Cartoon network comic special

This is another of those comics that I'm filing under " I know nothing about this YET but I'm intrigued about it". Maybe there were other issues or maybe this was a one-off. Any help welcomed. 

Cartoon network cartoon special, issue #1, £1.75 

At the time of typing this is for sale here

UPDATED: British Cartoon Archive publications

I've (somehow!) never actually been to the British Cartoon Archive (more detail on its history here ) or (until very recently anyway) never owned any of its publications.

The EH Shephard catalogue was recently gifted to me by friend of the blog Eamonn Clarke (check out the essential listening podcast that is Mega City Book Club here) and it inspired to start looking into what other publications they've produced over the years.

This is surely a very incomplete list but you've got to start somewhere! Any further example would be very welcome.

One new addition to the listing for this post...

Centre for the study of cartoons and caricature, Bulletin, October 1979

I recently spotted this on ebay and know very little about it. I've no idea how (ir)regularly these bulletins were published. Any further information gratefully received.

One new addition to the listing for this post...

an exhibition from 1986

There was also apparently a Handbook [to the cartoon classification, 1976]

One new addition to the listing for this post...

I'm grateful for this website for the above image. This 16 page booklet was another of the earliest publications by the Archive.

Two new additions to the listing for this post...

Stabbed in the Front: Post-war General Elections  Through Political Cartoons, by Alan Mumford, published in 2001

Published by the University of Kent at Canterbury showcasing many of the exhibits from the Centre for the Study of Cartoons and Caricature that were put together for a touring exhibition around the UK and part of France. Bi-lingual publication from 1992.

Two new additions to the listing for this post...

Getting Them in Line: An Exhibition of Caricature in Cartoon opened on Friday 31st October 1975 to mark the inauguration of the Centre for the Study of Cartoons and Caricature, published by University of Kent at Canterbury in 1975.

Beaverbrook's England 1940-1965: An exhibition of cartoon originals (1981)

An Exhibition Of Newspaper Cartoon Originals by Michael Cummings, David Low, icky & Sidney "George" Strube

Introduction by A.J.P Taylor 

University Of Kent - 1981 

EH Shepard exhibition, University of Kent, Summer 1974, A4 sized, 36 pages (including covers), A4 sized, black & white art throughout.

Political cartoons of 1998

Giles - one of the family

UPDATED: British Cartoon Archive publications

I've (somehow!) never actually been to the British Cartoon Archive (more detail on its history here ) or (until very recently anyway) never owned any of its publications.

The EH Shephard catalogue was recently gifted to me by friend of the blog Eamonn Clarke (check out the essential listening podcast that is Mega City Book Club here) and it inspired to start looking into what other publications they've produced over the years.

This is surely a very incomplete list but you've got to start somewhere! Any further example would be very welcome.

One new addition to the listing for this post...

an exhibition from 1986

There was also apparently a Handbook [to the cartoon classification, 1976]

One new addition to the listing for this post...

I'm grateful for this website for the above image. This 16 page booklet was another of the earliest publications by the Archive.

Two new additions to the listing for this post...

Stabbed in the Front: Post-war General Elections  Through Political Cartoons, by Alan Mumford, published in 2001

Published by the University of Kent at Canterbury showcasing many of the exhibits from the Centre for the Study of Cartoons and Caricature that were put together for a touring exhibition around the UK and part of France. Bi-lingual publication from 1992.

Two new additions to the listing for this post...

Getting Them in Line: An Exhibition of Caricature in Cartoon opened on Friday 31st October 1975 to mark the inauguration of the Centre for the Study of Cartoons and Caricature, published by University of Kent at Canterbury in 1975.

Beaverbrook's England 1940-1965: An exhibition of cartoon originals (1981)

An Exhibition Of Newspaper Cartoon Originals by Michael Cummings, David Low, icky & Sidney "George" Strube

Introduction by A.J.P Taylor 

University Of Kent - 1981 

EH Shepard exhibition, University of Kent, Summer 1974, A4 sized, 36 pages (including covers), A4 sized, black & white art throughout.

Political cartoons of 1998

Giles - one of the family

UPDATED: British Cartoon Archive publications

I've (somehow!) never actually been to the British Cartoon Archive (more detail on its history here ) or (until very recently anyway) never owned any of its publications.

The EH Shephard catalogue was recently gifted to me by friend of the blog Eamonn Clarke (check out the essential listening podcast that is Mega City Book Club here) and it inspired to start looking into what other publications they've produced over the years.

This is surely a very incomplete list but you've got to start somewhere! Any further example would be very welcome.

One new addition to the listing for this post...

I'm grateful for this website for the above image. This 16 page booklet was another of the earliest publications by the Archive.

Two new additions to the listing for this post...

Stabbed in the Front: Post-war General Elections  Through Political Cartoons, by Alan Mumford, published in 2001

Published by the University of Kent at Canterbury showcasing many of the exhibits from the Centre for the Study of Cartoons and Caricature that were put together for a touring exhibition around the UK and part of France. Bi-lingual publication from 1992.

Two new additions to the listing for this post...

Getting Them in Line: An Exhibition of Caricature in Cartoon opened on Friday 31st October 1975 to mark the inauguration of the Centre for the Study of Cartoons and Caricature, published by University of Kent at Canterbury in 1975.

