Beyond 2000ad @ Orbital comics - v2 - part 2

Final picture from Beyond 2000ad at Orbital comics

Original art...

Judge Dredd features on album cover...

Beyond 2000ad @ Orbital comics - v2 - part 1

Popped back to Orbital comics the other day and noted that they'd made some changes to the display...

Did you ever have one of these?

The wall of 2000ad's 'offspring'

Foreign Dredd and Warrior...

John B Higgins covers - new Eagle (part 2)

and now the 2nd batch of covers...man, he loved Doomlord

This one is initialled, can you see where?

and I'm going to sneak this one in as well...signature craftily hidden, can you spot it?

John B Higgins covers - new Eagle (part 1)

To celebrate John Higgins exhibition 'Beyond Dredd & Watchmen: the Art of John Higgins’ I thought I'd have a look at the covers he produced for the new Eagle

First one is from 1982 and is John's only non-Doomlord cover, can you find his signature? It's beautifully hidden...

Also from 1982

and then from 1987

Bestsellers - other issues

Following on from my post about Bestsellers magazine, here are some covers of other issues




All magazine covers are taken from...
http://www.philsp.com/data/data108.html#COMPLETEBESTSELLERS

Bestsellers magazine - Modesty Blaise - part 4

Modesty and Willie working together...

I guess this is what counts as a happy ending in a Modesty Blaise adventure...

Bestsellers magazine - Modesty Blaise - part 3

No messing here, feel the impact!

Pleasure before business for Willie here...

I love this image of Willie, it's from the start of chapter 16 and reads as follows "...Willie Garvin crouched in the inverted bell, his back braced against one curving side, his legs straddling the double hatch" - you can just feel how confined the space that Willie has to work in. Feels very reminiscent of Denis McLoughlin art.

Bestsellers magazine - Modesty Blaise - part 2

Now some further John M Burns art from Bestsellers magazine...

hmmm, shady Arab ahoy!

Not Willie and Modesty in bed (it has to be said)

Bestsellers magazine - Modesty Blaise - part 1

So here's a copy of Bestsellers magazine from 1983. The idea is simple, reprint a whole book but in a magazine format and with some interior art. The cover here is by Tom Chantrell and the interior art is all by John M. Burns.

Setting the scene and the key characters

This image is actually 'attached' to the prior image to give a landscape picture. I think the lovely lady will turn out to be associated with Willie Garvin rather than the chap who looks a bit like a waiter!

 Typical action shot from John

 More to come tomorrow!

To the death!

An item that is now surplus to requirements...

It's a To the Death poster signed by Simon Furman and Geoff Senior.
More details here...
http://to-the-death.com/

Acquired this at the Orbital comic book Transformers signing that Simon and Geoff did. If you're interested in this then send me a message. Will ship worldwide. Payment by paypal only please.

Stuff and Nonsense comic - issue 3

Issue 3 (of 3) of this obscure comic, published in association with the Children's book foundation.

The front cover sees Steve Parkhouse (yes, really) drawing Bruno Brookes, while the comic itself tries to get to grips with the existentialist question we've all asked ourselves...what does Bruno Brookes do all day?

An unusual ligne claire style comic strip. This is written by Gerard Moncomble, art by Gabrian, colours by Claude Legris and lettered by Annie Parkhouse

John Bolton's art makes a rare appearance in a British comic

And was the winner of the Batman t-shirt competition in issue the Liam Sharp? UPDATE: probably not actually as he would have been 21 at the time

Hockney in Eagle magazine

The recent opening of David Hockney's career retrospective at Tate Britain (http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/exhibition/david-hockney) prompts me to reach for a copy of...

...the biography of ex-Eagle editor Marcus Morris and open it on page 175 to see the work of a young DaviD Hockney shown there...

...Gerald Scarfe was kind enough to sign my book some years ago (I doubt I'll ever be lucky enough to meet Hockney so the page is unsigned).

Rod Stewart in the funny pages

News (http://www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/celebrity-news/rod-stewart-goes-incognito-as-he-rides-london-underground-to-o2-arena-gig-with-wife-penny-lancaster-a3477461.html) that Rod Stewart has been enjoying travelling around London incognito (in between gigging at the O2 in London)...

...will come as no surprise to Striker fans who well remember chairman Stewart's antics on a night out with Nick Jarvis...will he never learn?

Comic artists invade museums in 2017

So we already know about this...
https://www.glasgowlife.org.uk/museums/kelvingrove/exhibitions/Pages/Frank-Quitely-The-Art-of-Comics.aspx#


And then of course there's this...
http://www.visitliverpool.com/whats-on/beyond-dredd-and-watchmen-the-art-of-john-higgins-p407681


And now there's this...from 23rd June
https://www.derbymuseums.org/whats-on/judge-dredd-to-wonder-woman-the-work-of-liam-sharp

What a year to look forward to!

Beyond 2000ad @ Orbital comics - part 5

Final selection from Orbital...

2000ad influenced album covers, bands etc.

2000ad offspring...

2000ad - partwork launched by Hachette (sort of)

Following from their Judge Dredd partwork (https://www.hachettepartworks.com/judge-dredd-the-mega-collection?page=1) Hachette now appear to have had a 'soft launch' of their next title...2000ad the mega collection.

There is a website here
http://www.2000adcollection.com/

And they've launched volume 1 with 'Slaine - The horned God' and are following that up with
Issue 2 - the ballad of Halo Jones
Issue 3 - Shakara - the avenger
Issue 4 - Strontium Dog - the Kreeler conspiracy