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I'll be there Got a pass out from the wife to come down on Friday night rather than just for the day on Saturday.

Buster Book 1983 (including what looked like early Nick Brennan art, but Nick confirmed it wasn't. Identified elsewhere as probably Russell Brookes)
Whizzer and Chips Annual 1979
Krazy Annual 1981

Not bad!

A David Aja cover 2000AD anniversary Prog, still on sale in FPI Belfast, and TPO (revised.)

Not bad

I believe Dave was unwell for some months.

It's really good, takes up a decent amount of downstairs in the Cartoon Museum. You get to compare Mick McMahon's original artwork for the first spread of the final episode of the Cursed Earth on the wall with the Prog in a case in front, and there is lots of absolutely gorgeous work, including some...

Lew's confirmed that it's Diego Jourdan Pereira.

Diego drew Ivy the Terrible for some time a few years ago.

I think the extra panels are a bit of a quid pro quo for the annuals having shrunk from 144 pages as late as possibly the 2000s and certainly the 1990s to 96 pages today. More panels, compared to 8 to a page back then, so arguably we are getting more story in less space. . The Dandy and Beano annua...

I think the extra panels are a bit of a quid pro quo for the annuals having shrunk from 144 pages as late as possibly the 2000s and certainly the 1990s to 96 pages today. More panels, compared to 8 to a page back then, so arguably we are getting more story in less space. I still miss the big panels ...

DJP could have course be John Polland's initials.

Peter is still drawing Harry on the same page. Unless it's gone to reprint as well, I would have gone for either budget cuts or Morris Heggie has given up writing them - he of course succeeded David Donaldson

I didn't see that week's, but they're reprints this week from the early 1980s. The Broons is by Peter, and Oor Wullie by John Polland.

More information here.

By the mid-1970s, they were printing all nine frames of Black Bob with a title frame on the first page and a "Next episode" frame at the bottom of the second one. Space was created by shortening the captions and placing them on the frame rather than below. Many of the Weekly News strips were printed...

They are picked up on a Wednesday normally, a week in advance of publication (yes, TNT/Whistl are that rubbish) so if you subscribed after that, they come as back issues.

Call the old progs 2000-2014 prog 2000 (Annual) etc.

It was not the final cover. The in-comic ads carry a small print disclaimer that the Beano annual cover may be different (read: WILL be different) but I haven't had a chance to dig around and see if it's available in Belfast yet.

I found it interesting that they were advertising - I thought they had already replaced Morris Heggie as archivist, and of course this is combining his former role with that of Calum Laird.