Eric Parker - miscellaneous work, part 14 (of 23)

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

UK scenes (part 3) here

UK scenes (part 4) here

Character studies & groups, drafts (part 1) here

Character studies & groups, drafts (part 2) here

Character studies & groups, drafts (part 3) here

Character studies & groups, drafts (part 4) here

Character studies & groups, drafts (part 5) here

Character studies & groups, drafts (part 6) here

Life drawings (part 1) here

Life drawings (part 2) here

Life drawings (part 3) here

Life drawings (part 4) here

Life drawings (part 5) here

Life drawings (part 6) XXXX

Life drawings (part 7) here

Life drawings (part 8) here

Life drawings (part 9) here

Life drawings (part 10) here

Gentlemen is here

Horses (part 1) is here

Horses (part 2) is here

Furniture is here

Old soldiers (part 1) is here

Old soldiers (part 2) is here

Old soldiers (part 3) is here

Sexton Blake is here

More soldiers is here

Miscellaneous is here

Layouts & scenes is here

Letters is here

Finished work (part 1) is here

And now we turn our attention to a final (albeit large selection of his work). Next up is his work on "finished work". These are a variety of sizes - from the very small to the quite large.

Comic Cutz - the art of Barrie Mitchell (part 11)

The Barrie Mitchell exhibition that took place in Ryde in February 2026 had many highlights and a LOT of art. I tried to take photos of all the art but there was too much! Anyway, here's the start of a long series of posts all about the art that was there...

1). Harlem Heroes was here

2). paintings of cars was here

3). his work for Red Dwarf was here

4). some football art was here

5). some Dr Who art was here

6). some more Dr Who art was here

7). yet more Dr Who art was here

8). even more Dr Who art was here

9). a final selection of Dr Who art was here

10). some Marks Brothers art was here

Some examples of his work on Scorer

UPDATED: Colin Curly comic collection

Friend of the blog Lee Grice was kind enough to share these images of the rare "Colin Curly comic collection" with me. Good luck tracking this one down! 

UPDATE: I've found the image below of the Quavers bag that was the original source of the comics.

Also, a comment on my original post has been left which says "...during the summer of 1989. To get the large comic you had to send off 20 empty Quavers packet" - that's a lot of Quavers to eat!

Here's the complete listing of characters appearing in the collection...

Eagle #1 - the promotional copy

Some images (c/o here on the Book Palace website) of the rarely seen (8 page) promotional copy of Eagle. Note the incorrect date (21st April rather than 14th April), the missing 'Dan Dare - pilot of the future' masthead and the length (8 pages rather than 20). This was snapped up for £400.  

Get along gang weekly - covers gallery, part 6

I'm indebted to friend of the blog (and mad keen Marvel UK collector) Richard Gilham for taking the time to share these covers from his collection. Yes, it's the start of a Get along gang covers gallery! Marvel UK published 93 issues in total from April 1985 to January 1987.

Part 1 (issues 1-8) was here

Part 2 (issues 9-16) was here

Part 3 (issues 17-24) was here

Part 4 (issues 25-32) was here

Part 5 (issues 33-40) was here

Get along gang, Marvel UK, issue #41, 30p, 25th January 1986

Get along gang, Marvel UK, issue #42, 30p, 1st February 1986

Get along gang, Marvel UK, issue #43, 30p, 8th February 1986

Get along gang, Marvel UK, issue #44, 30p, 15th February 1986

Get along gang, Marvel UK, issue #45, 30p, 22nd February 1986

Get along gang, Marvel UK, issue #46, 30p, 1st March 1986

Get along gang, Marvel UK, issue #47, 30p, 8th March 1986

Get along gang, Marvel UK, issue #48, 30p, 15th March 1986

Heroes! The British invasion of American comics - part 13

Recently (ish!) finished at the Cartoon Museum (here) was their exhibition 'Heroes! The British invasion of American comics'. 

For anyone who couldn't make it here's part 13 of my look at what you missed...

Part 1 was here

Part 2 was here

Part 3 was here

Part 4 was here

Part 5 was here

Part 6 was here

Part 7 was here

Part 8 was here

Part 9 was here

Part 10 was here

Part 11 was here

Part 12 was here

SSI journal - 1986

I've looked before at all things to do with the SSI (Society of Strip Illustration) here and I like the newsletters they produced BUT these were produced in very low quantities so you stand virtually no chance of collecting a set. 

I've looked at some examples of the SSI journal for 

1992 here 

1981 here

1982 here

1983 here

1985 here

and for other years I'm just going to collect images for the covers as and when they come up for sale on ebay. Over time we might end up with a full (??) set. So here's the start of a covers gallery for SSI journal for 1986...

SSI journal, August 1986