There are many great artistic things about the Comicon 1978 brochure (cover by Frank Bellamy, interior art contributions from Brian Bolland, MichMcMahon, Jack Kirby, Frank Thorne & Brian Lewis - what a list!).
There is also, according to well-known fanzine collector Ewan Bronlow, the first published work by Dave McKean. It's a rather innocuous advert for Alan Green and you can see the initials DM on the right of the advert. Dave was born (according to wikipedia) n 29th December 1963 so that's make him probably just 14 when he drew the advert....
I've always enjoyed collecting programmes issued by comic conventions - often because they contained unique illustrations - but until I started looking at this in such detail I had no idea just how many programmes there were out there to collect...
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
Glasgow comic con is here British comic conventions, 1970-76 is here British comic conventions, 1977-81 is here
