New British Comic Art Blog.

crow · Post by **crow** » 14 May 2009, 23:26

Hi.
Just a quick word to inform you of my new Blog dedicated to British comic art.

You'll find it here: http://britishcomicart.blogspot.com/

Here's an old site of mine as well: http://www.britishcomicart.netfirms.com/

Cheers.

Peter Gray · Post by **Peter Gray** » 15 May 2009, 00:01

Looks good I've added you to my blog list at my blog so I can see when you update it..

happy blogging

Raven · Post by **Raven** » 15 May 2009, 00:27

Nice! I'd forgotten that Ron Turner did Thingumajig in its early days. Good to see that again.

crow · Post by **crow** » 19 May 2009, 04:33

More images added: http://britishcomicart.blogspot.com/

Peter Gray · Post by **Peter Gray** » 19 May 2009, 18:09

Its great to see..and expanding very quickly..
loved the fishboy post...now to read Spellbinder..

keep up the good work..

philcom55 · Post by **philcom55** » 19 May 2009, 18:23

Peter Gray wrote:Its great to see... keep up the good work..

Yes. Geoff Campion was so good! It's such a shame that some people still mistake his flawless draughtsmanship for blandness: he really could draw anything and make it look easy!

- Phil Rushton

crow · Post by **crow** » 24 May 2009, 14:02

Can anyone identify this artist for me?

http://britishcomicart.blogspot.com/200 ... alken.html

Cheers.

colcool007 · Post by **colcool007** » 24 May 2009, 22:30

If it is the original artist then it is Luis Collado Coch. I have it on very best authority, as in the original Deputy Editor who commissioned the strip in the first place! Which reminds me, I must get on and sort out that article for Crikey!

Also, I love your original site Crow as it was one of the very first comic sites that I found. Keep up the good work and all us comic fans will be happy.

crow · Post by **crow** » 25 May 2009, 10:39

Hey Colcool.
Thanks for the reply. The art shown isn't by Luis Collado Coch, but I'm glad you told me, because I'll be putting up some of his Falken art soon. I did a quick search and found some more art here: http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2657 ... hite01.jpg Which is mid-way down this page: http://elblogdelrincondetaula.blogspot. ... chive.html

The other guy's been around British comics since the early 1960s. He seems to have worked for both Amalgamated Press and DC Thomson during his career.

colcool007 · Post by **colcool007** » 25 May 2009, 22:59

The only other artist that I am aware of doing Falken is Mike Dorey, but I am awaiting for my contact to confirm that. But the art that you have on display is much too 'clean' to be attributed to Dorey, which is why I am sticking with Coch as my original guess!

Lew Stringer · Post by **Lew Stringer** » 25 May 2009, 23:06

crow wrote:Can anyone identify this artist for me?

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It's the same artist who drew The Man in Black strip for Spike. That was the strip which revived Wilson, and the artist's name was Wilson too; Neville Wilson.

Lew

crow · Post by **crow** » 25 May 2009, 23:54

Hey Lew.
Thanks for the info. I'm so glad I can put a name to the artwork.

Cheers!!

Peter Gray · Post by **Peter Gray** » 03 Jun 2009, 00:12

For some reason I can't leave comments at your blog..it has no place to type in the white box..

Anyway what a dark story...very gripping...
Soldier Sharp-The Rat of the Rifles

From the first ("Great news chaps!") merged issue of Battle & Valiant dated, 23 October 1976. This strip comes over from Valiant with nice art by Joe Colquhoun. Kind of an unusual strip this one. Sharp was an interesting character: he was the antithisis of the usual 'hero' being an utter scumbag, who'd sell his own mother to save his skin. From what I remember, he had his comeuppance in the end...

philcom55 · Post by **philcom55** » 03 Jun 2009, 08:20

Lew Stringer wrote:It's the same artist who drew The Man in Black strip for Spike. That was the strip which revived Wilson, and the artist's name was Wilson too; Neville Wilson.

To be honest I was only aware of Neville Wilson before this as the artist who took over from Ron Forbes on Frank Pepper's 'Captain Condor' strip in Lion during the 1950s:

I'd always wondered what became of him as he didn't seem to get any more work at Fleetway after he was replaced by Geoff Campion in October 1959, so I guess it makes perfect sense that he should have moved to DC Thomson like fellow Condor artist George Heath. The odd thing is that his style seems to have changed quite radically by the time he was drawing stories such as 'Kampfgruppe Falken' and 'The Man in Black' in the 70s and 80s. I wonder if the all-knowing Kashgar could enlighten us whether this was indeed the same Neville Wilson - and if so what sort of strips he was working on during the 1960s?

- Phil Rushton

Kashgar · Post by **Kashgar** » 03 Jun 2009, 09:59

It is the same Neville Wilson Phil. In the 1960's most of his work for Thomson's appeared in Hotspur (he certainly did nothing for either Victor or Hornet) and, off the top of my head before I check for other examples, I seem to remember him drawing a fair few boxing strips with titles such as 'Battling Pete of the Pit Ponies' and 'Kashgar' (that sounds eerily familiar for some reason) coming to mind.
In the Lion I also remember him drawing a lot of the Bruce Kent 'Spot the Clue' detective series in his pre Thomson days.
Late on at Thomsons I seem to remember he also became very much involved with the long-running Victor football series 'The Goals of Jimmy Grant'

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