Commando calendar 2022

You can now order the Commando calendar for 2022 here 

Details are as follows...

Pre-order now for delivery in August!

Buy one calendar for £7.99, two for £13.50, four for £23.50 or six for £30.00 - saving over 35%!

Since its first issue in 1961, Commando Comics has brought its readers thrilling tales of heroism, valour, and comradery. Still printing today, and with over 5,400 amazing issues, Commando remains the longest-running British war comic ever! From its debut, Commando has been well regarded for its stunning artwork with subjects spanning land, sea, and air!

This collection of covers features a mixture of pieces curated by Commando’s Designer Grant Wood, that range from the Classic Golden Era of the comic to modern day masterpieces. Included are 17 covers by some of the world’s greatest ever comic artists as well as a special double page-spread pull-out poster! Get ready to jump into action each month with this calendar, collecting some of the best covers from Commando’s archives, featuring artwork by Ian Kennedy, Neil Roberts, Keith Burns, and many more!

If you use the code SAVE15 you'll get 15% off (until 11th July)

The rest of the Commando calendars are here

All my Ian Kennedy references on the blog are here

All my Ken Barr references on the blog are here

All my Keith Burns references on the blog are here

All my Neil Roberts references on the blog are here

All my DC Thomson references on the blog are here

UPDATED: Commando calendars

The Commando calendar for 2021 is now available to buy here and it's a 60th anniversary special, with contributions from a variety of artists. Check out these (small, sorry) images they've teased...

art by Carlos Pino, Keith Burns, Ian Kennedy, Ken Barr, Gordon Livingstone, Chaco, Jeff Bevan, Jordi Penalva, Manuel Benet, Tom Foster, Neil Roberts, Graeme Neil Reid, Jose Maria Jorge

...and here are my notes about other Commando calendars...

Looking at my Ian Kennedy calendar the other day made me start wondering about precisely how many Commando calendars there were out there for the collector...

Updates are shown in red

Not published by DC Thomson (but produced under licence from them) this large calendar (it's about twice the size of the Ian Kennedy calendar, above) was the first Commando calendar to be produced. This was sold mainly in bargain bookshops. 

UPDATED: 2007's 'The art of Commando' calendar 

By 2009 the licence for producing a calendar had changed hands - covers selection is by Calum Laird (better image now used).

Then there was a good run of 3 years in a row when the calendar came out...

Commando calendar 2012

Commando calendar 2013

Commando calendar 2014

Then a few fallow years until 2018...

Commando calendar 2018

Commando calendar 2019

Commando calendar 2020

While I don't have all the Commando calendars above, here's a calendar that I REALLY wish I'd got at the time...2009 saw two DC Thomson calendars from 'Unique' (the Art of Commando is shown above) and this is the second one....

The journal of Luke Kirby

The announcement the other day (see http://downthetubes.net/?p=35293) that Rebellion are to collect together all the 'Journal of Luke Kirby' strips from 2000ad made me reach for the scanner to show you these....

Issue 1 (cover by Ken Barr)

 

Issue 2 (cover by Ken Barr)

 

Issue 3 (cover by Ken Barr)

back cover artwork

Right now these are the only place to find Luke Kirby reprints. Issue 1 of 'Night Walker' collates episodes 1-5 of the story 'Night Walker', issue 2 has episodes 6-10 and issue 3 has episodes 11-13. Script is by Alan McKenzie, art by John Ridgway and lettering by Annie P(arkhouse). These comics took me a while to find, I think in the end I may even have had to buy them from a US dealer. Well worth checking out.