Friday 17 December 2021

Merry Christmas!

Have a great festive season with all your family and friends and best wishes for the new year.

NUFF SAID.

Stop the division. Everyone has their own valid point of view. Only together can we move forward. Unite and end the dystopian clown-world.

NEXT TIME- 2022!!

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Friday 10 December 2021

New Discovery of Old 'Lost' Christmas Card Design!

Around this time last year I posted a few surviving Christmas card designs that my Dad did to give to friends, family and clients from the early to late 1970s. While he got the later ones professionally printed, the earlier ones he printed himself by creating the image as a lino cut, covered the lino in ink and printed it by passing the card and inked lino through an old mangle to mimic a printing press, kind of like a homemade etching. While tidying up a few months back I came across several prints of another design amongst some of his work. I don't remember this one but it's quite striking in it's graphic grainy simplicity. These are probably experiments in colour to see which version worked best. Personally the middle one works best for me. What do you think? I have no idea when he did this one, but I expect it's the early 70s. Love it...



There is a Facebook page that showcases more of my dad's art, including landscape paintings and arabic calligraphy, here-
Please check it out...

NEXT TIME- Chrimbo 2021!!

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Friday 26 November 2021

Woolley Jumper #10




NEXT TIME- ?!!!

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Friday 19 November 2021

The Death Of Simply Splendid!!

 


Recently I re-read the epic 'Death Of Superman' from DC Comics back in the early 90s for the first time since reading the trade collections at the time. It took some time, was great fun and I thoroughly enjoyed re-visiting such a huge story. 

Then I remembered this... Only Mondo could distil the 1600+ page monster of an epic into just two panels. Made me laugh back then... still does now.


'Simply Splendid' was a newspaper style strip that appeared on the editorial page of almost every issue. This one appeared in the March 1994 issue- #20, that also included the comics 'Man XL II' by Lee Davis and Steve Jones, 'Rip Kane II' by Lee Davis, John Maybury & Siobhan Hillman, Part 1 of Fred Fortune: Daze by me, the epilogue of 'Copter Cops' by Matt Banwell and Leonard Noel-White, episode 2 of the 'Darkness' story 'The Vengence of Screw U' by Mark Yarwood and Paul Knight, John Woolley's Massacre Comics continues with 'Power Hat' and Tim James and Chris Doughty provided the 'Negative Man' story 'Reflections in the Dark'. There were also a few articles including Lee Davis and Mark Yarwood's reflection on the life and career of Jack Kirby after his passing in February a month earlier and Lee reviewed the 1993 Superman radio drama.



NEXT- Woolley Jumper #10


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Friday 12 November 2021

BJ Teaser 'OOO-ERRR, MISSUS!!'


During the early 2000s artist BJ Wilson quickly became Mondo's stand out superstar with comics 'Iron Ed' and 'Assault Suit Kevin'. Sporting quite a cartoony style that is influenced by both US underground comix (Zap, Crumb etc) and the French/European comics (Metal Hurlant, Moebius etc) of the 1970s his work appeared in several underground/small press comics in the UK in the 80s before settling in to becoming a Mondo mainstay around the late 90s. He's known for his very precise inking and unique lettering style.

Here the is a few teaser illustrations by BJ to give you a sampler of what's to come. These are all just scans of the photocopied pages he sent me a while back and are unaltered. The proper stuff will be all tidied up and coloured... enjoy.


'Brilliant line work!!'


NEXT- The Death Of Simply Splendid
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Friday 5 November 2021

Mondominium #4

Not seen since the March 1995 issue of  Mondo (#32), this little gem saw Jon Edwards on a very Heavy Metal/Moebius sci-fi vibe. This new remastered version has been digitally restored and coloured very quickly by Yours Truly over a couple of weeks. Colouring isn't my strong point, but I really enjoyed doing this, the perfect pallet cleanser after months doing lots of very intense black and white detail on Fred Fortune. I loved those old Epic Comics reprint paperbacks of Moebius' work back in the late 80s and tried to evoke that colour style and not make it look too digital. My own colour sensibility has probably sneaked in a bit too much... What do you think?

Jon Edwards, apologies for remastering your stuff, if you are out there please get in touch...







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