UPDATED: Beano characters 'In flight fun' with Airtours

I'm always delighted / intrigued to spot advertisers using comics as a medium and I spotted these two comics on ebay recently (so apologies for the quality of some of the images). I'd not come across 'In flight fun' before so I don't know if it just features Beano characters in these 2 issues or even if there were any subsequent issues. Any help gladly received!

Updates are in red, below...

In flight fun (Airtours) - issue 1

In flight fun (Airtours) - issue 2

In flight fun (Airtours) - issue 3

I've now found (here) a copy of issue 4

cover art by Robert Nixon

In flight fun (Airtours) - issue 5

cover art by David Sutherland

In flight fun (Airtours) - issue 6

All other Beano references on the blog can be found here

Comics 101

I've looked at a whole lot of comic conventions previously...

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

BICS convention is here

Glasgow comic con is here 

Kapow! con is here

British comic conventions, 1970-76 is here

British comic conventions, 1977-81 is here

A miscellany is here

But I wanted to look at one convention in a little more detail - and use this blog posting as somewhere to host any and all images I can find about 'Comics 101'. Comics 101 was held on March 19th, 20th and 21st 1976 at the Royal Mount Hotel in London. 

The programme is A5 sized, 80 pages long and stuffed with art from a great selection of artists - many of whom are poorly represented in the other programmes I've looked at previously - mainly because they were working on (humour) strips in British comics that later convention organisers weren't interested in. Programme cover art is by Denis Gifford himself.

I'll get to a list of programme contributors shortly but I just wanted to also use this post as an ongoing reference piece for images, reviews etc. of Comics 101 that I come across in my researches.

First up, images c/o friend of the blog Chris Murray, is a copy of some advertising material for the con...

Now then, back to that list of artist contributors...

Mick Anglo - Marvelman

Barry Appleby

Martin Asbuy - the $6m dollar man

Jim Baikie

Nick Baker - Smiler from 'Whoopee'

Les Barton - Harry's haunted house

Terry Bave - various characters

Leo Baxendale - Willy the kid

Frank Bellamy - Garth

Harry Bishop - Matt Dillon

Raymond Briggs - Father Christmas

Cliff Browns - Timothy Tester

Mike Brown - various characters

Sid Burgon - various characters

John M Burns - Danielle

Geoff Campion - various characters

Jim Crocker - various characters

Roland Davies - Steve

Dickens - Bristow

Jack Dunkley - The Larks

Ron Embleton - Harold Wilson, Edward Heath & Wicked Wanda

Hunt Emerson - Dogman

Evelyn Flinders - the silent three at St Kits

Len Gamblin - The Flutters

Denis Gifford - various characters

Toni Goffe - Loser

Charles Grigg - Dandy characters

Frank Hampson - various Dan Dare characters

Mike Higgs - Moonbird

Bert Hill - unknown characters

MA Saporito - various IPC staff

Arthur Jackson - Handy Sandy

Walter Bell - various characters

Cyril Jacob - gag acrtoon

Geoff Jones - various characters

John Kent - Varoomshka

Ian Knox - monsters

Mike Lacey - various Whizzer & Chips characters

Don Lawrence - various characters

Maddocks - Four D Jones

Norman Mansbridge - various humour comic characters

Denis McLoughlin - various characters

Hugn Mcneill - various characters

J Metcalge - various Whizzer & Chips characters

Hugh Marven - Wack

Robert Nixon - Frankie Stein

Kevin O'Neill - horror picture

Basil Reynolds - various characters

Wally Robertson - Ma & Marmy

Fred Robinson - the gremlins

John Ryan - Harris Tweed (from Eagle)

MA Saporito - dragon

Ern Shaw - various characters

Ann Spano - various characters

Bill Titcombe - Tom & Jerry

Herb Trimpe - the Incredible Hulk

Terry Wakefield - Laurel & Hardy

Brian Walker - Scream Inn

Tony Weare - cowboys

Graham Webb - Igor

Brian White - Nipper

Hugh Stanley White - Young Marvelman

Ken Wilkins - Ma, pa and baby Ba

Robert Nixon book covers

Images from my collection (the Stewpot books) and t'internet - covers all by Robert Nixon, enjoy!

Classic British humour characters - rare art (4 of 4)

From the pages of the Comics 101 convention brochure comes this final selection of art by some of the big names of British comics humour art of the 1970s...

Robert Nixon - more boook covers

Some positive feedback the other day to my small gallery of Robert Nixon's work for Look-In magazine spin-off titles, so here's 3 more books that his artwork graced...

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.

Look-In tie-in book - part 2

Another wrap-around cover by British humour comics great Robert Nixon...as you can see I've acquired the most bashed about copy that I could find on Amazon :)

Look-In tie-in book - part 1

An unusual example of the work of British humour comics artist Robert Nixon - who I normally associate with strips such as Frankie Stein - providing lovely wrap-around cover art for the small (slightly smaller than A5) Look-In tie-in book, written by Denis Gifford. In fact Denis provided internal art along with comic strips by Trevor Metcalfe

Bank holiday reading sorted - part 3

And last but not least I present a rather battered copy (by which I mean the cover isn't attached to the rest of the summer special any more) of the 2nd (of) 8 Frankie Stein summer specials - this is 1976 edition.
Cover is by Robert 'Bob' Nixon but (and with apologies to him) the real reason I got it was for the Ken Reid strips inside.

You get 7 Ken Reid illustrated strips (most single page; some double page and one in colour (the back page)), here's a few examples to wet your appetite for all things Ken Reid...

Plus an adventure strip called Crabbe's Crusaders which was new to me - anyone able to enlighten me?