Woolley Jumper #15

 

NEXT TIME- MORE THINGS...

Fifty Years Ago Part Fifteen

The innocent summer of 1977.

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Fifty Years Ago Part Fourteen

That tent was in service until at least 1991 when an old girlfriend and I took it to the Reading Festival for the weekend where Iggy Pop, The Sisters of Mercy and James were headlining the main stage. We also saw Carter USM, Pop Will Eat Itself and a pre superstardom Blur. T'was a fun weekend fuelled by lots of beer!

 

NEXT WEEK- PART FIFTEEN

 

Fifty Years Ago Part Thirteen

 Unlucky for some.

I have heard of but have no memory of watching Star Maidens... Neil was one of my best friends back then. We played Starsky and Hutch and Hulk, built camps in the garden in the summer holidays and later played our Adam And The Ants singles to death. I snapped my copy of Antmusic at his house by sitting on it, what a muppet. I replaced it in the early 90s. He had the coolest room in our street with loads of giant film and TV posters and the centre spreads from Look-in wallpapered onto the walls. I'd love to get back in touch with him but there's no sign of him on any social media. He had an older brother and younger sister, Katy and Iain, but no sign of them either. This isn't a dox as they are long gone from the road where we grew up, but if anyone knows where Neil Blackman who lived in Tockley Road, Burnham in the 70s and 80s, or his brother or sister I'd love to catch up, if only to see that he's having a good life.   

NEXT WEEK- PART FOURTEEN

Fifty Years Ago Part Twelve

 I loved that 'Frankingstine' model. All the versions I have found online have glow in the dark hands and face, but from what I remember it was all black plastic, no glow in the dark bits. Perhaps the UK had a cheaper version? I didn't paint my one either. To be fair, if I did it would have been a mess so that was for the best.

 

 NEXT- PART THIRTEEN

 

Fifty Years Ago Part Eleven

Missed a couple of weeks over the Christmas holidays, so it's Happy New Years from 1977. A great year that saw the Queen's silver jubilee and, more importantly, the start of 2000AD (although I didn't start reading it regularly until 1980) and Star Wars!

 NEXT- PART TWELVE!

Woolley Jumper #14

 

Back to Mr Woolley's Massacre Comix this week with Part 2 of the secret origin of Massacre Man, originally published in Mondo#24 in July 1994. The issue featured two (!) editorial pages by Lee Davis, a Darkness text story, the first part of Superman In Britain, an interview with long term Mondo artist Tim Rees, Tim's own strip Mirror-Man, an article on the Sharpe TV show, Survivor by Lee Davis and Darren Bardsley, British Bulldog 2 by Davis and Paul Knight, and the final part of the Negative Man story The Heroic Trinity by Lee and Chris Doughty. All stuffed into 52 fun packed pages, not bad for £1.35 (plus postage).

Mondo #24 over art by Paul Knight

 NEXT TIME- MORE NONSENSE