Comic Cutz - the art of Barrie Mitchell (part 4)

The Barrie Mitchell exhibition that took place in Ryde in February 2026 had many highlights and a LOT of art. I tried to take photos of all the art but there was too much! Anyway, here's the start of a long series of posts all about the art that was there...

1). Harlem Heroes was here

2). paintings of cars was here

3). his work for Red Dwarf was here

And now (finally!) some football art

Mark Hateley...

George Best...

Comic Cutz - the art of Barrie Mitchell (part 3)

The Barrie Mitchell exhibition that took place in Ryde in February 2026 had many highlights and a LOT of art. I tried to take photos of all the art but there was too much! Anyway, here's the start of a long series of posts all about the art that was there...

1). Harlem Heroes was here

2). paintings of cars was here

His work for Red Dwarf the smegazine...

Comic Cutz - the art of Barrie Mitchell (part 2)

The Barrie Mitchell exhibition that took place in Ryde in February 2026 had many highlights and a LOT of art. I tried to take photos of all the art but there was too much! Anyway, here's the start of a long series of posts all about the art that was there...

1). Harlem Heroes was here

Barrie is a big fan of Jaguar cars so here's some of his car art...

Comic Cutz - the art of Barrie Mitchell (part 1)

The Barrie Mitchell exhibition that took place in Ryde in February 2026 had many highlights and a LOT of art. I tried to take photos of all the art but there was too much! Anyway, here's the start of a long series of posts all about the art that was there...

This is from the 1977 2000AD summer special...

The Euro 96 comic that never was

As Euro 2024 is well underway now I feel it's a great opportunity to re-post this piece on a lost comic from Euro 96...

As today marks the start of Euro "2020" this blog asks the question that no-one else is...do you remember the Euro 96 comic? 

Given pride of place on the cover of Comics International #67 (dated April 1996) - and with details inside (see below) of this pan-European project...

The answer is that you shouldn't be able to remember it because it was never printed. 

I wonder if anyone out there knows what happened to this? Was it published elsewhere in Europe? Get in touch if you know.

2000AD prog 14 - Flesh! cover up for sale

I've spotted that one of the very earliest 2000AD cover is currently up for sale right here on ebay. It;s the cover for prog 14 (issue cover dated 28th May 1977).

The opening bid was £1,000 and as I type this there have been two bids and the price has been bid up to £1,020

Cover art is by Barrie Mitchell 

Here's what the cover looked like when it was published...

...and here are some slightly more detailed images...

See all other mentions of Barrie Mitchell on the blog here

See all other mentions of 2000AD on the blog here

See all other mentions of original comic artwork on the blog here 

UPDATE: sold for £2,850

Alan Moore's (not the) World Cup comic

For anyone who's for Euro2020 withdrawal symptoms today there's only one comic worth thinking about...a comic about not the world cup...I thought we'd have a look at a Barrie Mitchell illustrated, Alan Moore (yes, really) scripted tale of not the (1982) world cup humour comic from Marvel UK.

Cover by John Higgins

All mentions of Alan Moore on the blog can be found here

The Euro 96 comic that never was

As today marks the start of Euro "2020" this blog asks the question that no-one else is...do you remember the Euro 96 comic? 

Given pride of place on the cover of Comics International #67 (dated April 1996) - and with details inside (see below) of this pan-European project...

The answer is that you shouldn't be able to remember it because it was never printed. 

I wonder if anyone out there knows what happened to this? Was it published elsewhere in Europe? Get in touch if you know.

Whatever happened to the Euro 96 comic?

As today would have been the start of Euro 2020 this blog asked the question that no-one else is...whatever happened to the Euro 96 comic? 

Given pride of place on the cover of Comics International #67 (dated April 1996) - and with details inside (see below) of this pan-European project.

I've never see this comic so I'm pretty sure it doesn't exist but I wonder if anyone out there knows what happened to this? was it published elsewhere in Europe? Get in touch if you know.

Enid Blyton's adventure magazine cover gallery (2)

Issue 5-8 of this title - which itself will subtly change its title when we arrive at issue 8 (the halfway point in the life of this title)

issue 5 adapted by Gail Renard and Les Lilley; illustrated by Barrie Mitchell

issue 6 adapted by Gail Renard and Les Lilley; illustrated by John Ridgway

issue 7 adapted by Gail Renard and Les Lilley; illustrated by Bert Hill

issue 8 adapted by Gail Renard and Les Lilley; illustrated by Phil Gascoine

It's not the world cup qualifying comic

As it's World cup qualifying weekend I thought we'd have a look at a Barrie Mitchell illustrated, Alan Moore (yes, really) scripted tale of not the (1982) world cup humour comic from Marvel UK.


cover by John Higgins