Maxwell the magic cat, volume 3

The four slim reprint volumes (published by Acme press) of Alan Moore's Maxwell the magic cat newspaper strips are surely high on the wants list of any Moore aficionado. Volumes 1 and 2 seem a little easier to get hold of than volumes 3 and 4 but I've long been more interested in volumes 3&4 as I knew they had Maxwell work by other artists in.

Below we have the artistic highlights of volume 3 - the original art of these images (along with those in volume 4) were all auctioned off at UKCAC87 for charity.

Art by Bryan Talbot

Art by Garry Leach

Art by John Bolton

Art by Graham Higgins (top) and Dave Gibbons (bottom)

Art by Ian Gibson

this fast-driving truck driver is clearing dead cats off the front of his cab - nice!

Max Overload issue 2

Previously I've looked at Max Overload (1994, from the relatively short-lived publisher imprint Dark Horse International) - the 2nd issues, dated April 1994, has now arrived. There is no 3rd issue - due, according to this link, to Dark Horse International going bust in 1994.

Anyway, good luck tracking down this rare comic & gaming magazine mash-up...it's got 32 pages of comics content in a 64 page magazine so that's a pretty good ratio as far as I'm concerned.

Woodrow Phoenix draws the cover

Lemmings - art by Graham Manley, script by Dick Hansom [8 pages]

Toejam & Earl - art by Woodrow Phoenix, script by Anne Caulfield [8 pages]

Chuck rock - art by David Lyttleton, script by Cefn Ridout [8 pages]

Greendog - jaws, claws and dinosaurs - art by Ilya, script by Ian Carney [8 pages]

And here's the day when a camera crew turned up for filming...Anne Caulfield and Woodrow Phoenix looking very relaxed there...

Here's the back page advert for issue #3 - cover at by David Lyttleton

Max Overload! from Dark Horse comics

To me Max Overload! was a completely unknown entity until quite recently when I started listening to the Sonic the Comic podcast. In one of the early 'pods' this magazine got a shout out so I went off to track it down...

First up, while it's produced by a comics company (Dark Horse) this isn't a comic, it's a games magazine. However it has got a lot more comics content then you'd expect to see in such a magazine. Anyway, let's see what's in it...

Cover by Dave Pether 

Some lovely photos of our contributors

Greendog - jaws, claws and dinosaurs - art by Ilya, script by Ian Carney

Chuck rock - art by David Lyttleton, script by Cefn Ridout 

Toejam & Earl - art by Woodrow Phoenix, script by Anne Caulfield

Lemmings - art by Graham Manley, script by Dick Hansom

Back over

well there was an issue 2 but it seems even harder to track down than issue 1 - there wasn't a 3rd issue.