UPDATED CCGB - Cartoonists' Club of Great Britain

I've looked before at the Cartoonists' Club of Great Britain (CCGB) and some of the material that is out there for collectors. 

Today's update is these two members handbooks that I'd not seen before. The first ('silver') is for 1985 and the second ('dark blue') covers the 1988/89 year. I'm intrigued to see who's contributed interior art to these and will post an update shortly.

Cartoonists' Club of Great Britain members handbook - 1985

Cartoonists' Club of Great Britain members handbook - 1988/89

Today's update is a look at the 1965 cartoonists club dinner & ball. An event so grand that the prime minister spoke at it!

All images are sourced from this large format (approx. A4) sized, about 80 page brochure. It's rammed with trade adverts & stuff so I've just picked out the most comic-y pages

The actual Prime Minister talking to a bunch of cartoonists!

Check out that fancy food that cartoonists eat!

Its a pretty strong list of winners...Leslie Illingworth, Harry Bishop, Frank Dickens, Reg Smythe, Osbert Lancaster, Jak, Larry

There's a members handbook here, here and here

The book 'It's all here in black and white' is here

22nd annual birthday lunch is here

Since then I've come across further items that the club produced...

This was produced in 1964 (the club was formed in 1960)

This was produced (originally) in 1963 as British Cartoonists Year Book 1964 - this edition was published in March 1965

These were from a 1979 flight to New York

This was produced in 1989...

UPDATED CCGB - Cartoonists' Club of Great Britain

I've looked before at the Cartoonists' Club of Great Britain (CCGB) and some of the material that is out there for collectors. 

Today's update is a look at the 1965 cartoonists club dinner & ball. An event so grand that the prime minister spoke at it!

All images are sourced from this large format (approx. A4) sized, about 80 page brochure. It's rammed with trade adverts & stuff so I've just picked out the most comic-y pages

The actual Prime Minister talking to a bunch of cartoonists!

Check out that fancy food that cartoonists eat!

Its a pretty strong list of winners...Leslie Illingworth, Harry Bishop, Frank Dickens, Reg Smythe, Osbert Lancaster, Jak, Larry

There's a members handbook here, here and here

The book 'It's all here in black and white' is here

22nd annual birthday lunch is here

Since then I've come across further items that the club produced...

This was produced in 1964 (the club was formed in 1960)

This was produced (originally) in 1963 as British Cartoonists Year Book 1964 - this edition was published in March 1965

These were from a 1979 flight to New York

This was produced in 1989...

the newspaper strip gazette - part 2

Finishing off my look at the Newspaper strip gazette then...
Issue 4 (November 2010)
Contents include Jane index (1953-57), Buck Ryan index part 2 (1940-46), sample strips of The Seekers (by John M Burns & Les Lilley), Gun Law (by Harry Bishop), Axa (by Donne Avenell & Romero), and Patti

Issue 5 (January 2011)
Contents include 'collecting corner' (by, er, me!), Jane index (1957-59), Buck Ryan index (1946-52), profile of writer Don Freeman and sample strips of The Seekers (by John M Burns & Les Lilley), Gun Law (by Harry Bishop), Jeff Hawke (by Sydney Jordan), and Patti

Issue 6 - March 2011
Contents include 'collecting corner' (by, er, me!), Buck Ryan index (1952-57), profile of writer Norman Pett and sample strips of The Seekers (by John M Burns & Les Lilley), Gun Law (by Harry Bishop), Susi (by Norman Pett), and Patti

Assuming the same publication schedule then the series continued thus (but I don't have any copies of these)
Issue 7 - May 2011
Issue 8 - July 2011
Issue 9 - September 2011
Issue 10 - November 2011
Issue 11 - January 2012
Issue 12 - March 2012 

Issue 13 - May 2012
Contents include introductions to classic western strips Matt Marriott, Rick Martin, Gun Law and Cisco Kid, Matt Marriott index and sample strips of The Seekers (by John M Burns & Les Lilley), Matt Marriott (by Tony Weare) Gun Law (by Harry Bishop), Cisco Kid (by Jose Luis Salinas) and Rick Martin.

...sadly I've no idea if this was the last issue or if it ran and ran - can you help? Get in touch if you can

the newspaper strip gazette - part 1

Continuing my interest in all sorts of comics publications, here's something a little different...The newspaper strip gazette. A4 sized, loose leaf, black and white, 12 pages dedicated to all things to do with newspaper strips in comics

Issue1 (May2010)
Contents include...profile of artist Norman Pett, checklist of Jane stories (1938-46), sample strips of The Seekers (by John M Burns & Les Lilley), Gun Law (by Harry Bishop), Carol Day by David Wright and Patti

Issue 2 (July 2010)
Contents include...profile of artist Mike Hubbard, checklist of Jane stories (1946-53), sample strips of The Seekers (by John M Burns & Les Lilley), Gun Law (by Harry Bishop), Carol Day by David Wright and Patti

 Issue 3 (September 2010)
Contents include...profile of artist Jack Monk, checklist of Buck Ryan stories (1937-41), sample strips of The Seekers (by John M Burns & Les Lilley), Gun Law (by Harry Bishop) and Patti

Look-In tie-in book - part 3

Robert Nixon's 3rd, and final, contribution to the series was this cover for 'Stewpot's holiday fun book' - for some reason this titles seems much harder to track down than the other 2 volumes. This is the only image of the cover I could track down.

The final volume of interest is this one...cover by Ron Embleton and interior art is by Harry Bishop, well worth looking out for.

Ally Sloper #2 - Kev O'Neill & Harry Bishop

From the pages of Ally Sloper magazine #2 (October 1976) comes this early piece of Kev O'Neill artwork...

and here's the issue to Ally Sloper #2 - cover by renowned western artist Harry Bishop