UPDATED: Nostalgia & Comics

My post the other day about the adverts for Dark they were and golden eyed (here) made me think about comics advertising for other shops...and then boom! this pops up on eBay. 

It's for sale here and is Trevor Goring's original artwork for  Birmingham's Nostalgia & Comics shop. I'd love to see other adverts for the shop.

Update (Mar 2026) I recently came across this advert in Escape #15 (May 1989). I'm assuming the signature 'Ormston' is that of comics artist Dean Ormston.

Update: the last post produced further examples of adverts so I'm just adding them to the post...

Lew Stringer sent me this

this was also c/o Lew

as was this - the first mention of the shop (in Comic Media News)

this was from Mark Warby

Update: friend of the blog Sam Farnworth has provided this image by artist Simon Parkes. Thanks! Plus I've found a Hunt Emerson advert.

this advert is taken from Alter Image #4 (November 1987)

UPDATED: Nostalgia & Comics

My post the other day about the adverts for Dark they were and golden eyed (here) made me think about comics advertising for other shops...and then boom! this pops up on eBay. 

It's for sale here and is Trevor Goring's original artwork for  Birmingham's Nostalgia & Comics shop. I'd love to see other adverts for the shop.

Update: the last post produced further examples of adverts so I'm just adding them to the post...

Lew Stringer sent me this

this was also c/o Lew

as was this - the first mention of the shop (in Comic Media News)

this was from Mark Warby

Update: friend of the blog Sam Farnworth has provided this image by artist Simon Parkes. Thanks! Plus I've found a Hunt Emerson advert.

this advert is taken from Alter Image #4 (November 1987)

Steve Dillon - CMNI #30

A while ago I looked at Steve's contribution to 'newszine' Comic Media News International...
His contribution to issue 38 is here
His contribution to issue 39 is here
His contribution to issue 40 is here

...but I've recently come across an even earlier piece he did for issue #30 (March-April 1977), so here we go my gift to you on the 4th anniversary of Steve's untimely death

Steve Dillon - CMNI #40

Listening to the 2000ad Thrillcast episode remembering artist Steve Dillon I heard Richard Burton talking about using Steve on his fanzines back in the day. Knowing that Richard was most likely to be talking about Comic Media News International (CMNI) I've looked at them to check out Steve's contribution to this zine...

I'll look at issue 40 today. Issue 38 was covered here and issue 39 was covered here, but for now here's issue 40 (from Summer 1980)...

Steve Dillon - CMNI #39

Listening to the 2000ad Thrillcast episode remembering artist Steve Dillon I heard Richard Burton talking about using Steve on his fanzines back in the day. Knowing that Richard was most likely to be talking about Comic Media News International (CMNI) I've looked at them to check out Steve's contribution to this zine...

I looked at issue 38 yesterday (here) and I'll look at issue 40 tomorrow, but for now here's issue 39 (from May - June 1979)...

Steve Dillon - CMNI #38

Listening to the 2000ad Thrillcast episode remembering artist Steve Dillon I heard Richard Burton talking about using Steve on his fanzines back in the day. Knowing that Richard was most likely to be talking about Comic Media News International (CMNI) I've looked at them to check out Steve's contribution to this zine...

I'll look at issues 39 and 40 over the next couple of days, first up is issue 38 (from October - November 1978)...