Heroes! The British invasion of American comics - part 11

Recently (ish!) finished at the Cartoon Museum (here) was their exhibition 'Heroes! The British invasion of American comics'. 

For anyone who couldn't make it here's part 11 of my look at what you missed...

Part 1 was here

Part 2 was here

Part 3 was here

Part 4 was here

Part 5 was here

Part 6 was here

Part 7 was here

Part 8 was here

Part 9 was here

Part 10 was here

Aces Weekly - LFCC 2013

As I'm off to London comic con today I thought I'd highlight this Aces Weekly ashcan comic from 2013 - which, as you'll see from the cover, was an LFCC 2013 exclusive. 16 pages in total, A5 sized. Good luck tracking one of these down.

Cover is by David Hitchcock, interior art is contributed by David Lloyd, David Hitchcock, Ben Dickson, Gavin Mitchell, Bambos Georgiou, Mychailo Kazybird, Yishan Li, Shaky Kane, David Hine, Steve Marchant, John McCrea, Phil Hester, Stephen Baskerville, Martin Griffiths, John Kaine, Kev Hopgood, Ferg Handley, Chris Geary.

My copy is signed by David Lloyd, Stephen Baskerville and Bambos Georgiou

2003 deck of cards - Bristol comics festival (part 2 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 is here
Part 2 of the 2003 set looks like this...

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

Art quarterly spotlights the Cartoon Musuem

The Spring 2019 issue of Art Quarterly, the quarterly magazine for members of the Art Fund charity, (website here) is now out and contains a focus on comics.

Established over 100 years ago as a sort of Victorian crowd-funding organisation Art Fund helps give grants to help museums do more...from buying works of art and sharing them across the UK, to providing funding and opportunities for curators. 

In this issue, to celebrate the April opening of the new London home of the Cartoon Museum, Steve Marchant and Becky Jefcoate select five of the works that they been able to acquire for the museum's Lottery-funded 'Comic Creators' project (details here). 

Martin Rowson - well-known cartoonist and trustee of the Cartoon Museum - also chooses a piece from the project...