Neil Gaiman and Colleen Doran: Chivalry

The Guardian have announced a talk with Neil Gaiman and colleen Doran talking about their new title Chivalry. Tickets are available here and the details are as follows...

Wednesday 23 March 2022, 8pm–9pm GMT
£7 plus £0.87 booking fee
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This ticket will give you access to the livestream event and the on-demand recording which will be available in the days following.

Award-winning writer and illustrator duo Neil Gaiman and Colleen Doran will introduce their new graphic novel, Chivalry.

Chivalry is an adaptation of a short story by Neil Gaiman, in which an elderly widow, Mrs Whitaker, unknowingly buys the Holy Grail in a charity shop - an event that launches her into an epic world of adventure with a handsome young knight who goes by the name of Galaad. In a collaboration that brings to life illustrative styles from the Golden Age, and taking influence from the Illuminated Manuscripts, Chivalry is a charming and witty tale about taking risks, and finding friendship in unlikely places.

Gaiman is the creator of over 30 books for adults and children, including internationally-acclaimed bestsellers Coraline and Stardust, and American Gods. He wrote Good Omens with Terry Pratchett, which he recently adapted for a TV miniseries.

Colleen Doran is a cartoonist, illustrator and writer who has produced work for Marvel, DC Comics and many others; including illustrations for Stan Lee’s autobiography, Amazing Fantastic Incredible.

Gaiman and Doran have worked together previously on American Gods, The Sandman, Lucifer and the Eisner-winning Snow, Glass, Apples. They will talk to Claire Armitstead about their new work, the art of the graphic novel, and their many collaborations. They will also be answering your questions in this livestreamed event.

Running time: 60 minutes

This event will be hosted on a third-party live streaming platform. You will receive a link to join the event in the week prior to the event.

Closed captions will be available for this event.

If you live in the United Kingdom, you can purchase a ticket with a copy of Chivalry at checkout for a special combined price of £19 (RRP £14.99). Books will be dispatched on publication date, 2nd March 2022.

This event is being streamed globally.

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If you are unable to join at the time of streaming, this event will be available to watch on demand in the days following. A link to the recording will be sent to all ticket holders.

All other mentions of Neil on this blog can be found here

CB News

I looked (here) at the CB-radio comic 10-4 action. In fact the comic was a spin-off from CB news magazine. There's no comics contents in CB news but the cover artist(s) would go on to draw covers for 10-4 action.

So here's part 1 of my covers guide to CB news - come back soon for part 2!

CB news issue #1 (1980)

CB news issue #2 (1980)

CB news issue #3 (January 1981)

CB news issue #4 (February 1981)

CB news issue #5 (March 1981)

CB news issue #6 (April 1981)

cover image not to hand - can you help?

UPDATED: Gargoyles - Titan comics

I've looked before at comics from Titan comics (here) and I wanted to look at another title I know very little about. Gargoyles ran in 1996/7 for, I think, 9 issues (see below for more details). 

So, without further ado, here's my covers gallery. As ever, there are a few (!) gaps so if you can help out do let me know.

New addition to this post is the addition of the issue #2 cover

Gargoyles comic, Titan comics, issue 1, November 1996

Gargoyles comic, Titan comics, issue 2, December 1996

Here's an advert for issue #2 (from the pages of Jonny Quest - the real adventures)

Gargoyles comic, Titan comics, issue 3, January 1997 [on the right-hand side]

Gargoyles comic, Titan comics, issue 4, February 1997 [on the left-hand side]

Gargoyles comic, Titan comics, issue 5, March 1997

image not to hand - can you help?

Gargoyles comic, Titan comics, issue 6, April 1997

Gargoyles comic, Titan comics, issue 7, May 1997

image not to hand - can you help?

Gargoyles comic, Titan comics, issue 8, June 1997

image not to hand - can you help?

Gargoyles comic, Titan comics, issue 9, July 1997

image not to hand - can you help?

Gargoyles comic, Titan comics, issue 10, August 1997

image not to hand - can you help?

I note that in issue #82 (June 1997) of Comics International lists issue #10 in the 'Advance listings' section but in issue #83 (July 1997) Gargoyles is listed as cancelled. I'm therefore assuming it could run until issue 10 but, of course, just because a title has been solicited doesn't mean it's been printed.

Donkey Kong jungle action special

I recently became aware of this Fleetway produced Donkey Kong jungle action special comic (from 1995). I don't (yet!) own a copy so I've had to have a quick Google to see what I can find out about it...

The best resource I can find about the comic is here. More details once I get hold of a copy but the wiki credits Nigel Kitching as the artist, John Moore as the artists and Tom Frame & Ellie De Ville as the letterers.

