One of the first comics I ever blogged about (here, here and here) was a title called 'Wanted' - it was published by 'Celebrity' - a publisher about whom I knew very little (then or now!). It would turn out that Celebrity's most successful title would be their Count Duckula comic (which I covered here), but they had at least one other title published. This was The wisdom of gnomes, an (according to wikipedia) animated series made in Spain and was a spin-off from the series 'David the gnome'.
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The wisdom of the gnomes, Celebrity, issue 1, 28th September 1989
The wisdom of the gnomes, Celebrity, issue 2, 25th October 1989
24 pages long
Inside you get a single story - Journey to Scotland - which runs to 16 pages - with the rest being a mix of games, puzzles and adverts.
Interior art is unsigned but looks like it could be Capaldi (albeit drawing in quite a simplified style).
The wisdom of the gnomes, Celebrity, issue 3, 8th November 1989
Now the question is - were there any more issues? Surely, no comic series stops after 3 issues? Sadly, I can't find any more but if you know differently do let me know.
The wisdom of the gnomes, Celebrity, issue 4, 22nd November 1989
The wisdom of the gnomes, Celebrity, issue 5, 6th December 1989
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The wisdom of the gnomes, Celebrity, issue 6, 20th December 1989
The wisdom of the gnomes, Celebrity, issue 7, 3rd January 1990
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The wisdom of the gnomes, Celebrity, issue 8, 17th January 1990
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The wisdom of the gnomes, Celebrity, issue 9, 31st January 1990
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The wisdom of the gnomes, Celebrity, issue 10, 14th February 1990
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The wisdom of the gnomes, Celebrity, issue 11, 28th February 1990
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The wisdom of the gnomes, Celebrity, issue 12, 14th March 1990
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The wisdom of the gnomes, Celebrity, issue 13, 28th March 1990
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UPDATE: I've now found the following references in Denis Gifford's old ACE newsletters...
Newsletter #115 (volume 13, issue 3), June 1990, Wisdom goes monthly from the April 1990 issue
The wisdom of the gnomes, Celebrity, issue 14, April 1990
The wisdom of the gnomes, Celebrity, issue 15, May 1990
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The wisdom of the gnomes, Celebrity, issue 16, June 1990
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The wisdom of the gnomes, Celebrity, issue 17, July 1990
Newsletter #117 (volume 13, issue 5), September 1990, the July 1990 issue of Wisdom is the final issue - issue #17 - and here it is c/o comics fan, and friend of the blog, Michael Carroll
So that's quite a few more issues than I was expecting and means there's plenty more issues to track down.
There were also (at least) 2 annuals produced - both look like they are sporting covers by Mario Capaldi.
The 1991 annual
Celebrity Publications postal address was Unit 1, H.Q. 3, Hook Rise South, Surbiton, Surrey, KT6 7NH
Editor is Floron Florenzo
Assistant to editor is Ben Lakofski
Editorial Director is Etta Saunder
Coloured up a lot of Mario’s work, loved working with him, dearly missed.
ReplyDeleteColoured up a lot of Mario’s artwork, dearly missed, loved those days.
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