Heroes! The British invasion of American comics - part 5

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 5 of my look at what you missed...

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Total Carnage (1993-4)

I've looked at a few Dark Horse International titles over the years...

Jurassic Park here

Star Wars featuring Indiana Jones here

Max Overload! #1 here

Max Overload! #2 here

Alien 3 movie special here

...and today it's the turn of the short-run title Total Carnage - 10 issues from 1993-4

Total Carnage, issue 1, April 1993, Dark Horse International, £1.50

Total Carnage, issue 2, May 1993, Dark Horse International, £1.50

Total Carnage, issue 3, June 1993, Dark Horse International, £1.50

Total Carnage, issue 4, July 1993, Dark Horse International, £1.50

Total Carnage, issue 5, August 1993, Dark Horse International, £1.50

Total Carnage, issue 6, September 1993, Dark Horse International, £1.50

Total Carnage, issue 7, October 1993, Dark Horse International, £1.50

Total Carnage, issue 8, November 1993, Dark Horse International, £1.50

Total Carnage, issue 9, December 1993, Dark Horse International, £1.50

Total Carnage, issue 10, January 1994, Dark Horse International, £1.50

Batman day signing

Just a reminder that this is happening today - have fun if you're going

Just a quick shout-out for this #BatmanDay signing happening at Gosh comics on the 21st September

Batman day signing

Just a quick shout-out for this #BatmanDay signing happening at Gosh comics on the 21st September

Comic festival 2003+4

I've looked a few different conventions before....

Bristol comic expo (2004-2014) is here

London comic festival 2003 is here
Kev Sutherland festival original art is here
A 'Lawless 2019' miscellany is here
Boys and Girls exhibitions of the 1950s and '60s is here
Glasgow comic art convention is here
Edinburgh art convention is here
Hi-Ex convention is here

UKCAC - part 1 - is here
UKCAC - part 2 - is here

UKCAC - part 3 - is here

BICS convention is here

Glasgow comic con is here

Kapow! comic con is here

British comic conventions 1970-76 is here 

British comic conventions 1977-81 is here 

Comic conventions miscellany is here

Comics 101 is here

Strips 78 is here

Comicon 1972 is here

Eaglecon 80 - part 1 - is here

Comicon 1971 is here

Comicon 1970 is here

Bristol comic expo 2023 is here

ALL the Lawless 2023 posts can be found here

Alexandra Palace in 1992 is here

11th British comic convention (1979) is here

6th British comic convention (1973) is here

Comic fest 2001+2 is here

2003 & 2004 saw Kev Sutherland expand his efforts into producing 2 huge festivals a year...

Here's the May 2003 cover image - again, this was a piece of A2 paper folded into an A5 size leaflet (which included the voting form for the 6th national comics awards). The guest list was, as ever, enormous. Star guests were Jeff Smith, Bryan Talbot & Jim Lee. 

cover art for the one-day festival in London in November  2003, cover art by Mark Buckingham. Usual A2 piece of paper folded up into A5 size.

The last Bristol event, sob! A2 sized piece of paper folded up as usual. Voting form for the awards, loads of guests, panel etc.

The last one! A2 sized piece of paper folded up as usual.

Comic Festival 2001+2

I've looked a few different conventions before....

Bristol comic expo (2004-2014) is here

London comic festival 2003 is here
Kev Sutherland festival original art is here
A 'Lawless 2019' miscellany is here
Boys and Girls exhibitions of the 1950s and '60s is here
Glasgow comic art convention is here
Edinburgh art convention is here
Hi-Ex convention is here

UKCAC - part 1 - is here
UKCAC - part 2 - is here

UKCAC - part 3 - is here

BICS convention is here

Glasgow comic con is here

Kapow! comic con is here

British comic conventions 1970-76 is here 

British comic conventions 1977-81 is here 

Comic conventions miscellany is here

Comics 101 is here

Strips 78 is here

Comicon 1972 is here

Eaglecon 80 - part 1 - is here

Comicon 1971 is here

Comicon 1970 is here

Bristol comic expo 2023 is here

ALL the Lawless 2023 posts can be found here

Alexandra Palace in 1992 is here

11th British comic convention (1979) is here

6th British comic convention (1973) is here

The A5 brochure (which really was a single piece of A2 paper folded up) unfolded to produce a pair of A3 sized posters. Art by Kev walker.

Art by Trevor Hairsine

The A5 sized, 32 page brochure for Comics 2002 is graced with a Frank Quitely cover. Yet again Kev Sutherland put together an absolutely massive event across Bristol with over 150 writers, artists, editors, publishers and the like

Kapow - the art of making comics & film; original comic art, part 12

Just ended at the Rugby Art Museum & Gallery is Kapow - the art of making comics and film (more details here). If you've not yet been to this free exhibition here are just a few of the pages of original vintage British comics art that were on display

I looked at vintage British comic art here and here and here
I looked at 2000AD / Dredd art here
Frank Bellamy art is here
Bernie Wrightson is here
A selection of artists here

Jock part 1 was here, part 2 was here, part 3 was here, part 4 was here

And now Jock. There was a LOT of art from 'One dark knight' there so I'll present it as a series of posts, so here's part 5...this is the final post.

Kapow - the art of making comics & film; original comic art, part 11

Just ended at the Rugby Art Museum & Gallery is Kapow - the art of making comics and film (more details here). If you've not yet been to this free exhibition here are just a few of the pages of original vintage British comics art that were on display

I looked at vintage British comic art here and here and here
I looked at 2000AD / Dredd art here
Frank Bellamy art is here
Bernie Wrightson is here
A selection of artists here

Jock part 1 was here, part 2 was here, part 3 was here

And now Jock. There was a LOT of art from 'One dark knight' there so I'll present it as a series of posts, so here's part 4...

Kapow - the art of making comics & film; original comic art, part 10

Just ended at the Rugby Art Museum & Gallery is Kapow - the art of making comics and film (more details here). If you've not yet been to this free exhibition here are just a few of the pages of original vintage British comics art that were on display

I looked at vintage British comic art here and here and here
I looked at 2000AD / Dredd art here
Frank Bellamy art is here
Bernie Wrightson is here
A selection of artists here

Jock part 1 was here, part 2 was here

And now Jock. There was a LOT of art from 'One dark knight' there so I'll present it as a series of posts, so here's part 3...