Thursday, 11 November 2010

SUPERMAN Versus MIGHTY MOTH...

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Pencilled, inked & lettered by KID ROBSON H ere's another unseen page from the archives.  This one's 25 years old an...
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Wednesday, 10 November 2010

WILL YOU ALWAYS KEEP A DANDY HANDY?

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A more polished version of Jamie Smart's Desperate Dan A s regular readers will know, there are certain aspects of the new  DAND...
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Tuesday, 9 November 2010

TOYBOX TREASURES Of The PAST: COMET HYDRO PLANE...

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One of the "must-have" toys of the '60s S urely there can't have been a kid in the '60s who didn't have o...
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AND TIME TICKS ON...

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 He's going to have some wait  A nd another quickie.  Basic, but effective.  (Hey, I was working for chips - I wasn...

P-P-PICK UP A - PIZZA?

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T his was an A5 flyer for a local business which I knocked up a few years back (the flyer, not the business).  Of course, when one...

WHO'S A HAPPY CAMPER?

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"Yaaawn! I wonder what kind of day it's going to be, Fred?" H ere's a little amateur cartoon I did back around 1977-...
Monday, 8 November 2010

AND NOW - A NEWSFLASH...

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Image copyright MARVEL COMICS H ey, quick, comics fans - click on this link -  http://www.lettersofnote.com/  - for an interesti...
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Saturday, 6 November 2010

IT'S DESPERATE, DAN...

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Copyright D.C. THOMSON & Co., Ltd I must confess to not being impressed by sections of the new DANDY .  It seems indisputabl...
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NOT A "MATTED MASTERWORK OF MURDEROUS MALIGNANCY" - BUT DEFINITELY A MASTERWORK...

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Images copyright MARVEL COMICS J ust out - the MARVEL MASTERWORKS edition of The MIGHTY THOR Volume 9, featuring the last of  JACK...
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ANYTHING Can HAPPEN In The NEXT HALF HOUR...

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The rubberband version   1 965 was the year I got my rubberband-powered  STINGRAY  by  LONESTAR . There was also a clockwork v...
Friday, 5 November 2010

WHAT'S GOOD And BAD ABOUT The NEW DANDY?

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Copyright D.C. THOMSON & Co., Ltd H ere's what's right with it - full-colour, good paper (though it tends to smudge), som...
Thursday, 4 November 2010

"AN EPIC FOR OUR TIMES"...?

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Images copyright DC COMICS H ere's the cover of JACK KIRBY's  first issue of  NEW GODS , as it appeared back at the...

ADVENTURE In The 21st CENTURY...

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  Agent 21, Fireball XL5, Thunderbirds & Stingray copyright relevant owner(s) A couple of months ago ( here ), I posted ...
Wednesday, 3 November 2010

"ALL HAIL TYRANNUS The MIGHTY!"

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 Neither shaken nor stirred I 've recently received loads of emails (okay - three, to be honest) asking me to show an up...
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Monday, 1 November 2010

NOW - THIS IS WHAT I CALL FUNNY...

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Copyright D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd   I t seems ironic that, in abandoning its DANDY XTREME  incarnation, the new DANDY has bec...
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EVERTHING'S FINE & DANDY - OR IS IT?

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Copyright D.C. THOMSON I t seems that everyone's talking about the new DANDY - but is it any good?  My opinion isn't colo...
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Sunday, 31 October 2010

"THREE WEE WITCHES On The GREEN..."

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  J ust for fun, here are some more frightfully fiendish images suitable for Hallowe'en.  First up, an  AURORA ad ...

BRING On The BAD GUYS...TRICK Or TREAT?

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  "BOO!" H allowe'en - and this cover by JOHN  ROMITA for the  FIRESIDE book,  BRING On The BAD  GUYS , is the perf...
Wednesday, 27 October 2010

FREEDOM Of INFORMATION ACT...

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Inked with a Windsor & Newton #3 sable brush  T his page was pencilled by DOM  REGAN and inked, dialogued and lettered by m...
Monday, 25 October 2010

SO TELL ME, CRIVS... DID YOU EVER WONDER ABOUT SUPERMAN'S "U"?

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Superman #233, featuring Ira Schnapp's logo. (Art by Neal Adams)     S UPERMAN's logo is as iconic as that of ...
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Sunday, 24 October 2010

A COMICS CONTROVERSY - CARE TO COMMENT?

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 SUPERMAN's first issue of his own comic C onsider, if you will, fellow Criv-ites, the following scenario.  A person buys an ...
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ODDS 'N' ENDS...

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M ay I present a few logos I lettered relatively recently?  Everything is done freehand - apart from a ruler for the horizontal pencil g...
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Saturday, 23 October 2010

DO YOU REMEMBER The ILLUSTRATED COMIC JOURNAL?

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Can you name them all? T he accompanying illustration is a scan of a very poor quality colour photocopy taken about fourteen or more...
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Wednesday, 20 October 2010

PRESENTING: A PULSATING PINNACLE Of PRACTICAL PERFECTION PERTAINING To A PROFOUNDLY PERTINENT POWER-PACK PUBLICATION From The PAST, PROUDLY PARADED For YOUR PARTICULARLY PASSIONATE And PERSONAL PERUSAL...

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Pencils by Werner Roth, inks by Dick Ayers, layouts by Jack Kirby   H ere's the comic that was on sale from October 21st ...