Violent #2 & #3

A few months ago (here to be precise) I looked at an issue of small press comic Violent! and its contributors - Simon Fraser, PJ Holden & others. Anyway, more copies of Violent! have now come my way so I'm going to continue my look at Violent! comic and its contributors...

Violent! #2 (2000), A4, 16 pages, B&W art, 90p

cover art by Simon Fraser in tribute to Stanley Kubrick

The Tallyman, art by PJ Holden and script by H Janus

Live Bait - art by PJ Holden and script by Jim Campbell

other strips...

Rahid - by H. Janus & Jim Campbell

Mitch Molotov campus cop - by Phil Nixon & Jim Campbell 

Fashion victims - art by Stuart Giddings; script by David Hailwood

Violent! #3 (2000), 24 pages, B&W art, 90p

cover art by PJ Holden

Live Bait - script by Jim Campbell, pencils by PJ Holden, inks by Patrick O'Connor

Mitch Molotov - Phil Nixon, Jim Campbell & Simon Fraser

The flatworm - script by Jay Eales, art by PJ Holden

other strips...

Rahid - layouts by Mike Siver, script / finished art / letters by Jim Campbell. Created by H. Janus & Jim Campbell.

Ssob - by Alex Smith 

Siege on castle Aldermarsh - art by Mike Donaldson, script by Andrw Lewis

Hell's belles - script by Dave Hailwood, art by Chow

Violent! #1

Thanks to friend of the blog Matthew Bunce I've recently acquired issues 1-6 of Violent! a small press comic from, erm, I'm not precisely sure when as I've not come across any dates on 'em yet. The best I've got is that the Aggro strip has a (c) 1999 on it. So that's the earliest this could date from.

Anyhoo, they were sent to me as they contained some interesting example of artwork by some folks who are now well-known artists.

The total list of credits is as follows...

Cover by Colin MacNeil

The Tallyman - story by H Janus, art by PJ Holden

Rabid - story & art by H Janus, letters by Jim Campbell

Mitch Molotov, campus cop - story & art by Phil Nixon, letters by Jim Campbell

Lowlife - uncredited

Aggro - Simon Fraser 

Anyway, let's have a look at the best of the art...

Cover by Colin MacNeil

List of contributors

Art by Simon Fraser

Art by PJ Holden

Lux & Alby - acme comics

A recent (and as yet unread) acquisition is this series Lux and Alby sign on and save the universe came by my way as an early example of Simon Fraser's artwork.

Check out all other mentions of Simon on the blog here 

Lux & Alby, acme comics, issue 1 (of 9), June 1992

Lux & Alby, acme comics, issue 2 (of 9), July 1992

Lux & Alby, acme comics, issue 3 (of 9), August 1992

Lux & Alby, acme comics, issue 4 (of 9), January 1993

Lux & Alby, acme comics, issue 5 (of 9), April 1993

Lux & Alby, acme comics, issue 6 (of 9), September 1993

Lux & Alby, acme comics, issue 7 (of 9), October 1993

Lux & Alby, acme comics, issue 8 (of 9), November 1993

Lux & Alby, acme comics, issue 9 (of 9), December 1993

Simon Fraser - Paisley student union handbooks

Thanks to friend of the blog Tony Foster for these images of mid-90s University of Paisley student handboooks. Cover artist look familiar? Well that's because it's Simon 'Nikolai Dante' Fraser (his Wikipedia entry is here) - check 'em out here...

University of Paisley students' association handbook 1995/96

University of Paisley students' association handbook 1993/94

update - I've now been told (by Simon Fraser) that this cover was , in fact, drawn by Garry Marshall (https://britishcomics.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Garry_Marshall/Artist)

University of Paisley students' association handbook 1994/95

2003 deck of cards - Bristol comics festival (part 3 of 3)

A while ago I looked at the charity deck of playing cards that Kev Sutherland produced to tie in with the 2001 comics festival he organised in Bristol.

The hearts suit of cards is here
The diamonds suit of cards is here
The clubs suit of cards is here
The spades suit of cards is here

He then repeated the exercise just once more - in 2003 
Part 1 of the 2003 set is here
Part 2 of the 2003 set is here
Part 3 of the 2003 set looks like this...

if you really love this then it's for sale here

SFX magazine - 2000ad playing cards - hearts

And now the Hearts...from the SFX magazine giveaway 2000ad deck of laying cards

Art credits are as follows:
Ace = Kev O'Neill
2 = Clint Langley
3 = Mark Harrison
4 = Greg Staples
5 = Leigh Gallagher
6 = Colin MacNeil
7 = Steve Yeowell
8 = Brendan McCarthy
9 = Ian Gibson
10 = Staz Johnson & David Roach
Jack = Simon Fraser
Queen = Ian Gibson
King = Carlos Ezquerra

Comics 2001 charity deack of cards - Hearts

It was comics creator Kev Sutherland who took the idea of people doing sketches for a convention and, instead of putting them in a convention brochure, put them into a deck of cards. 

With hindsight I wish I'd got both the decks he produced (he did a second set in 2003) but I did get the 2001 edition - here are the hearts from that year...

Note that the 6 of hearts of is by Gary Spencer Millidge (but for some reason his signature didn't scan, hey-ho)