CRIVENS! COMICS & STUFF!: DON STARR IN "THE LIVING DOLLS"

Saturday 21 June 2014

DON STARR IN "THE LIVING DOLLS" - PART THREE...

Ready and eager to embark on the next instalment of TERRIFIC's DON STARR adventure? Good, 'cos here it is. I haven't yet located my POWER COMICS INDEX to find out the name of the artist on this series, so, if you know, feel free to share it with your fellow Criv-ites. As far as I know it wasn't a reprint, but it was certainly prepared for a more traditional sized British comic because it shows evidence of re-sizing to fit Terrific's page dimensions.

However, I'm sure that's neither here nor there and will bother you not a jot. Enjoy!

6 comments:

John Pitt said...: I can't actually remember these strips. I think that I must have skipped past them.; 22 June 2014 at 16:57
Kid said...: Well, JP - the joy of discovery is now yours, and I'll bet it's just as though you're back in 1967, eh?; 22 June 2014 at 17:58
John Pitt said...: It sure is! - I used to pick up all 5 Power comics early Sat. afternoon after the 2 hour morning session at the swimming baths. I would always read the Marvel & Batman stories first , then work my way through the rest afterwards. I guess some times there were some strips I never got round to. Which is why it's so good to get them back!; 22 June 2014 at 21:16
Kid said...: Of course, it could be that with all that Marvel Madness, JP, you read The Living Dolls, but they just didn't make the same impression and you forgot the strip over time.; 22 June 2014 at 21:24
John Pitt said...: NOW it's starting to seem familiar!; 6 July 2014 at 23:35
Kid said...: Helps when you see it in the proper sequence, eh?; 7 July 2014 at 01:39

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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