Comics UK

Has 'modesty' been deleted from your dictionary, Kev? Your arrogant rantings in this and other posts is really beginning to grate! So don't click on his posts. Simple! I've known Kev for many years and he's a multi-talented bloke. Not everything he does is everyone's cup of tea but that's to be exp...

chrissmillie wrote:Yeah, omly 50. But then again, humour comics aren't my bag. Honestly don't know what people see in them.

Which is a bit like someone saying they don't understand what people see in comedy films or sit-coms.

Four words: Ken Reid; comedy genius.

Lew

American phrases have been used in British comics for many years. No harm done. And "soccer", American or not, has been used numerous times in British strips for decades.

Lew

Conor B wrote:I don't like what American people think of Brits and never will do.

There's prejudice everywhere. All the Americans I've met have been fine.

Lew

Its funny what Americans think of our Dennis http://www.platypuscomix.net/otherpeople/dennithemenni.html I much prefer ours..... Gordon Bennett was very like Dennis the Menace in America... British comic humour is perhaps a bit too vulgar for some American tastes. I always found their Archie Comics...

If anyone here isn't already aware of it, there's a great publication called Spaceship Away which publishes brand new Dan Dare strips in the style of the original Eagle comic. The pages are even drawn by Don Harley, one of the original artists, and the comic is officially licensed from the copyright...

I've updated my website with news of a new strip I'm doing for Panini, which appears in Marvel Rampage next week, plus news of other strips I'm currently working on. Please feel free to visit this link if you're interested:

http://lewcomix.tripod.com/id1.html


Lew

Be great if they could collect the Space 1999, Sapphire & Steel etc into graphic novels. But then again IPC owns it, so probebly won't happen. Still, worth dreaming about... Chris I don't think IPC would still own the licence to those tv strips now. I believe that rights to tv strips belong to whoe...

ridders1977 wrote:
I've managed to collect about 70 issues of champ from ebay etc and im reading through them now - jeez, comics where proper back in the day werent they?

Although at the time many older readers thought comics of that period were not "proper comics".

Lew

I must admit that, apart from the fantastic Mike Noble artwork on Timeslip I thought Look-In was far inferior to Countdown when both titles were launched in 1971. Obviously the rest of the country thought differently. :) While Look-In went from strength to strength (becoming the UK's top selling com...

Conor B wrote:Anybody?

The beauty of the internet is that anyone can dedicate a website to their interests. Why not have a go at a Plug site yourself?

Lew

None in the Stoke-on_Trent Smith's today. Would probably have passed on it anyway if it only has 1 6-page strip. Earl. I'm afraid that's the way comics are now. I think collectors would still find it worthwhile to buy issue one though, to have a representation of format of a 2006 Doctor Who comic. ...

I'd say the early years of Look-In would definitely put it in a "comic" category. After all, TV Century 21 had a lot of features in it too, and the pre-WW2 comics had 50% text stories, but they're still regarded as comics. As time passed, Look-In had less strips so I'd say it became a magazine. But ...

Also got this American edition. Actually all of those DC comics are American editions. Back in those days there were so many US comics imported to the UK that it was financially viable to print the UK price on the covers for those intended to ship to England. They just stopped the presses, changed ...

Captain Scarlet was a short run series shown only on Channel 5 in a hidden away slot, so unless it had built up a cult following it wasn't going to be a big hit. It had the same number of episodes as new Doctor Who (13) and was shown on ITV on Saturday mornings. Not as well promoted as Doctor Who a...