UPDATED: Dan Cornwell's work for 2000AD

I first got into Dan Cornwell's art when I first read Rok of the Reds a few years back, I love his art style and was delighted when his work started appearing in 2000AD. I don't read the prog regularly but I pick it up when Dan's work has been it, so I thought I'd try and list out all the issue of the prog / Megazine his work has appeared in - a 'prog slog' if you like. Listing all these out highlighted a couple of issues that I'd missed, gah!

I'm pretty confident that I've listed all his work but if you spot anything I've missed then just shout. 

So then, onwards for the prog slog...


2000AD issue 2045 Judge Dredd - War buds - part 1, art by Dan Cornwell

2000AD issue 2046 Judge Dredd - War buds - part 2, art by Dan Cornwell

2000AD issue 2047 Judge Dredd - War buds - part 3, art by Dan Cornwell

2000AD issue 2048 Judge Dredd - War buds - part 4, art by Dan Cornwell

2000AD issue 2049 Judge Dredd - War buds - part 5, art by Dan Cornwell

2000AD issue 2073 Judge fear - memories are made of this, art by Dan Cornwell

2000AD issue 2081 Judge Dredd - the chosen one, art by Dan Cornwell

2000AD issue 2090 Tharg's terror tale - the ticket, art by Dan Cornwell

2000AD issue 2112 Judge Dredd - the eternity hotel, art by Dan Cornwell

Judge Dredd megazine issue 405 Judge Dredd - planted - part 1, art by Dan Cornwell

Judge Dredd megazine issue 406 Judge Dredd - planted - part 2, art by Dan Cornwell

Judge Dredd megazine issue 413 Judge Dredd - bad wiring, art by Dan Cornwell

2000AD issue 2124 Max Normal - How the Max got his stripes - part 1, art by Dan Cornwell

2000AD issue 2125 Max Normal - How the Max got his stripes - part 2, art by Dan Cornwell

2000AD issue 2126 Max Normal - How the Max got his stripes - part 3, art by Dan Cornwell

2000AD issue 2127 Max Normal - How the Max got his stripes - part 4, art by Dan Cornwell

2000AD issue 2128 Max Normal - How the Max got his stripes - part 5, art by Dan Cornwell

2000AD issue 2129 Max Normal - How the Max got his stripes - part 6, art by Dan Cornwell

2000AD issue 2131 Max Normal - How the Max got his stripes - part 7, art by Dan Cornwell

2000AD issue 2132 Max Normal - How the Max got his stripes - part 8, art by Dan Cornwell

2000AD issue 2133 Max Normal - How the Max got his stripes - part 9, art by Dan Cornwell

2000AD issue 2134 Max Normal - How the Max got his stripes - part 10, art by Dan Cornwell

2000AD issue 2163 Judge Dredd - kill Bloopy - part 1, art by Dan Cornwell

2000AD issue 2164 Judge Dredd - kill Bloopy - part 2, art by Dan Cornwell

2000AD issue 2163 Judge Dredd - kill Bloopy - part 3, art by Dan Cornwell

2000AD issue 2164 Judge Dredd - kill Bloopy - part 4, art by Dan Cornwell

2000AD issue 2184 Judge Dredd pin-up art by Dan Cornwell

As Dan himself said on Twitter today...

Prog 2184 with a Star Scan of Judge Dredd by me. First painting in 10 years+. Acrylic on board. Should have used a less textured one. Learning curve

2000AD sci-fi special 2020

As Dan himself said on Facebook today...
Just noticed I have a pinup in the 2000AD Sci-Fi Special. Here's the original inks. The original is on a wall in Houston TX and was part of a twin commission for a birthday

(the actual pin-up in the special is coloured)

Judge Dredd - Cold Wars (contains reprint of War buds)

All that art, all those progs and still yet to do a cover for the Galaxy's Great Comic - the campaign starts here

