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! 

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

Tank Girl - test cover

Here's a rare piece of Tank Girl themed merch that I spotted for sale on ebay the other day. The description said "Possibly 5 printed for a convention, never sold" this was an Alternate Test Cover Book 1 Anniversary Edition Signed. Rare doesn't even begin to cover it!

Comic Cutz - the art of Barrie Mitchell (part 10)

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

Here's some examples of his Marks Brothers art...

UPDATED: All the Bears

There's a story to be unpicked somewhere about all the following characters and, right now, I'm not sure how it all hangs together so I just need to start somewhere by working out all the instances of the character appearances that I've found so far.

The characters are Star Bears, Scare Bears and Were Bears...

UPDATE (13th August 2026)

My look at Z comic issue #3 is here - this contains a 4 page Star Bears strip ("Born under a bad sign"); 2 pages of 3 panel gag strips featuring the Scare Bears; a 4 pages Scare Bears strip (untitled but based around a skeleton needing a coat) 

My look at Z comic issue #4 is here - this contains a 6 page Star Bears strip ("Born under a bad sign") and an untitled 2 page Scare Bears strip (no title but based around Old Father Time and Medusa)

UPDATE (25th July 2026)...here's a packet of glow-in-the-dark stickers (available, at the time of typing, here for £59.99)

UPDATE (01/05/26): Here's a 48 page long, full colour, A4 sized comic that I've never seen before...

and here's the back page...

So the comic contents are as follows...

1). front cover - 1 page

2). Scare Bears meet the St. John badgers - 2 pages, new material

3). Star Bears - 4 pages, (reprinted from Zodiac comic #1)

4). Scare Bears - 4 pages, (reprinted from Zodiac comic #1)

5). Scare Bears - 12 pages

6). Star Bears - 4 pages, (reprinted from Zodiac comic #2)

7). map of the events going on in Hyde Park that day - 2 pages

8). Star Bears - 4 pages, (reprint from Zodiac comic #3)

9). Scare Bears - 4 pages

10). Star Bears - 6 pages, (reprint from Zodiac comic #4)

11). Scare Bears - 3 pages, reprinted from Zodiac comic #2

12). advert - 1 page

13). rear cover - 1 page

UPDATED: I've found an image of the Scare Bears stickers (25 in a pack for 24p!) so I've added that in below...

1). Star Bears 

Created by Craig Dixon and Matt Gibas

Here and here I looked at Z comic...

...which has 4 pages of Star Bears content...

...and then there was the sticker book (here)

And in this book there's a 6 page strip...

Here's an example page...

2). Scare Bears 

Illustrated by Craig Dixon and Matt Gibas

Illustrated by George Nicholas

This featured in the sticker book (here)

Here and here I looked at Z comic...

which featured a 4 page Scare Bears strip

there was also the Scare Bears monster party book that I looked at here

The Scare Bear also feature on the cover of 'Cartoon Aid' which I looked at here

and this has two newspaper style strips

plus this full-colour 12-page strip (illustrated by George Nicholas - my list of his work here)

3). Were Bears 

another comic from George Nicholas - which I looked at in more detail here - a title from 1990/1. So I'm assuming that the Scare Bears evolved into Were bears

Lawless 2026 - part 1

As ever there's SO much going on at Lawless convention that it's hard to try and take it all in, however I did manage to take a few photographs this year. I've grouped them together thematically and hopefully they'll bring back pleasant memories or inspire you to go to Lawless 2027 (being held on the 15th and 16th May 2027).

First up is Steve Dillon (t-shirts & art)...