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Showing posts with label Nigel Kitching. Show all posts
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26 April 2022

Nigel Kitching - UKCAC contributions

As a follow-up piece to my recent post (for the Sonic the Comic podcast guys) here about Bojan Djukic drawing for UKCAC conventions I thought I'd look up their favourite artist, Nigel Kitching, and see if he'd done any work for UKCAC.

Bristol comic expo (2004-2014) is here
London comic festival 2003 is here
Kev Sutherland festival original art is here
A 'Lawless 2019' miscellany is here
Boys and Girls exhibitions of the 1950s and '60s is here
Glasgow comic art convention is here
Edinburgh art convention is here
Hi-Ex convention is here
UKCAC - part 1 - is here
UKCAC - part 2 - is here
UKCAC - part 3 - is here
BICS convention is here
Glasgow comic con is here
Kapow! comic con is here
British comic conventions 1970-76 is here 
British comic conventions 1977-81 is here 
A miscellany is here

Nigel's work can be found in the following convention brochures...

The UKCAC 1997 brochure - Frank Quitely cover

Spawn by Nigel Kitching

The UKCAC 1996 brochure - Bryan Talbot cover

Batman by Nigel Kitching

The UKCAC 1995 brochure - Duncan Fegredo cover


The UKCAC 1994 brochure - Glenn Fabry cover
Jack Kirby had died in early 1994 so there were many artistic tributes to him in the brochure...

Here's his contribution to the 1991 brochure (Simon Bisley on cover art duties)


Here's his contribution to the 1989 brochure (John Bolton on cover art duties)




19 February 2022

Donkey Kong jungle action special

I recently became aware of this Fleetway produced Donkey Kong jungle action special comic (from 1995). I don't (yet!) own a copy so I've had to have a quick Google to see what I can find out about it...

The best resource I can find about the comic is here. More details once I get hold of a copy but the wiki credits Nigel Kitching as the artist, John Moore as the artists and Tom Frame & Ellie De Ville as the letterers.







5 July 2020

UKCAC 1986 - portfolio (part 1 of 3)

For the United Kingdom Comic Art Convention (UKCAC) in 1986 a portfolio of drawings was produced from the artists present at the convention. It features loads of great art, here's the first selection of images...





There is (was?) a copy for sale here and the description below gives some useful context for the portfolio...

From the press release -
"We believe that we've scheduled a completely unique idea for the convention that will provide you a completely unique and worthwhile souvenir of the weekend. On the Saturday we hope to persuade every professional artist present to contribute to an eight piece illustration that will be printed overnight to provide the UKCAC86 Portfolio. All going to schedule this will be on sale at £1.50 for Sunday lunchtime, with all profits going to African famine relief. We're only printing 600 portfolios, and the original artwork will be auctioned on Sunday... a true collector's item, so snap them up quickly."

Full list 
1. Dave Gibbons "Rorschach", Barry Windsor-Smith "The Hulk", Gilbert Shelton "Fat Freddy's Cat"
2. Mike Collins "Axel Pressbutton" (Warrior), Kevin O'Neill "Metalzoic", Phil Elliott "Gibley"
3. Brett Ewins "Johnny Nemo", Carl Potts "Alien Legion", Gil Kane "Arak"
4. Bryan Talbot "Nemesis", Jim Baikie "Electric Warrior", Cam Kennedy "The Outsiders B.D. Ricken-Backer"
5. Frank Miller "Batman: The Dark Knight Returns"
6. Brian Bolland / Richard Starkings "The Joker - Smile!", John Bolton "Ogre"
7. John Ridgway "The 6th Doctor Who", Gary Kwapisz "Conan", Hunt Emerson "Max Zillion", Al Davison "The Astral Gypsy"
8. Eddie Campbell "Alec", Nigel Kitching "The Silver Surfer", Chris Donald "Felix and his Amazing Under-pants" (Viz), Mark Farmer "Kilowog"
9. Alan Davis "Batman", Myra Hancock "Myra", Seth "Cityscape", Unknown "Daredevil"
10. Graham Higgins "Retinal Burn", Bill Sienkiewicz "Jason from Friday The 13th - as child, Thursday The 12th"
11. Glenn Fabry "Ukko", Unknown "Mister X", David Lloyd "V for Vendetta", Fox "Redfox", Alan Moore "Maxwell The Magic Cat", John Higgins "Zombie"
12. Ian Gibson "Halo Jones", Lew Stringer "Brickman"