CRIVENS! COMICS & STUFF!: ROLL UP! ROLL UP! STARBURST COVER GALLERY

Friday, 21 February 2014

ROLL UP! ROLL UP! STARBURST COVER GALLERY - PART THREE...

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Another half-dozen STARBURST covers completes the first couple or so years of a magazine started by British comics guru DEZ SKINN in 1978. Issue #20 was the last one that Dez was officially involved with before leaving for pastures new in pursuit of other projects.

I'll feature further covers from sporadically-purchased later issues as I find them, so keep your peepers peeled for future posts.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...: Caroline Munro. Man o' man. Nuff said.; 21 February 2014 at 23:56
Kid said...: Seconded.; 22 February 2014 at 00:09
Staz Johnson said...: Issue #24 with the Caroline Munro cover was my first issue of Starburst. I remember seeing the very first issue on sale but remarking to my friends that it was a rip-off mag that was just trying to cash in on Star War's success, & as a result never really gave it a second glance in the newsagent's, prefering instead to stick with my Marvel UK's Star Wars Weekly. Eventually I surcumed however, though surprisingly it wasn't the lovely Ms. Munro that make me part with my hard earned pocket money, but the promise of an interview with Mark Hamill! Oh the joy of innocent youth.; 22 February 2014 at 12:50
Kid said...: Amazing to think the mag's still being published today. Staz. I recognised Jon Brosnan's name from his book, James Bond in the Cinema, not realising I'd be lettering his scripts for 2000 A.D. quite a few years later.; 22 February 2014 at 17:21
John Pitt said...: Can't remember which was the first ish I discovered , but we haven't come to it yet. Did you ever get Starlog as well?; 23 February 2014 at 15:41
Kid said...: I'm bound to have the odd ish, JP, but probably not from this period.; 23 February 2014 at 16:04

About the artist:

From 1985 to 2000 A.D. (little joke there), I contributed to a variety of high profile comics and magazines for various companies.

For IPC/FLEETWAY/EGMONT, I freelanced as a lettering and logo artist on various weekly comics and monthly magazines, and also as a resize comic artist and spot illustrator on pocket books, summer specials and annuals.

For MARVEL U.K., BLACK LIBRARY, REDAN and USBORNE BOOKS, I again freelanced as a lettering artist, also working as a restoration artist for MARVEL U.S., restoring and re-creating certain pages of JACK KIRBY art for their MARVEL MASTERWORKS editions.

I also lettered the MARVELMAN sample pages submitted to MARVEL U.S. when they were considering acquiring the character, which - as we all now know - they DID.

Supplied comic strips, cartoons and illustrated advertisements for local business campaigns and newspaper publication on a professional basis since the age of 16. Did my first paid art job for publication at 14 or 15 for Lanarkshire Education Board.

Have also made TV appearances as a collector of memorabilia.

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Just some of the titles I worked on are:

2000 A.D. * JUDGE DREDD MEGAZINE * DICEMAN * SONIC The COMIC * JUDGE DREDD, LAWMAN Of The FUTURE * CRISIS * REVOLVER * EAGLE * TIGER * BATTLE ACTION-FORCE * BUSTER * WHIZZER & CHIPS * WHOOPEE * NIPPER * SCHOOL FUN * ACE VENTURA, PET DETECTIVE * The REAL GHOSTBUSTERS * DOCTOR WHO MAGAZINE * COUNT DUCKULA * RUGRATS * The TRANSFORMERS * DEATH'S HEAD * THUNDERCATS * GALAXY RANGERS * DRAGON'S CLAWS * SINDY * MARVEL MASTERWORKS * The TROLLS * LOADED * INFERNO * WARHAMMER * ROSE BLACK.

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