V for Vendetta at the Cartoon Museum - last day!

Just a shout-out for the final day of the Cartoon Museum's excellent V for Vendetta exhibition. Run, don't walk, to get there and enjoy it. 

Some exhibition photos below but you'll have to go to the museum if you really want to enjoy David Lloyd's amazing artwork.

Details on the Cartoon Museum website are here

UPDATED: The Broons calendars

Continuing my strange obsession with comics characters on calendars let's have a look at The Broons.

This one (1997) is the earliest one I can find...

The Broons calendar, 1997

Then there's a few years when there were clearly calendars produced (see below) but I just can't find decent images of them - let me know if you can point me in the right direction...

Some more images of late '90s calendars...

The Broons calendar, 2000

The Broons calendar, 2005

The Broons calendar, 2006

The Broons calendar, 2007

The Broons calendar, 2008

The Broons calendar, 2009


The Broons calendar, 2010

The Broons calendar, 2011

The Broons calendar, 2012

The Broons calendar, 2013

The Broons calendar, 2014

The Broons calendar, 2015

The Broons calendar, 2016

The Broons calendar, 2017

The Broons calendar, 2018

The Broons calendar, 2019

The Broons calendar, 2020

The Broons calendar, 2021

The Broons calendar, 2022

If you're interested in comic calendars then here are the links to the other calendar themes that I've covered...

1). Beano & Dandy calendars are here
2). Commando calendars are here
3). Judge Dredd calendars are here
4). Broons calendars are above
5). Oor Wullie is here
6). Dan Dare calendar is here
7). Miscellaneous calendars are here

8). Viz calendars are here

9). Asterix calendars are here

10). Andy Capp calendars are here

11). Tintin calendars are here

Marvel UK's 'Rugrats' - Mike McMahon (part 2)

A long time ago I read a brief overview of Mike McMahon's career in a comics convention programme which said of McMahon "...his left field but delightful take on both Sonic the Hedgehog and Rugrats are two further examples of the artist pushing the boundaries of expectation".

Hmmm, I thought, I didn't know he worked on Rugrats...so off I pop to Wikipedia (here) which reports that he...

produced two 6 page strips for the Marvel UK/Panini fully originated fortnightly comic Rugrats (he would have been commissioned to draw more, but the comic was cancelled)

Sadly no mention of which issues these strips appeared in. Anyway, I thought I'd collect Rugrats comic until I came across these two strips and I've finally done it!

Part one of his work in this comic was here

Mike's work appears in Rugrats #13 cover dated 15th January 1997. The credits are below for this particular issue...

So he provides the pencils for 2 strips, here's the second...

For all other mention of Mick on the blog click on this link or on this link

Marvel UK's 'Rugrats' - Mike McMahon (part 1)

A long time ago I read a brief overview of Mike McMahon's career in a comics convention programme which said of McMahon "...his left field but delightful take on both Sonic the Hedgehog and Rugrats are two further examples of the artist pushing the boundaries of expectation".

Hmmm, I thought, I didn't know he worked on Rugrats...so off I pop to Wikipedia (here) which reports that he...

produced two 6 page strips for the Marvel UK/Panini fully originated fortnightly comic Rugrats (he would have been commissioned to draw more, but the comic was cancelled)

Sadly no mention of which issues these strips appeared in. Anyway, I thought I'd collect Rugrats comic until I came across these two strips and I've finally done it!

Mike's work appears in Rugrats #13 cover dated 15th January 1997. The credits are below for this particular issue...

So he provides the pencils for 2 strips, here's the first... 

...and the 2nd strip will be on the blog soon.

For all other mention of Mick on the blog click on this link or on this link

UPDATED: Marvel UK's 'Rugrats' comics

I've looked at all sort of Marvel (UK) comics on the blog just click on this link to check 'em all out but today it's a new title for me - yes it's Rugrats the comic. I'm unclear how long this actually lasted. I know it lasted at least 24 issues (see cover scan below) and issues were listed in Comics International up to #31 [in CI issue 94] but Comics International #95 has an issue listed but no issue number. So, issue 32 seems like the likeliest highest number that Rugrats could have reached but I'd be delighted to know for sure.

UPDATE: the letterer Gordon Robson has been in touch to say that issue 29 was (he believes) the final issue. I have therefore adjusted the listing below.

Rugrats comic, published by Marvel UK, issue 1

Contributors include Bambos, Mario Capaldi, Steve White

Rugrats comic, published by Marvel UK, issue 2

Contributors include Adrian Salmon, Bambos, Simon Furman, Mario Capaldi, Stephen Baskerville 

Rugrats comic, published by Marvel UK, issue 3

Contributors include David Leach, Mario Capaldi, Simon Furman

Rugrats comic, published by Marvel UK, issue 4

Contributors include Bambos, Steve White, Adrian Salmon, Simon Furman

Rugrats comic, published by Marvel UK, issue 5

Contributors include Bambos, David Leach, Adrian Salmon

Rugrats comic, published by Marvel UK, issue 6

Contributors include Bambos, Simon Furman, Steve White, Adrian Salmon

Rugrats comic, published by Marvel UK, issue 7

Contributors include Adrian Salmon, Bambos

Rugrats comic, published by Marvel UK, issue 8

Contributors include Adrian Salmon, Bambos, David Leach, Simon Furman

Rugrats comic, published by Marvel UK, issue 9

Contributors include Bambos, Adrian Salmon, Steve White, David Leach, Matt Brooker [D'Israeli]

Rugrats comic, published by Marvel UK, issue 10

Contributors include Adrian Salmon, David Leach, Matt Brooker [D'Israeli]

Rugrats comic, published by Marvel UK, issue 11

Contributors include David Leach, Adrian Salmon, Bambos, Matt Brooker [D'Israeli], Steve White

Rugrats comic, published by Marvel UK, issue 12

Contributors include Adrian Salmon, Nick Abadzis, David Leach, Simon Furman, Gordon Rennie

Rugrats comic, published by Marvel UK, issue 13

Contributors include Mike McMahon, Bambos, Steve White

Rugrats comic, published by Marvel UK, issue 14

Contributors include David Leach, Simon Furman, Mike Hadley

Rugrats comic, published by Marvel UK, issue 15

Contributors include Mike Hadley, Gordon Rennie, Steve White, Bambos

Rugrats comic, published by Marvel UK, issue 16

Contributors include Bambos, Steve White, Simon Furman

Rugrats comic, published by Marvel UK, issue 17

Contributors include David Leach, Bambos, Adrian Salmon

Rugrats comic, published by Marvel UK, issue 18

Contributors include Bambos, Steve White, Simon Furman

Rugrats comic, published by Marvel UK, issue 19

Contributors include Bambos, Steve White, Gordon Rennie

Rugrats comic, published by Marvel UK, issue 20

Contributors include Bambos, Steve White, Adrian Salmon, Simon Furman

Rugrats comic, published by Marvel UK, issue 21

Contributors include Bambos, Steve White, David Leach

Rugrats comic, published by Marvel UK, issue 22

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Rugrats comic, published by Marvel UK, issue 23

Contributors include Bambos, Steve White, David Leach

Rugrats comic, published by Marvel UK, issue 24

Contributors include Bambos, David Leach, Steve White

Rugrats comic, published by Marvel UK, issue 25

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Rugrats comic, published by Marvel UK, issue 26

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Rugrats comic, published by Marvel UK, issue 27

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Rugrats comic, published by Marvel UK, issue 28

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Rugrats comic, published by Marvel UK, issue 29

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