CRIVENS! COMICS & STUFF!

A cascading cornucopia of cool comics, crazy cartoons, & classic collectables - plus other completely captivating & occasionally controversial contents. With nostalgic notions, sentimental sighings, wistful wonderings, remorseful ruminations, melancholy musings, rueful reflections, poignant ponderings, & yearnings for yesteryear. (And a few profound perplexities, puzzling paradoxes, & a bevy of big, beautiful, bedazzling, buxom Babes to round it all off.)

Friday, 24 June 2011

"JUST ONE MORE THING..."

Peter Falk (1927 - 2011) L egendary actor PETER FALK , famous for playing rumpled raincoat-wearing Los Angeles Police Detective ...

MARVEL GREAT GENE COLAN PASSES AWAY...

Gene Colan (1926 - 2011) S ad to learn that MARVEL legend GENE (The Dean) COLAN passed away on June 23rd (yesterday). Who can ...

Saturday, 11 June 2011

21 MOVEABLE PARTS? I HOPE NOT...

Y ou're looking at the design patent of G.I. JOE , first released in 1964 by HASBRO (Hassenfeld Brothers). Look at the il...

Friday, 27 May 2011

The ULTIMATE BEANO SUMMER SPECIAL #1 - NOW ON SALE!

Images copyright D.C. THOMSON & Co., Ltd E xclusive to WH SMITH and on sale now is this colour-packed celebration of 60 years ...

PRESENTING: KID ROBSON'S ARTWORK OMNIBUS - PART ONE...

Pencil drawing of Iron Man #150 cover I received an email recently asking why I didn't feature any of my own art on my blog. Ob...

ARTWORK OMNIBUS - PART TWO...

U nused fanzine cover. For Part Three , click here .

ARTWORK OMNIBUS - PART THREE...

P encil drawing, drawn as a teenager. For Part Four , click here .

ARTWORK OMNIBUS - PART FOUR...

P arody of Amazing Fantasy #15 splash page. For Part Five , click here .

ARTWORK OMNIBUS - PART FIVE...

'U nofficial' Desperate Dan strip. To see black & white copy, click here . For Part Six , click here .

ARTWORK OMNIBUS - PART SIX...

"Yawn! Wonder what kind of day it's going to be, Fred?" C amping cartoon for poster, drawn as a teenager.

ARTWORK OMNIBUS - PART SEVEN...

P hotograph of colour caricature.

ARTWORK OMNIBUS - PART EIGHT...

B lack & white copy of unused colour advertisement.

ARTWORK OMNIBUS - PART NINE...

F anzine masthead.

ARTWORK OMNIBUS - PART TEN...

U npublished pin-up.

ARTWORK OMNIBUS - PART ELEVEN...

P en & acrylic ink caricature.

ARTWORK OMNIBUS - PART TWELVE...

U nfinished caricature at pencil stage.

ARTWORK OMNIBUS - PART THIRTEEN...

C omic strip proposal.

Sunday, 1 May 2011

EVOLUTION OF A COMIC...

F irst there's the 'ashcan' edition, just to secure the copyright... Cover of the ashcan edition of Action Comics Th...

Tuesday, 26 April 2011

A DOG'S BEST FRIEND...

Double act: Lilli and Zac have been inseparable since they were puppies T his sad but heart-warming tale was recently reported in ...

Saturday, 23 April 2011

The WORLD'S GREATEST SUPERHERO...

The mighty Christopher Reeve - gone, but not forgotten I note with interest that some advance reviews of the upcoming THOR m...

Friday, 15 April 2011

The MYSTERY Of The MISSING WILLY...

Willy sets out on his maiden voyage I was wandering through my local JOHN MENZIES (now WH SMITH'S * ) one Winter's day bac...

Thursday, 14 April 2011

CRIKEY! The SUPER SEVEN STRIKE AGAIN...

Art by MIKE LACEY . Copyright REBELLION M any months back, the now defunct CRIKEY! mag ( #12 ) printed an article about Chr...

"THEN THEY MASH THEM ALL TO BITS..."

Oh look - Clint Eastwood's stand-in H ere's a photo of me in 1977 with my new pal - a bendy CADBURY'S SMASH MARTIA...

Wednesday, 13 April 2011

I'VE GOT LETTERS AFTER MY NAME...

Unpublished logo. All lettering on this page by me T he following piece started life as a comment in response to a post on someone...

TIME TRAVEL A REALITY!

Copyright MARVEL COMICS C aught your attention with that title, eh? However, it's not entirely untrue; you may not physically be a...

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