The world of Tony Weare exhibition, 1990

I looked here at some letters that comics illustrator par excellence Tony Weare sent at the start of his working career. A search on ebay has also turned up this picture from his September 1990 exhibition (at the Newlyn art gallery in Penzance) entitled - "The world of Tony Weare"

This piece (originally painted in 1988) is entitled Open Air market II and it was for sale for £500. It's currently on sale on ebay (here) for just £330. This was painting number 2 in the exhibition.

Catawiki original comic art auction - ends Thur 17 Feb 2022

Bidding on this auction closes tonight - good lick if you're bidding

The latest Catawiki auction is open for business - here (as ever) are the original (British) comic art highlights...

This Bill Lacey page from The man who searched for fear (1964)

This Leslie Otway page from Princess (1965)

This Edward Kearon page of Robot Archie (Lion, 1966)

This Down Lawrence Trigan Empire page from (1967) story 'Revolution in Zabriz'

Powerman #17 - Gibbons, Bradbury & Ezquerra

I've looked at Powerman before (here) and I've tried to gather all the images I can find of this rare Nigerian comic by Brian Bolland and Dave Gibbons.

Brian recently posted up just the covers of his Powerman comics so I'm going to collate just the covers here (and hopefully at some point I'll be add further detail to the post, but for now it's just the cover)

Previously we've looked at...
a) issue 5 is here

b). issue 6 is here

c). issue 7 is here

d). issue 8 is here

e). issue 9 is here

f). issue 10 is here

g). issue 11 is here

h). issue 12 is here

i). issue 13 is here

j). issue 15 is here

k). issue 16 is here

l). issue 18 is here

m). issue 19 is here

n). issue 20 is here

o). issue 21 is here 

p). issue 23 is here [cover only]
q). issue 26 is here 
r). issue 27 is here [cover only]
s). issue 29 is here [cover only]

t). issue 30 is here 

u). issue 31 is here [cover only]

v). issue 32 is here [cover only]

and now it's the turn of issue 17...

Powerman art by Dave Gibbons

The black star - art by Eric Bradbury

War stroy - art by Carlos Ezquerra

Political Cartoon Society newsletters - part 5

Having looked here at my collection of the Cartoon Museum newsletters I thought I'd follow that up with a look at something similar from the Political Cartoon Society. I was a member of the society from 2001-7 and I'll be looking at the newsletters they issued in that time, the newsletters may continue to this day who knows?

Part 1 (2001+2) was here

Part 2 (2003) was here

Part 3 (2004) was here

Part 4 (2005) was here

Part 5 (2006+7) is below 

Political Cartoon Society newsletter Spring 2006

8 pages, A4, colour covers

Peter Brookes interview

Hitler's cartoon collecting

Political Cartoon Society newsletter Autumn 2006

8 pages, A4, colour covers

Kevin 'Kal' Kallaugher interview

book reviews

Political Cartoon Society newsletter Winter 2006

8 pages, A4, colour covers

Gerald Scarfe interview

book review

Martin Rowson on "Why George is gorgeous!"

Political Cartoon Society newsletter Winter 2007

I'm sure there must have been other issues in 2007 but this is the only newsletter that I've retained

8 pages, A4, colour covers

Peter Schrank interview

The political cartoons of Jimmy Friell

UPDATED: Dolphin comic

I've looked plenty of times before at advertising comics (check out this link) to see them all, but today's example is a new one on me.

I've updated text in red...

An interesting lot (and a lot that's attracting a lot of interest) in the latest phil-comics auction here is this very smart looking comic magazine produced by a department store in Letchworth in the late 1950s.

The lot  is a dozen issues...

volume 4, #6 (1958)

volume 6, #10 & 12 (1958)

volume 7, #4, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12 (1959)

volume 8, #1, 2, 4 (1960)

"Specially produced for the young friends of Foster and Scott, Letchworth". Foster and Scott were a menswear and boys school uniform shop in Letchworth Garden City, Hertfordshire.

This strip looks, to me, like it was drawn by a young Ron Embleton - what do you think?

At the time of typing bids had reached £99 but I reckon it'll go higher than that. Collecting a full set of these seems impossible now but the level of interest in these indicates to me that there's some good stuff in these. Good luck if you bid!

UPDATE: I've now found some more images and these clearly show a different retailer on the front cover. I assume therefore it was a magazine that retailers could purchase and then amend 'personalise' with their own stamp / branding in some way. These 2 comics are for sale for £40 here

John Freeman has told me that the publisher was Nine-Star Press Ltd, 359 Edgware Road, London, W2. Printed by A.M. Archer & Co. Ltd, Slough. There was also a club you could join.

Lew Stringer looked, a little, at Nine-Star Press here

Mike O'Doherty has let me know that Dolphin also contained art by Don Lawrence...

and here's the original art...

More pages...

More original art of those pages...

Mike tells me that renowned Don Lawrence expert Rob Van Bavel has identified these pages as by Don Lawrence himself! I can't see it myself but if Rob says it...

Here's a page by page look at volume 9, issue 5 - no sign of any work by Don Lawrence or Ron Embleton!