London cartoon centre benefit comic - "Cash"

Here's a bit of London comics history for you..."Cash" a benefit comic for the London Cartoon Centre. As this is #1, I'm guessing either there were 2 more issues or there were 2 other one-off comics. Any information welcomed.

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.
 

Comics 2001 charity deack of cards - Hearts

It was comics creator Kev Sutherland who took the idea of people doing sketches for a convention and, instead of putting them in a convention brochure, put them into a deck of cards. 

With hindsight I wish I'd got both the decks he produced (he did a second set in 2003) but I did get the 2001 edition - here are the hearts from that year...

Note that the 6 of hearts of is by Gary Spencer Millidge (but for some reason his signature didn't scan, hey-ho)