Crack! - an Edinburgh festival of strip comedy

Until I saw this festival brochure the other day this was a completely unknown comics festival to me. Held in 1998 and hard to google becuase of the phrase "Edinburgh comedy festival" this seems to have been a one-ff event.

The 64 page brochure (plus covers) provides a reminder that it really did happen. Full credits list for contributors is below.

Full credits listing...

Art by Davy Francis

Art by Hunt Emerson

Art by Kate Charlesworth (reprinted from The Guardian)

Art by Frank Quitely

For all other mentions on the blog of Frank Quitely click here

For all other mentions on the blog of Davy Francis click here

For all other mentions on the blog of Hunt Emerson click here

For all other mentions on the blog of Kate Charlesworth click here

Loadsa Funnies (part 4) - Davy Francis

I've looked before at publications associated with the Cartoon Aid charity (like Band Aid but with more cartoons and less Bob Geldof) - if you missed them they are as follows..

a). the Olympic book is here

b). Bryan Hitch's work in the Kidz book is here

c). Mike Collin's work in the Kidz book is here

d). Terry & Sheila Bave's work in the Kidz book is here

e). Simon Donald's work in the Kidz book is here

f). an auction and a festival were also organised is here

g). Loadsa Funnies part 1 (Jim Baikie) is here

h). Loadsa Funnies part 2 (Judge Dredd) is here

I). Loads a Funnies part 3 (Bryan Hitch & Reg Smythe is) here 

Today the focus is on Northern Ireland cartoonist Davy Francis, who's work I recognise from Oink

Cartoon Aid - Olympic Book

A while ago (here) I looked at this book/annual which had been produced by the Cartoon Aid charity (it's from the era of Band Aid so it doesn't take much imagination to see where the title came from)...

I've now discovered they produced a further book - entitled 'The Cartoon Aid Olympic Book'. There are 5 colours in the Olympics and there are at least 3 different colour editions of this book. I've only got the red version but I'm assuming that all the books are the same, they just have a different colour cover.

The book doesn't have an introduction or a list of contributors but it is a full colour A4 sized book with hundreds of page long with single image cartons (rather than comic strips) all on the theme of the Olympics. The cartoons come from all over the world so most of the contributors won't be known to you,

Here are some of the cartoons by some British creators...

some  Davy Francis art there

Andy Capp not using the Olympic flame for the purpose for which it was designed

More Davy Francis art

And here's Nigel 'Beano' Parkinson's contribution...the question is whatever happened to Mafia Mouse?