Warlord belt

Just recording the existence of this Warlord belt for posterity. Thanks to Alan Taylor on the Warlord facebook group (here) for sharing this.

All other examples of comics merchandise featured on the blog can be found here

Comic Cutz - the art of Barrie Mitchell (part 13)

The Barrie Mitchell exhibition that took place in Ryde in February 2026 had many highlights and a LOT of art. I tried to take photos of all the art but there was too much! Anyway, here's the start of a long series of posts all about the art that was there...

1). Harlem Heroes was here

2). paintings of cars was here

3). his work for Red Dwarf was here

4). some football art was here

5). some Dr Who art was here

6). some more Dr Who art was here

7). yet more Dr Who art was here

8). even more Dr Who art was here

9). a final selection of Dr Who art was here

10). some Marks Brothers art was here

11). his work on Scorer was here here

12). some of his recent paintings was here

Now some character sketches...

 

SSI journal - 1987

I've looked before at all things to do with the SSI (Society of Strip Illustration) here and I like the newsletters they produced BUT these were produced in very low quantities so you stand virtually no chance of collecting a set. 

I've looked at some examples of the SSI journal for... 

1981 here

1982 here

1983 here

1985 here

1986 here

1992 here 

and for other years I'm just going to collect images for the covers as and when they come up for sale on ebay. Over time we might end up with a full (??) set. So here's the start of a covers gallery for SSI journal for 1987...

SSI journal, June 1987

SSI journal, July 1987 - art by Carl Critchlow

SSI journal, October 1987 - art by Carl Critchlow

Get along gang weekly - covers gallery, part 7

I'm indebted to friend of the blog (and mad keen Marvel UK collector) Richard Gilham for taking the time to share these covers from his collection. Yes, it's the start of a Get along gang covers gallery! Marvel UK published 93 issues in total from April 1985 to January 1987.

Part 1 (issues 1-8) was here

Part 2 (issues 9-16) was here

Part 3 (issues 17-24) was here

Part 4 (issues 25-32) was here

Part 5 (issues 33-40) was here

Part 6 (issues 41-48) was here

Get along gang, Marvel UK, issue #49, 30p, 22nd March 1986

Get along gang, Marvel UK, issue #50, 30p, 29th March 1986

Get along gang, Marvel UK, issue #51, 30p, 5th April 1986

Get along gang, Marvel UK, issue #52, 30p, 12th April 1986

Get along gang, Marvel UK, issue #53, 30p, 19th April 1986

Get along gang, Marvel UK, issue #54, 30p, 26th April 1986

Get along gang, Marvel UK, issue #55, 30p, 3rd May 1986

Get along gang, Marvel UK, issue #56, 30p, 10th May 1986

Heroes! The British invasion of American comics - part 14

Recently (ish!) finished at the Cartoon Museum (here) was their exhibition 'Heroes! The British invasion of American comics'. 

For anyone who couldn't make it here's part 14 of my look at what you missed...

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

Part 10 was here

Part 11 was here

Part 12 was here

Part 13 was here

Lawless 2026 - part 4

As ever there's SO much going on at Lawless convention that it's hard to try and take it all in, however I did manage to take a few photographs this year. I've grouped them together thematically and hopefully they'll bring back pleasant memories or inspire you to go to Lawless 2027 (being held on the 15th and 16th May 2027).

First up is Steve Dillon (t-shirts & art) here

Some of the original comic art that was on sale here

Liam Sharp art here

Some more of the amazing Liam Sharp artwork that was on display

UPDATED: - Fusion covers

I'm grateful to Andrew Wolf for bringing these fanzine to my attention. He did so over on the "Fans of Alan Davis" Facebook page (here). I've not seen other covers for Fusion so if you can help me out with other images that'd be great. Andrew says 9 issues all with a print run of less than 200 copies.

UPDATE (24/09/26); now with covers for issues 8 & 9 added + a piece of interior art from issue #6 (thanks to friend of the blog Andrew Wolf - check out his Miracleman blog on Tumblr here)

UPDATE (21/07/26); now with covers for issues 1 & 3 added

UPDATE (01/07/26); with thanks to Comics Tony & Ewan Brownlow for their feedback on the original post. Updated with covers for issues 4, 6 & 7.

Fusion fanzine, #1, 30p

cover by Alex Breadner

Fusion fanzine, #2, 30p

cover by Alan Davis

Fusion fanzine, #3, 30p

front cover art by Mark King

back cover art by Grant Morrison

Fusion fanzine, #4, 30p

cover by Grant Morrison

Fusion fanzine, #5, 40p

cover by Alan Davis

Fusion fanzine, #6, 30p

cover by Grant Morrison

interior art (from issue 6) of Black Alice by Grant Morrison and Tony O'Donnell

Fusion fanzine, #7, 40p

cover by Tony O'Donnell

Fusion fanzine, #8, 40p

cover by Tim Pearce

Fusion fanzine, #9, 40p

cover by Christopher Walsh

Tarkan - covers gallery, part 4

Tarkan is a well-known Turkish comic character (see his wikipedia entry here). It first appeared in 1967. In 1973 there was a short-lived pan-European comic published in Austria, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Netherlands, Luxembourg and here in England too. Full colour, 16 pages in length.

Here's the start of a covers gallery for this title... 

Part 1 was here

Part 2 was here

Part 3 was here

Tarkan, weekly, #22, 28th July 1973

Tarkan, weekly, #23, 4th August 1973

Tarkan, weekly, #24, 11th August 1973

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Tarkan, weekly, #25, 18th August 1973

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Tarkan, weekly, #26, 25th August 1973

Tarkan, weekly, #27, 1st September 1973

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Tarkan, weekly, #28, 8th September 1973

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all images from this ebay seller