CRIVENS! COMICS & STUFF!: BARRY & BOING

Saturday, 31 January 2015

BARRY & BOING - THEY'RE A KNOCKOUT...

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In answer to a request (and if you have one consisting of two words, the second of which is 'off', well, don't be so bloody cheeky), here's an eight-page BARRY & BOING adventure from the KNOCKOUT Annual for 1973. No point saying much more as there's a recap of the first tale in the page above. I'm lucky enough to own every issue of the weekly comic, so when I can find them, who knows - perhaps I'll post some more. Be sure to let me know if that's something you'd like to see, O faithful, canny, and cavortin' Criv-ites.

And here's the cover so that you know what to look for.

8 comments:

John Pitt said...: I used to have a friend called Boing!; 31 January 2015 at 22:01
John Pitt said...: Oh now, hold on a minute, it was BARRY!; 31 January 2015 at 22:03
Kid said...: I used to have a friend.; 31 January 2015 at 22:06
Kid said...: Oh now, hold on a minute, he was IMAGINARY.; 31 January 2015 at 22:07
Dougie said...: Tracked it down at last. Boing isn't quite as pathetic and miserable as I remember. I enjoyed that strip very much.; 8 July 2015 at 14:43
Kid said...: See? This blog's good for something after all.; 8 July 2015 at 20:35
SteveJailbirdMatt said...: Great stuff! Barry & Boing will be included in my Knockout article for Infinity in April. Don't miss it!; 26 February 2022 at 10:22
Kid said...: And where will I find Infinity - and beyond?; 26 February 2022 at 10:24

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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