Beaverbrook's England 1940-1965: An exhibition of cartoon originals (1981)

An Exhibition Of Newspaper Cartoon Originals by Michael Cummings, David Low, icky & Sidney "George" Strube

Introduction by A.J.P Taylor 

University Of Kent - 1981 

EH Shepard exhibition, University of Kent, Summer 1974, A4 sized, 36 pages (including covers), A4 sized, black & white art throughout.

Political cartoons of 1998

Giles - one of the family

UPDATED: British Cartoon Archive publications

I've (somehow!) never actually been to the British Cartoon Archive (more detail on its history here ) or (until very recently anyway) never owned any of its publications.

The EH Shephard catalogue was recently gifted to me by friend of the blog Eamonn Clarke (check out the essential listening podcast that is Mega City Book Club here) and it inspired to start looking into what other publications they've produced over the years.

This is surely a very incomplete list but you've got to start somewhere! Any further example would be very welcome.

Two new additions to the listing for this post...

Stabbed in the Front: Post-war General Elections  Through Political Cartoons, by Alan Mumford, published in 2001

Published by the University of Kent at Canterbury showcasing many of the exhibits from the Centre for the Study of Cartoons and Caricature that were put together for a touring exhibition around the UK and part of France. Bi-lingual publication from 1992.

Two new additions to the listing for this post...

Getting Them in Line: An Exhibition of Caricature in Cartoon opened on Friday 31st October 1975 to mark the inauguration of the Centre for the Study of Cartoons and Caricature, published by University of Kent at Canterbury in 1975.

Beaverbrook's England 1940-1965: An exhibition of cartoon originals (1981)

An Exhibition Of Newspaper Cartoon Originals by Michael Cummings, David Low, icky & Sidney "George" Strube

Introduction by A.J.P Taylor 

University Of Kent - 1981 

EH Shepard exhibition, University of Kent, Summer 1974, A4 sized, 36 pages (including covers), A4 sized, black & white art throughout.

Political cartoons of 1998

Giles - one of the family

UPDATED: British Cartoon Archive publications

I've (somehow!) never actually been to the British Cartoon Archive (more detail on its history here ) or (until very recently anyway) never owned any of its publications.

The EH Shephard catalogue was recently gifted to me by friend of the blog Eamonn Clarke (check out the essential listening podcast that is Mega City Book Club here) and it inspired to start looking into what other publications they've produced over the years.

This is surely a very incomplete list but you've got to start somewhere! Any further example would be very welcome.

Two new additions to the listing for this post...

Getting Them in Line: An Exhibition of Caricature in Cartoon opened on Friday 31st October 1975 to mark the inauguration of the Centre for the Study of Cartoons and Caricature, published by University of Kent at Canterbury in 1975.

Beaverbrook's England 1940-1965: An exhibition of cartoon originals (1981)

An Exhibition Of Newspaper Cartoon Originals by Michael Cummings, David Low, Vicky & Sidney "George" Strube

Introduction by A.J.P Taylor 

University Of Kent - 1981 

EH Shepard exhibition, University of Kent, Summer 1974, A4 sized, 36 pages (including covers), A4 sized, black & white art throughout.

Political cartoons of 1998

Giles - one of the family

British Cartoon Archive publications

I've (somehow!) never actually been to the British Cartoon Archive (more detail on its history here ) or (until very recently anyway) never owned any of its publications.

The EH Shephard catalogue was recently gifted to me by friend of the blog Eamonn Clarke (check out the essential listening podcast that is Mega City Book Club here) and it inspired to start looking into what other publications they've produced over the years.

This is surely a very incomplete list but you've got to start somewhere! Any further example would be very welcome.

EH Shepard exhibition, University of Kent, Summer 1974, A4 sized, 36 pages (including covers), A4 sized, black & white art throughout.

Political cartoons of 1998

Giles - one of the family

Eureka, the young world weekly (1998)

Eureka was an effort by ex-Eagle editor Derek Lord to launch a comic for young people in a similar vein to Eagle all those years before. There may have been more than one dummy produced (it was a project that had a long gestation period) but this is a copy of the dummy I have, A4 sized, full colour, 16 pages

page 2 has a tiny signature - WMS - which is for Bill Storie.

Here Derek Lord sets out his vision for Eureka

Show horse rustlers, by, it looks like the signature says, Nigel Park______ but the speech bubble (in frame 4) obliterates most of the surname. Very frustrating. The signature MUST be that of Nigel Parkinson but it's very unlike his usual cartoon-y style. This is the best art in the whole thing and is very much in the style of someone like Harry Lindfield or Mike Noble. 

Here's a close-up on that signature

John Ryan supplied this Captain Pugwash drawing

William Rudling drew Chloe

William Rudling also wrote & drew The Adventurers

I've since found this link to ace cartoonist Nigel Parkinson's blog for a strip that was intended for Eureka (but wasn't included in the dummy, above)

instead the dummy had this (below) version of Hadrian's Heroes in it instead...art by GM (this was Gordon Matthews) 

I prefer Nigel Parkinson's version!

Jeremy Briggs covered Eureka for Down the Tubes here and here - both the articles are well worth a read as they give a more detailed look at Eureka.