Graeme Neil Reid covers gallery

To celebrate some recent purchases I thought I'd better update my Graeme Neil Reid gallery...

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

Inktober 2017 booklet

Published and small press comic work 1991-1999

Hi-Ex! 2008 sketchbook

Hi-Ex! 2010 sketchbook

Hi-Ex! 2012 sketchbook

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: Colin Maxwell for Commando

To celebrate the announcement from publisher DC Thomson that Colin Maxwell will be writing another issue of Commando I thought it was about time I got a guide together for what he's written for Commando so far...

Commando 5371, published by DC Thomson 29th September 2020

Five soldiers seek refuge from a storm, looking for a place safe and warm.

Four lay down to rest that night, none are ready for the fight.

Three wake to find another gone. Will any of them survive till dawn?

Commando 5413, published by DC Thomson 16th February 2021

Polish Sergeant Jakub Leszczuk is one of the last men defending Lwow in 1939, but as the Russian tanks roll in, his unit rescues a small puppy called Rebus from a collapsed building.

It isn’t long before Rebus becomes far more than a lucky mascot for the escaping soldiers! As they retrain for the parachute regiments in Britain, Rebus’s desire to please and talent for tricks finds him with Leszczuk behind enemy lines in Italy before prepping the ground for D-Day, as this pair of underdogs help turn the tide on the Nazi war machine!

Commando 5433, published by DC Thomson 27th April 2021

Five men found The Dead Man’s Chest,
Hidden in a cave on an island in the sea,
One saw the riches and turned against the rest,
And decided the treasure was only for he.

But away they went to war in the sands,
And the treasure laid forgotten by the five,
As one by one they died by someone’s hands,
Till there was nought but one man left alive.

Commando 5475, published by DC Thomson September 28th 2021 

The ORP Tygrys, or Tiger, was a Polish submarine outclassed by Poland’s modern subs, but its Commander, Leopold Swirski, was proud of the ship and his crew. Then September 1st, 1939 came, the Tiger bared its teeth and growled at the invading Nazi hordes. The sub fought tooth and nail to protect its homeland but took too much damage. Licking its wounds, the Tiger and its crew were forced to dock at a neutral port where the vessel was seized and declawed by the authorities. Well that wasn’t going to stop them —as you can’t change a tiger’s stripes!

Commando 5501, published by DC Thomson December 16th 2021 

Three high‑ranking SS officers meet in a remote mansion house near the Swiss border. With them is a cache of looted jewellery, paintings and antiques, forged papers and plans to flee the falling Reich to South America. But, as they talk in secret, they are disturbed by a knock at the door. A member of the infamous Gestapo has come to interrogate them. Does he know about their plans to flee? And what does this all have to do with Resistance fighter Christina Koch?

You can find all other mentions of Colin on the blog right here

You can find all other mentions of Commando on the blog right here

Tesco fun n' games comic #3

My covers gallery of (Tesco) fun 'n games comic was last updated here - thanks to nabbing some images from ebay here's a detailed look at issue 3...

Tesco fun 'n games #3

Art by Don Harley

Art by John Worsley

UPDATED: More 'Ant wars' original artwork sold

As I reported here there were recently 3 pages of original art for 2000AD strip Ant Wars up for sale. Those pages sold for £599 and now three more pages are up for sale here - there's already a couple of bids and the price is (as I type this) £410. I'd expect these pages to go for more than that because these have some of the actual ants in them.

Pages are all from prog 72 (8th July 1978) - good luck if you bid!

UPDATE: sells for £673.87

There was also this half-page that sold for £182.71 from prog 79 (26/08/78)

Visionaries - Marvel UK

I've looked at a number of Marvel UK titles on the blog before - but probably not one as short-lived as Visionaries! Just the five (monthly) issues, a special & an annual to collect.

You can check out Visionaries comic in much more detail on the Oink blog here

Visionaries, Marvel UK, issue #1, April 1988

Visionaries, Marvel UK, issue #2, May 1988

Visionaries, Marvel UK, issue #3, June 1988

Visionaries, Marvel UK, issue #4, July 1988

Visionaries, Marvel UK, issue #5, August 1988

Visionaries, Marvel UK, annual (1989)

Visionaries, Marvel UK, Spring special (printed April 1989)

Re-cycling the cover for issue #5 for the spring special! 

You can catch-up on all other mentions of Marvel UK on the blog here

Beano @ Somerset House; David Law

If you've not yet made it to the current exhibition at Somerset House, Beano: The art of breaking the rules, I thought I might try and tempt you with these examples of the original art that's on display...

Previously I looked at the 

Leo Baxendale art here

Dudley D Watkins art here

And here's the David Law art...

Happy Christmas from Bill Mevin & the Morph team

It's a very Happy Christmas from me on the blog and (courtesy of this piece of original art currently for sale over on the Book Palace website) Bill Mevin.

Shown on his 1984 Christmas card design are, from left to right, Grandmorph, Delilah and Gillespie 

I wonder who the Dennis was? Anyway, enjoy what remains of 2021 and I'll see you for more blogging in 2022!