CRIVENS! COMICS & STUFF!: CRIVEN'S CLASSIC CHRISTMAS COMIC COVERS...

Wednesday, 23 December 2015

CRIVEN'S CLASSIC CHRISTMAS COMIC COVERS...

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Two for the price of one this time around, chums! That's because, although CAPTAIN BRITAIN #12 (above) was the 'Christmas issue' (it went on sale on December 22nd), the one I associate with the season is #10 (below) - mainly because the snow lay 'round about (deep and crisp and even - which, incidentally, is just the way Good King Wenceslas likes his pizzas) on the day I bought it.

The snow may still have been around when I bought #12, but to be honest, I no longer recall. The cover of #10 just seemed to make more of an impression on me for some odd reason. I'm gob-smacked at the realization that these comics are 39 years old. It seems like only yesterday when I first purchased them. Ooh, scary!

4 comments:

Anonymous said...: And the back of the festive issue had that picture of CB surrounded by all the other Marvel characters including an ape because POTA was still around (just). 1976 was probably my favourite childhood Christmas (I was 10 at the time) - Captain Britain was still good before he started going downhill in '77 (that long, dreary Red Skull story and the weekly going black & white etc) - also Christmas '76 was when I first saw King Kong on TV and the original 1936 Flash Gordon serial and a season of Johnny Weismuller Tarzan films. I missed the first two episodes of Flash Gordon and 'Tarzan's New York Adventure' because they were shown on the morning of December 20th which was the last day of school - I still haven't seen that Tarzan film to this day.; 23 December 2015 at 13:47
Kid said...: I've got it on DVD, CJ. (Evil cackle!) Yes, I really have.; 23 December 2015 at 13:56
Phil said...: Ah the convoluted saga of Brian Braddock's sister. I know I posted a link about her history but honestly since I didn't read it in the comics myself I don't really understand it. I used to colour the black and white pages of the comic with my pencils .....; 24 December 2015 at 05:46
Kid said...: Sacrilege, Phil. Almost as bad as me cutting pictures out of my comics when I was younger. As for Betsy Braddock, I think I'd stopped reading the stories by then, so I haven't got a scooby about what's going on with her.; 24 December 2015 at 06:21

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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