31 March 2023

Private Eye cartoon library

Something a bit different today - cartoons from Private Eye. There are plenty of books of cartoon from the Eye out there but I thought I'd just highlight their cartoon library series. It lasted at least 9 volumes and I'm just missing an image for volume 1 - can you help?

Private Eye cartoon library 1
image not to hand - can you help?

Private Eye cartoon library 2 - Hector Breeze

Private Eye cartoon library 3 - Larry


Private Eye cartoon library 4 - Honeysett

Private Eye cartoon library 5 - Barry Fantoni

Private Eye cartoon library 6 - Heath

Private Eye cartoon library 7 - John Glashan

Private Eye cartoon library 8 - ffolkes

Private Eye cartoon library 9 - Kevin Woodcock


30 March 2023

UPDATED: Simon Harrison art in various places

Listening to the "Mega City Book Club" podcast this week about the art of Simon Harrison inspired me to go and see what of his non-2000AD comics I'd acquired over the years. The following is my list of that work but I'm sure there's more out there...

Update: I've just realised that Simon's work also appears in a few of the old UKCAC convention booklets. I've picked this one out in particular (with its cover art by John Bolton)...

...because it features this Shuk & Doode illustration which should be of interest to anyone who (like me) has recently purchased (here) the Shuk & Doode collection


new Eagle #275, 27th June 1987

Warhammer monthly #3 - Unholy Alliance (art only)

Warhammer monthly #7 - Shadowfast (art only)

Warhammer monthly #8 - Shadowfast (art only)

Warhammer monthly #9 - Shadowfast (art only); plus a pin-up of Shadowfast



Warhammer monthly #10 - Shadowfast (art only)

Warhammer monthly #11 - Shadowfast (art only)

Warhammer monthly #13 - Shadowfast cover and strip (art only)

Warhammer monthly #14 - Shadowfast (art only)

Inferno #5 - pin-up of Ungrak Bloodfang of the Blackskull Orcs


Revolver #2 - Circular Motion (artist & writer)

Crisis #58 - Rainbow cafĂ© (artist & writer)

29 March 2023

Clive Barker's 'Hellbreed' - Marvel UK

Michael Carroll's timeline of Marvel UK comics (here) has an array of interestingly short-lived comics on that I thought I should create cover galleries for them. Sometimes this is easier said than done but let's look at the 3 issue Clive Barker's Hellbreed comic from 1995.

Clive Barker's 'Hellbreed' - issue #1, May 1995, £1.95


Clive Barker's 'Hellbreed' - issue #2, June 1995, £1.95
image from https://comicvine.gamespot.com/hellbreed-2/4000-381161/

Clive Barker's 'Hellbreed' - issue #3, July 1995, £1.95
there's a glimpse of issue #3 in the above image so I know it exists but I'd love a better image - can you help?


28 March 2023

Luther Arkwright at the Cartoon Museum - part 6

It's recently closed at the Cartoon Museum but here's the final part of my look at the recent Bryan Talbot’s Luther Arkwright: 50 years of a British comics legend

Part 1 was here
Part 2 was here
Part 3 was here
Part 4 was here
Part 5 was here










It's Charlie Adlard!



27 March 2023

Fizz comic

An oddity to me this one - I'd love to know more about it. Interestingly it describes itself as a "comic for teenagers" so I wonder of it's trying to position itself as a stepping stone from 'traditional' humour comics (for kids) but isn't quite Viz. I'm guessing short-lived mid-90s comic (when all those Viz clone comics were in their heyday).







back page...

26 March 2023

UPDATED: Mike Noble prints

This is another of those "I wonder how many of this sort of thing there really are out there?" posts...in this case it's limited edition prints by Mike Noble. 

I saw these images on eBay a while back and snagged them for posterity. So, the question is are there more prints out there that I should be aware of...



Thanks to the good folks on the TV CENTURY 21 and COUNTDOWN - Adventure in the 21st Century... Facebook page we can now add the following images to Mike's output