UPDATED: Mike Dorey for 'Commando'

A further update  (5th July 2026) to my guide to the Commando work of Mike Dorey...

Commando 5967 - Rayker: back in the ranks

Sergeant Moses Rayker, a black man in a white man’s army, fights two wars: one against the Germans and another against racism within the segregated American military.

After extreme losses during the German surprise attack in the Ardennes, General John Lee asks for something new from Santa — Infantry volunteers. Race isn’t important, he says, but anyone who joins needs to be a private or PFC.

It took Rayker five years to earn his stripes, but those guys need a leader, and to be one, he’ll need to be back in the ranks.

Commando 5909

Lieutenant Gerald Cadman, the fighting coward, once again finds himself precisely where he does not want to be — on the front lines! The arrival of the heroic and aristocratic Captain Blickley-Phipps, however, gives Cadman an idea for how to improve his station.

But for Private Tom Smith, something doesn’t seem right about Blickley-Phipps. Ruthless in his quest for glory, the captain will gladly sacrifice his own men for victory. Even Scruff the dog can smell an impending disaster, but Cadman may be too distracted to find a way out this time!

Commando 5857

Legendary Warlord character returns to Commando! Sergeant Rayker was tasked with rounding up four drunken US Marines. But not long after he finds himself under enemy fire with the drunken marines in tow. Perhaps this job isn’t as easy as it sounds!

Commando 5817

Last seen in Warlord in 1984, Sergeant Moses Rayker returns! Trapped behind enemy lines, Rayker encounters an unfriendly face in the form of Buford ‘Bubba’ Ballard. Will Rayker end up smacking the tar outta him before they make it back?

Commando 5799

The Western Front, January 1915. When Lieutenant Gerald Cadman claims the credit for Private Tom Smith’s perfect shot, it creates a chance for him to escape the trenches and become a sniper.
Earning glory while hiding and never getting close to the enemy? It sounds just like the kind of fighting Cadman can get behind! But the life of a marksman proves more difficult and dangerous than Cadman could have ever expected!

Commando 5697

That cowardly cad returns! From the pages of The Victor to Commando, Cadman the Fighting Coward looks skyward to escape the trenches - but he soon finds that life in the Royal Flying Corps isn't any easier or safer than on the ground!

Commando 5693

All aboard this horror train bound for doom! For an army soldier, a British sailor, and two RAF Airmen clambered on board but will any of them survive the eerie TRAIN of events about to unfold?!

Just a reminder that Mike's work is in one of the current issues of Commando - issue 5665 to be precise. Here's what the Commando website has to say about it... 

In comic pages for the first time since 1993, Cadman is back! Rebooting the classic Victor ‘hero’, original artist Mike Dorey takes up his brush to recreate more daring and dastardly Cadman adventures.

In the autumn of 1914, the Anglo-French and German armies launched a series of flanking manoeuvres towards the Channel, as cowardly cavalry Lieutenant Gerald Cadman tries to trick his captain into leading them away from the fighting. But every attempt to flee takes them into fresh action, while Cadman’s batman, Tom Smith, looks for ways to expose his deceptive master.

 

This issue of Commando is out today - good luck hunting down your copy!

To celebrate the news that Mike Dorey is returning to work on Commando I thought I'd better update my guide to his previous covers work for Commando (see below). Of issue 5595, Commando HQ have this to say...We're all very excited at Commando HQ, as legend Mike Dorey returns to illustrate his first new Commando comic since 1995! And what a return, in a thriller featuring spies, doppelgangers, and sabotage! Issue 5595 Spy in the Mirror is out soon! - QM

To celebrate getting my sole copy of Commando (featuring a cover by Mike Dorey) signed on Saturday, see below, I thought I'd present a gallery of ALL the covers that Mike did for Commando.

Here's part 1, part 2 is tomorrow, thanks to friend of the blog Colin Noble for the issue numbers and thanks to (mainly) ebay for most of the cover images...

2741 (reprinted as 5118)

2757

 

2763 (reprinted as 4205)

2778

2792

2823

2846

2889

2898

2909

SSI journal - 1983

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 

1982 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 1983...

SSI journal, June/July 1983, #49

Cover art by Andrew Wildman

Currently for sale here

UPDATED: Small press comics - Isabel Greenberg

I've long been a fan of the work of Isabel Greenberg (check out her website here) and I have a number of her longer comics work (The encyclopedia of early Earth, One hundred nights of hero and Glass town) but I don't know enough about her small press work.

These images below are (mainly) from my own collection but I'd love to know what other titles she might have produced. Any help much appreciated.

UPDATE (24/06/26):

Isabel also contributed to this (144 page book)

Described thus (and available from publisher Nobrow here)

A collaboration between writer Jamie Rhodes and the National Trust, A Castle in England is a unique and fascinating graphic fiction project inspired by Scotney Castle in Kent. Using the rich history of this fourteenth-century castle as a starting point, Rhodes has created five short stories that take place over different eras in the castle's past: The Labourer (Medieval), The Priest (Elizabethan), The Smuggler (Georgian), The Widow (Victorian), and The Hunter (Edwardian). Each of these stories has been illustrated by experienced comic and graphic novel artists Isaac Lenkiewicz, Briony May Smith, William Exley, Becky Palmer, and Isabel Greenberg, creating a visually striking graphic collection that is steeped in historical context. 

