CRIVENS! COMICS & STUFF!: PART EIGHT OF CADET DALEKS SWEET CIGARETTE CARDS FROM THE '60s...

Monday, 17 March 2014

PART EIGHT OF CADET DALEKS SWEET CIGARETTE CARDS FROM THE '60s...

Those who have been following this occasional series will be glad to see another five cards, and to learn that there are only ten more to go to complete the set. Just think - that's only two more instalments until you can view all fifty cards in their entirety. (If you've saved the previous ones, that is.)

And, as an added extra, the final part will also include one of the boxes that the cards came in. Unfortunately, you'll have to provide your own sweet cigarettes. Still, can't have everything, eh?

6 comments:

Anonymous said...: Wasn't it ridiculous that they stopped making sweet cigarettes in case they encouraged kids to smoke - by the same logic wine gums must encourage kids to drink ! I've never smoked a cigarette in my life but it's so hypocritical to attack smokers all the time. Only this morning I saw a discarded packet of ciggies that said on the front: "smoking harms you and others around you" - WELL SO DOES ALCOHOL !!! Why aren't bottles of booze required to carry health warnings too ?; 17 March 2014 at 14:38
Kid said...: I also have never smoked - or touched alcohol. Personally, I think the Yanks gave up too soon on prohibition - they should have atuck at it. (And we should've followed suit.); 17 March 2014 at 14:47
John Pitt said...: And if you could only get hold of one of the shop boxes the packets came in...
Got to be the Holy Grail!; 17 March 2014 at 21:27
Kid said...: It's certainly worth a 'packet', JP. (See what I did there?); 17 March 2014 at 22:05
Anonymous said...: Kid, the problem with prohibition is that it was a massive boost for organized crime - as is the banning of drugs now. I do drink myself ( in moderation) but I think alcohol is a far bigger menace to society than smoking but it's smokers that get demonised.; 17 March 2014 at 22:53
Kid said...: And it was still a massive boost for organised crime once it was legal, Col - but with no repercussions. It merely gave criminal overlords a 'legitimate' means by which to launder money from other dodgy enterprises. The best way to deal with crime is to crush it, not legalise it - as is all too often the case these days. But hark at me - on my soapbox again. No wonder people prefer Stan's.; 18 March 2014 at 00:15

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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