Oliver Frey - paintings

Just recording these recent auction sales of the work of Oliver Frey. These were paintings rather than his strip cartooning work - and the prices reflect that! These were cheap! But maybe people consider them harder to display than a piece of comic art.

Johnny Cougar art by Sandy James

I'm always delighted to share the art of Sandy James on the blog and here are some lovely examples of his original artwork - these were up for sale on ebay recently - and show a complete Johnny Cougar strip from the 3rd October 1970 issue of Tiger.

Battleground fanzine

A new one for me is this covers gallery for Battleground ('The comics discussion fanzine') from back in the day. I'd love to know how many issues this lasted. I remember seeing adverts for this in the back of Comics International but I never ordered a copy, more fool me by the looks of it - this looks great!

Battleground #1

cover not to hand - can you help?

Battleground #2

cover not to hand - can you help?

Battleground #3, cover by Adrian Hughes

contains this centrespread by Glenn Fabry

and there's an interview with him; and an interview with Paul Grist. In fact here's a look at the contents...

Battleground #4

cover not to hand - can you help?

Battleground #5, cover by Adrian Hughes

Into Battle! - the exhibition, part 3

It's just finished but for anyone who missed it, here's part 3 of my look at the 'Into battle! - the art of British war comics' exhibition. 

Part 1 was here

Part 2 was here

Thriller Picture Library #274, Giorgio De Gaspari

Thriller Picture Library #266, Giorgio De Gaspari