Jamie Rhodes is a London based writer working in screen, prose, and comics. He studied Philosophy at Manchester Metropolitan University, where he focused on Heideggarian studies and Phenomenology. He later trained as a script reader and co-founded the filmmaking collective, Donkey Stone Films, in Nottingham. Jamie has been supported by: EM Media, IdeasTap, Arvon Foundation, Spread the Word, and the Arts Council England. He is the author of Dead Men's Teeth, launched at the British Library in 2014.

UPDATE (22/05/26):

This is c/o friend of the blog Simon Russell...

That's about life size! This is definitely a mini-comic. It unfolds into a slightly larger than A4 piece of paper with a poster on one side and a story on the other side. Very clever. Undated but early??

UPDATE (22/04/26):

These are 3 all c/o friend of the blog Simon Russell...

Isabel provided a wraparound cover for issue #5 (Summer 2013) of this magazine (bit larger than A5 sized). Plus a 6 page interview and art. 

Classic US comic book (size). First printed in November 2013.

Simon's copy of  "The river of lost souls" (bottom) is also slightly different from my copy (top). His version is...slightly smaller; the paper stock is different; his is signed and dated 2013 and the inside back cover isn't blank. One for completionists only!

UPDATE:

Back in 2010 issue 1 of Sea Mouse comic was produced. It was 40 pages long, A5 size, black & white only and contained 2 pages of Isabel's diary comics. As this is from 2010 this predates her winning the Obsever/Cape graphic short story prize and, stylistically at least, looks like her earliest published work identified to date. Cover not by Isabel

A snippet of her work in Sea Mouse...

You can still get copies from here

UPDATE: this is c/o friend of the blog Simon Russell

Rites, customs and histories of the great empire of Migdalbavel - Isabel Greenberg

Love in a very cold climate - Isabel Greenberg

This was the name of the short story that won Isabel the Obsever/Cape graphic short story prize (see here) so I wonder if this came before or after the prize??  

Dreadful wind and rain - Isabel Greenberg

published October 2014

Described here thus...

A short comic based on the traditional folk ballad The Two Sisters. This book was made for an exhibition at Cecil Sharp House with the English Folk Dance and Song Society, and printed with a risograph.

The tale tells of two sisters, seduced by the same lover, and the ruinous consequences that followed. The story can also be found in the graphic novel The One Hundred Nights of Hero.

The river of lost souls - Isabel Greenberg

Described here thus...

A short story commissioned by the Guardian for a series on water, entitled The River of Lost Souls.

Toad, episode one - Isabel Greenberg

Described here thus...
A self-published risographed comic, written by Alexis Deacon and illustrated by Isabel Greenberg.

Confinement - Isabel Greenberg

From 2023 - more details here - this will be published in full in 2028 (!)

Got (6); The snow queen; The river of lost souls, Sea mouse #1; Love in a very cold climate; Dreadful wind and rain; Toad #1

To get (4); Sovay; Coven #5; Rites, Customs & histories etc; Confinement

UPDATED: Graeme Neil Reid cover gallery

To celebrate the forthcoming release of yet another (!) Commando with a cover by Graeme Neil Reid I thought I'd rummage through my collection to see what examples of his art I have, so here we go  with my small gallery of his art that I have...

UPDATE (2nd July 2026)

Commando 5971 - Commandos vs Dragons

To see more of his art you can follow him on Twitter @GraemeNeilReid and buy stuff from him here

Commando 5153 - The red devil

Commando 5187 - Ice-cold commando

Commando 5193 - Cold steel

Commando 5225 - Mud and mayhem

Commando 5213 - Battle blisters

Commando 5249 - Crisis on Crete

Commando 5433 - Dead man's chest

Commando 5441 - Flak crew

Commando 5452 - Lone Wolf

And here's my link to all other mentions of Graeme's work on the blog

And here's a blast from the past...it's Ian Wheeler's (@ianwheeler_who) early noughties new eagle fanzine, Eagle Flies Again. I only realised the other day that Graeme had contributed the covers to them, but here they are...

Issue 13

Issue 14

UPDATED: - Fusion covers

I'm grateful to Andrew Wolf for bringing these fanzine to my attention. He did so over on the "Fans of Alan Davis" Facebook page (here). I've not seen other covers for Fusion so if you can help me out with other images that'd be great. Andrew says 9 issues all with a print run of less than 200 copies.

UPDATE (01/07/26); with thanks to Comics Tony & Ewan Brownlow for their feedback on the original post. Updated with covers for issues 4, 6 & 7.

Fusion fanzine, #2, 30p

cover by Alan Davis

Fusion fanzine, #4, 30p

cover by Grant Morrison

Fusion fanzine, #5, 40p

cover by Alan Davis

Fusion fanzine, #6, 30p

cover by Grant Morrison

Fusion fanzine, #7, 40p

cover by Tony O'Donnell