CRIVENS! COMICS & STUFF!: MONSTER FUN ANNUAL

Saturday, 1 March 2014

MONSTER FUN ANNUAL - MINI COVER GALLERY...

Way back in 1976 and '77, I bought the MONSTER FUN Annuals for '77 & '78, but for some curious reason never bought the one for '79. I say curious because I always try to buy at least the first three issues of any new comic or Annual, so how the third MF book escaped my clutches I can't quite say. I recently remedied that when I managed to obtain one 36 years down the line, so here they are in a mini cover gallery, along with the Annual for 1984 for good measure. Hope you enjoy them.

4 comments:

Unknown said...: The 1979 annual cover is fantastic one of the best annual covers I have seen - it wouldn't have been out of place in the 60s (1978's is very funny as well) are they all by Robert Nixon ?; 2 March 2014 at 11:39
Kid said...: The first three are by Nixon, McScotty. The '84 one looks as if it might be by Mike Lacey.; 2 March 2014 at 11:44
George Shiers said...: I'm sure you're probably aware of this Kid, but Irmantas over at Kazoop is starting a series on Monster Fun comic:

http://kazoop.blogspot.co.nz; 2 March 2014 at 18:49
Kid said...: Thanks, George. Yes, I was aware of it and will be no doubt enjoy it, as I do with all Irmantas's posts. Incidentally, I wasn't jumping on the bandwagon - I showed the Annual covers merely because I managed to acquire the third one a few days ago.; 2 March 2014 at 19:13

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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