Cheers for all the great artwork Dan

You can follow Dan on social media @dancornwellart

Cereal box art - The Lone Ranger by Frank Hampson

My recent interest (obsession?) with comics material featured in association with breakfast cereals covered quite a lot of ground in the end. If you missed it - here's what I looked at..
1). Shreddieboy by Don Lawrence here
2). Shreddieboy by Ron Embleton here
3). Shreddieboy episode 3 here
4). Shreddies illustrated - Agadir here
5). Shreddies illustrated - Shanhai'd in Hong Kong here
6). Shreddies illustrated - Rocket spy here 
7). Shreddies illustrated - Safari here
8). 'Match the pairs' - here 
9). Shreddieboy - the final adventures here


So I thought I should wrap up by highlighting 2 images that Peter Hampson has shared on the website (here) he runs dedicated to his father's art...Peter notes (here) that the art appeared on the back on the cereal packet...   

all material is (c) Peter Hampson

Asterix odds and ends

Having recently been on 'The never iron anything' podcast talking about Asterix I thought I'd fish out a couple of odds and ends associated with my chat with Tony...

You can find the episode here

First up is the one pager from 'Asterix and the class act' that Tony mentioned...

And then I stumbled across these 2 pages from the book 'A carrot for Iznogoud'...so it's a crossover from Asterix - art is by Tabary (who didn't draw Asterix) but the story is by Goscinny (who did write Asterix)...

Iznogoud comic - 1996

An oddity from 1996 then...it's the Iznogoud comic. For more details of Iznogoud why not checkout his wikipedia entry here?
Art is by Goscinny (the man who drew Asterix - and much else besides). This was just a 3 issue run and is hard to get hold of.

Phoneix Press? Not come across them before - they printed at least one other title - Phantom 2040 - as well as a VR Troopers 3D comic but not sure what else. If you have any ideas, just let me know. 

Phantom 2040 was a 4 issue mini-series printed (in the USA) in 1995 and re-imagined the legendary Phantom character (created by Lee Falk) in, I'm guessing, the year 2040.

Izngoud comic - issue 1, March 1996, published by Phoenix Press Limited

Stories are as follows
Kissmet [previously published in The wicked wiles of Iznogoud]
Mesmer-Eyesed [previously published in The wicked wiles of Iznogoud]
The occidental philtre [previously published in The wicked wiles of Iznogoud]
The time machine [previously published in The wicked wiles of Iznogoud]


Izngoud comic - issue 2, April 1996, published by Phoenix Press Limited

image care of 
http://www.eurocomics.info/iznogoud.html

Stories are as follows
The magic carpet [previously published in Iznogoud and the magic carpet]
The tiger hunt [previously published in Iznogoud and the magic carpet]
The box of souvenirs [previously published in Iznogoud and the magic carpet]


Izngoud comic - issue 3, May 1996, published by Phoenix Press Limited

Stories are as follows
The picnic  [previously published in The wicked wiles of Iznogoud]
Chop and change [previously published in The wicked wiles of Iznogoud]
Incognito [previously published in Iznogoud and the magic carpet]

Manta Force - Marvel UK, new Eagle & Ian Kennedy

A recent, and much sought-after title, finally arrives at blog towers...yes it's the very scarce Manta Force Winter special from Marvel UK - published in 1989

Page two brings everyone up to date on what's going on here...

Page 3 - but first page (of 8) the first strip in the comic 

Page 4 - but second page (of 8) the first strip in the comic

Gary Frank has confirmed (see below) that he was the artist on the (above) strip...

The 2nd strip in the comic is a 4 page strip by Ian Kennedy... 

...which had previously appeared in this 8 page comic from 1987/88...

...which was the era when Manta Force started appearing in New Eagle (it ran from issue 285-305, so 21 issues dated 05/09/87-23/01/88) where the art in issues 286-305 was illustrated by Mike Dorey, but Ian Kennedy drew the first episode...

...and this was his only Manta Force cover, #294 (07/11/87)...

...Mike Dorey drew just the one Manta Force cover - #303, dated 09/01/88

So, in conclusion, you had a comic tie-in series in 1987/88 in new Eagle (presumably when the marketing push for Manta Force was at its peak) and then a year later Marvel UK produce a one-off comic which features a reprint comic from a year ago in it. Odd. I can only assume that the hey-day of Manta Force had passed and Marvel UK could see that sales were poor (maybe why the comic is so hard to find these days) and an ongoing series wasn't warranted.