London cartoon centre benefit comic - "Cash"

Here's a bit of London comics history for you..."Cash" a benefit comic for the London Cartoon Centre. As this is #1, I'm guessing either there were 2 more issues or there were 2 other one-off comics. Any information welcomed.

True life stories - channel 4

Here's an intriguing item spotted on ebay recently...

This is an 8-page promotion for Channel 4's Spring 2001 programmes.  Printed on heavy card paper it was stapled into one of the Sunday newspaper colour supplements.  Each programme is presented as a one-page comic strip.

John Cooper on art duties for 'Kevin Keegan'

Woodrow Phoenix on art duties for '57 screaming kids'

Xtina Lamb on art duties for 'Tina takes a break'

Kev Hopgood on art duties for 'Gladiatrix'

John Cooper on art duties for 'Drinking girls'

Chrisopher Kasch on 'The secret rulers of the world'

UPDATED: Max Overload issue 2

Previously I've looked at Max Overload (1994, from the relatively short-lived publisher imprint Dark Horse International) - the 2nd issues, dated April 1994, has now arrived. There is no 3rd issue - due, according to this link, to Dark Horse International going bust in 1994.

Anyway, good luck tracking down this rare comic & gaming magazine mash-up...it's got 32 pages of comics content in a 64 page magazine so that's a pretty good ratio as far as I'm concerned.

Woodrow Phoenix draws the cover

Lemmings - art by Graham Manley, script by Dick Hansom [8 pages]

Toejam & Earl - art by Woodrow Phoenix, script by Anne Caulfield [8 pages]

Chuck rock - art by David Lyttleton, script by Cefn Ridout [8 pages]

Greendog - jaws, claws and dinosaurs - art by Ilya, script by Ian Carney [8 pages]

And here's the day when a camera crew turned up for filming...Anne Caulfield and Woodrow Phoenix looking very relaxed there...

Here's the back page advert for issue #3 - cover at by David Lyttleton

Woodrow was kind enough to respond (on Twitter) to my tweet about this, so I've screen-grabbed what he had to say about it...

Max Overload issue 2

Previously I've looked at Max Overload (1994, from the relatively short-lived publisher imprint Dark Horse International) - the 2nd issues, dated April 1994, has now arrived. There is no 3rd issue - due, according to this link, to Dark Horse International going bust in 1994.

Anyway, good luck tracking down this rare comic & gaming magazine mash-up...it's got 32 pages of comics content in a 64 page magazine so that's a pretty good ratio as far as I'm concerned.

Woodrow Phoenix draws the cover

Lemmings - art by Graham Manley, script by Dick Hansom [8 pages]

Toejam & Earl - art by Woodrow Phoenix, script by Anne Caulfield [8 pages]

Chuck rock - art by David Lyttleton, script by Cefn Ridout [8 pages]

Greendog - jaws, claws and dinosaurs - art by Ilya, script by Ian Carney [8 pages]

And here's the day when a camera crew turned up for filming...Anne Caulfield and Woodrow Phoenix looking very relaxed there...

Here's the back page advert for issue #3 - cover at by David Lyttleton

Max Overload! from Dark Horse comics

To me Max Overload! was a completely unknown entity until quite recently when I started listening to the Sonic the Comic podcast. In one of the early 'pods' this magazine got a shout out so I went off to track it down...

First up, while it's produced by a comics company (Dark Horse) this isn't a comic, it's a games magazine. However it has got a lot more comics content then you'd expect to see in such a magazine. Anyway, let's see what's in it...

Cover by Dave Pether 

Some lovely photos of our contributors

Greendog - jaws, claws and dinosaurs - art by Ilya, script by Ian Carney

Chuck rock - art by David Lyttleton, script by Cefn Ridout 

Toejam & Earl - art by Woodrow Phoenix, script by Anne Caulfield

Lemmings - art by Graham Manley, script by Dick Hansom

Back over

well there was an issue 2 but it seems even harder to track down than issue 1 - there wasn't a 3rd issue.
 

UKCAC programmes - part 3 (of 3)

I've recently look at a lot at the various programmes produced to tie-in with various comic conventions...

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
UKCAC - part 1 - is here
UKCAC - part 2 - is here

BICS convention is here

Today it's the final part of my look at that long running comic convention, the United Kingdom Comic Art Convention (UKCAC) - these are the best and longest programmes you can track down

UKCAC programme 1995, A4 sized, 84 pages, Duncan Fegredo cover

UKCAC programme 1996, A4 sized, 72 pages, Bryan Talbot cover

UKCAC programme 1997, A4 sized, 84 pages, Frank Quitely cover

UKCAC programme 1998, A4 sized, 72 pages, Woodrow Phoenix cover

Ravette (4) - Sonic the hedgehog

Sonic volume 2, subtitled "Spin Attack"

is based on the cover for issue 1

4 stories in this volume are as follows:

1). Attack on the death egg (reprinted from issue 6)

2). The origin of Sonic (reprinted from issue 8)

3). Back to reality (reprinted from issue 9)

4). Megatox (reprinted from issue 10)

Creators involved in this issue include:  Mark Millar, Woodrow Phoenix, Ed Hillyer, Tom Frame and  Jose Casanovas