CRIVENS! COMICS & STUFF!: COMIX BOOK COVER GALLERY...

Sunday, 15 February 2015

COMIX BOOK COVER GALLERY...

No point getting bogged down with boring detail. Suffice to say that COMIX BOOK was a 1970s attempt at an underground-style mag, the first three of its five issue run being published by MARVEL COMICS. (The final two by KITCHEN SINK.) Well, this post "does what it says on the tin", so here are those five covers, along with some bonus pics which you might not have seen before. In fact, you may never even have seen all five covers before either, so aren't you glad you popped in? (Okay, who's the wise-guy who said no?)

For some pics of the contents of issue #1, click here.

Cover rough for #1

Alternative cover rough for #1 by Peter Poplaski

Rejected cover for #1 by Peter Poplaski

Rejected cover idea for #3 by William Stout

Rejected cover for #5

2 comments:

John Pitt said...: Comix kind of passed me by in the 70's. A mate had a few, which I did read. He used to get them from a boutique, where they were near the door on a spinner rack. But in the same arcade was a secondhand comic shop and secondhand record shop and, after visiting both establishments, I never had any money left to try something new.
In recent times I have researched comic to see what I missed and there are some spectacular covers!
And, I am hugely fond of ALL of Robert Crumb's art now!; 16 February 2015 at 21:11
Kid said...: Funny thing is, not only was #1 the only one I had, it was also the only one I ever saw - at least, as far as I remember.; 16 February 2015 at 23:28

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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