Eric Parker - miscellaneous work, part 9 (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

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

Requiem, Vampire Knight

I've long wanted to work out what's out there to collect (in English) relating to the Pat Mills and Olivier Ledroit series "Requiem Vampire Knight". Here's what I've found so far. Further examples of other books in the series welcome.

You get 2 stories in each of the five 'single volumes' - so that's 10 stories in total. 

The two omnibus volumes collect 5 stories each - so that's 10 stories in total.

Requiem Vampire Knight, volume 1 - Resurrection & Danse macabre

Requiem Vampire Knight, volume 2 - Dracula & The vampire ball

Requiem Vampire Knight, volume 3 - Dragon blitz & Hellfire club

Requiem Vampire Knight, volume 4 -  Convent of the Blood Sisters & Queen of Dead Souls

Requiem Vampire Knight, volume 5 -  The city of pirates & Blood bath

Requiem Vampire Knight, omnibus 1

Resurrection 

Danse macabre

Dracula 

The vampire ball

Dragon blitz

Requiem Vampire Knight, omnibus 2

Hellfire club

Convent of the Blood Sisters

Queen of Dead Souls

The city of pirates

Blood bath

currently available from here very cheaply (and with free postage)

UPDATED: Moebius - Titan Books reprints (part 1)

A recent acquisition of a Moebius book pushed me to the internet to track down what other volumes there are in this series - subtitled 'The collections fantasies of Jean Giraud'.

I seem to recall they were advertised for years in Comics International as remaindered books - this lack of interest now means that the books seem to be very expensive - prices from £30 upwards. Yikes. Good luck getting hold of an affordable set.

UPDATE (30th May 2026) for completeness I'm adding in further volumes to this set that weren't published by Titan Books (but were by Epic). So that's volumes 0,7,8,9

Moebius, the forbidden work of Jean Giraud volume 0 - Dark Horse

currently available to buy here

Moebius, the collected fantasies of Jean Giraud volume 1 - Titan Books

Moebius, the collected fantasies of Jean Giraud volume 2 - Titan Books

Moebius, the collected fantasies of Jean Giraud volume 3 - Titan Books

Moebius, the collected fantasies of Jean Giraud volume 4 - Titan Books

Moebius, the collected fantasies of Jean Giraud volume 5 - Titan Books

Moebius, the collected fantasies of Jean Giraud volume 6 - Titan Books

There are more details on the Jean Giraud Wikipedia page here 

Moebius, the collected fantasies of Jean Giraud volume 7 - Epic

currently available to buy here

Moebius, the collected fantasies of Jean Giraud volume 8 - Epic

currently available to buy here

Moebius, the collected fantasies of Jean Giraud volume 9 - Epic

currently available to buy here

Comic Cutz - the art of Barrie Mitchell (part 5)

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

some Dr Who art

2000AD FCBD

This is definitely one of the posts that I'll refer to when I'm out and about and see a comic and think "hmmm, have I got that?". Yes, it's a covers gallery for the 2000AD contributions to Free Comic Book Day. 

Good luck hunting them all down! Do let me know if I've missed any out!

 

2000AD Free Comic Book Day - 2013

2000AD Free Comic Book Day - 2014

2000AD Free Comic Book Day - 2015

2000AD Free Comic Book Day - 2016

2000AD Free Comic Book Day - 2017

2000AD Free Comic Book Day - 2018

2000AD Free Comic Book Day - 2020

2000AD Free Comic Book Day - 2021

2000AD Free Comic Book Day - 2022

Get along gang weekly - covers gallery, part 3

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

Get along gang, Marvel UK, issue #17, 30p, 10th August 1985

Get along gang, Marvel UK, issue #18, 30p, 17th August 1985

Get along gang, Marvel UK, issue #19, 30p, 24th August 1985

Get along gang, Marvel UK, issue #20, 30p, 31st August 1985

Get along gang, Marvel UK, issue #21, 30p, 17th September 1985

Get along gang, Marvel UK, issue #22, 30p, 14th September 1985

Get along gang, Marvel UK, issue #23, 30p, 21st September 1985

Get along gang, Marvel UK, issue #24, 30p, 28th September 1985

Heroes! The British invasion of American comics - part 10

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 10 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