UK, holiday special, £1.50