Care Bears - Marvel UK

I've not got house room for every interesting comic I come across. For the Marvel UK Care Bears comics I like the covers more than I suspect I'd like the interiors! 

Anyway, I swiped this image of a recent auction lot just to record for posterity the existence of official Care Bears comics binders. 

Lawless 2025 - the photos, part 11

For anyone (like me!) who thinks it'a a very long time to wait until Lawless 2026 here's some photos of Lawless 2025 to help keep you going until May 2026.

Simon Bisley prints were here

More prints & Bisley paintings were here

Bisley pencil work is here

Original comic art for sale here

Brian Bolland was here

The convention floor was here

Guests were here

More guests were here

Henry Flint was here

A miscellany of images was here

and now a 2nd miscellany of images...

Rare 2000AD stuff up for sale...

Dinosaurs in the lift (obviously)

Dave Broughton 

MC2

The Midlands Comic Collective produced at least 2 issues of their "MC2" anthology in the early 2000s.

The 'red' issue [so called so that I can differentiate it from the other issue to which it bears a very close resemblance] has a red background to the MC2 title. There's a list of contributors below - including Hunt Emerson, John McCrea, Laura Howell and plenty more...96 pages (excluding covers), slightly bigger than US comic format, b+w art throughout.

The blue issue features "new comic stories by the Midlands Comic Collective" but as I don't have this issue to hand I can't supply a list of stories / contributors. If you can help then do just let me know, thanks!

Ally Sloper - Walter Bell

I'm just recording for posterity the existence of this page of Ally Sloper art from issue #2 of Denis Gifford's 1976 Ally Sloper comic. 

It was sold for £66 by ace ebay seller phil-comics (here) on 11th May 2025

The Jack Kirby Quarterly

Just a chance to record what issues 1-9 of this UK fanzine, the Jack Kirby quarterly, look like. Image snagged from this ebay seller - check out their other stuff! 

From 1993+

Donut Squad - Neill Cameron

Just leaving this image here for posterity. 

Original art by Neill Cameron that was up for sale in 2024.

UPDATED: undated annuals

As it's Christmas time it must be time to look at undated annuals, I  recently picked up my second undated Eagle annual as I know they're pretty uncommon - either as a mis-print or as a deliberate act. 

And now with some further examples...

c/o Paul Richardson

c/o Simon Werrett

c/o Alan Marshall

Care of friend of the blog Michael Carroll I can add this undated 1977 Action annual to the listing...

and c/o Wayne Harris I can add my first example of an undated Battle annual

Now (c/o Scott Bartlett on the '77-2000AD Facebook group) I can add a 2000AD annual to this listing... 

Previously I just has an undated Eagle annual for 1972 (below) - the front cover and spine are undated...

Here's what it should have looked like...

The Eagle annuals of 1971/2/3/5 all seem particularly set-up to have the date removed (if necessary) as it's a different colour to the rest of the cover...

...and now I have an undated 1971 annual too

The date has also been removed from the spine

...and now I have an undated 1975 annual too

So now I'm just after undated annuals for 1973 - if you can help me out with these just let me know...

I've read a theory that it was done so that the annuals could be shipped overseas where, because of the time taken to get them there by boat, they'd need a longer shelf-life to sell and if the annual was dated people wouldn't buy it as the year was already well under way.

Here are some other examples - anyone else got any other examples or theories about undated annuals? 

and now, c/o Chris |Young...

Simon Bisley paints Jesus

To get us in the mood for Christmas here's some Simon Bisley...

The item was described thus...

Here we have a rare print, dating to the 70s/80s, of Simon Bisley's iconic Christ painting from his "Paintings from the Bible" series.

It was discovered in an Italian mercatina and is displayed in it's original Italian stucco frame.

I have never seen a copy of this anywhere else, and the leading expert on Bisley's work, who runs the Simon Bisley fans website, has confirmed that he was unaware that any  prints of this original work existed, and concludes that it is an interesting and scarce find.

The poster is made from a material that has a sheen to it and it appears to possibly be washable, though I haven't tried....could be a thin vinyl? It reminds me of the tough, non-rip posters Athena used to sell in the 70s/80s. 

It is in good condition, size 30 ins by 15.5 ins (inner frame measurements)  but has been pasted onto its'  backing rather inexpertly, giving it a slight wrinkle from the side angle but not quite as noticeable from the front, see pics. Due to the nature of the material I would imagine it may be possible to re-back it sympathetically.

UPDATED: Junior Jet Club - part 4 (of 4)

Before the early 1980s issues of Fleetwings it appears to have been a more sporadic publication, here are the issues from the British Airways Archive (where all these images come from)...

UPDATED: now with the (June) 1975 issue included

Fleetwings 1978

Fleetwings 1977

Fleetwings - June 1976

Fleetwings - June 1975

Fleetwings - June 1974

Fleetwings - June 1973

Fleetwings 1972

Fleetwings - Summer 1971

The Windsor tapestry - part 10

Some more images from the recently closed 'The Windsor tapestry' exhibition held at the Cartoon Museum in London (here)

Part 1 was here

Part 2 was here

Part 3 was here

Part 4 was here

Part 5 was here

Part 6 was here

Part 7 was here

Part 8 was here

Part 9 was here

Steve himself (left) and museum director Joe Sullivan (centre)