Glasgow Comic Art Convention - 1991

I've looked before (here) at the 1990s incarnation of the Glasgow Comic Art Convention (GCAC) that ran from 1990-5. I've been collecting the convention programmes for a long time and this was the final one I needed! I was very pleased to pick this up recently and I'm highlighting just some of the interior art. Good luck tracking down your own copy

Glasgow comic art convention 1991, Judge Dredd by Colin MacNeil

Glasgow comic art convention 1991, Dan Dare (& Digby) by David Pugh

Glasgow comic art convention 1991, DR & Quinch by Alan Davis

Glasgow comic art convention 1991, Judge Dredd by Will Simpson

Glasgow comic art convention 1991, Judge Dredd by Steve Yeowell

Glasgow comic art convention 1991, Wonderwoman by Brian Bolland

and here's a complete list of artists who created art for the souvenir programme

Heroes! The British invasion of American comics - part 8

Recently (ish!) finished at the Cartoon Museum (here) was their exhibition 'Heroes! The British invasion of American comics'. 

For anyone who couldn't make it here's part 8 of my look at what you missed...

Part 1 was here

Part 2 was here

Part 3 was here

Part 4 was here

Part 5 was here

Part 6 was here

Part 7 was here

Heritage auctions - London, part 1

Here's a few images from the recent event (11th Feb 2026) at the Heritage Auctions gallery in central London. Event seemed to go well - they've promised to organise more! 

Art is up for auction at either auction 7461 (here) or 7462 (here) at the end of Feb/start of March. Good luck if you bid!

Judge Dredd megazine cover by Dean Ormston

John Byrne Superman / Joker cover

Lee Elias cover art for 'Chamber of Chills'

John Bolton 

Steve Dillon exhibition (Stevenage) - part 4

Some images from the recent Steve Dillon exhibition that was held in Stevenage...

Part 1 was here

Part 2 was here

Part 3 was here

Steve Dillon exhibition (Stevenage) - part 3

Some images from the recent Steve Dillon exhibition that was held in Stevenage...

Part 1 was here

Part 2 was here

This was very hard to photograph! So apologies there's so much of me in this image!

UPDATED: Glasgow comic art convention, 1990-95

I've recently look at a lot at the various programmes produced to tie-in with various comic conventions...

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

Updated: Glasgow Comic Art Convention 1991 brochure added to the listing

...and today it's the turn of The Glasgow comic art convention (GCAC), which ran from 1990-95...I've included the listing of all those that contribute pin-ups to these programmes. These are great and well worth tracking down.

Glasgow comic art convention, 1990, A4, 68 pages, cover art by Ian Gibson

Glasgow comic art convention, 1991, A4, 68 pages, cover art by Colin MacNeil

Glasgow comic art convention, 1992, A4, 68 pages, cover art by Jamie Hewlett

 Glasgow comic art convention, 1993, A4, 72 pages, cover by Steve Pugh

Glasgow comic art convention, 1994, A5, 64 pages, cover by Mark Buckingham

Glasgow comic art convention, 1995, A5, 16 pages, cover by Steve Yeowell

interior art by Thomas Creilly, Darryl Cunningham, Craig Dixon, Mike Hadley, Robert McCallum, Jim O'Reday and Frank Quitely

UPDATED: Comics Diaries

I've looked at the diaries produced by Eagle, Girl & Swift before, but in separate posts, so I thought I might usefully pull that information together into a single post.

I've now started adding other comics / comic strips to this listing - all new entries are shown in red. For this post I've added details of some Giles diaries.

c/o Steve Keene-Elliott who says...

From what information I've managed to gather, there were 4 Giles Diaries issued in total:
• Giles Diary 1994 (ISBN-10 0091778808, Random House, 1993)
• Giles Pocket Diary 1995 (ISBN-10 009178574X, Ebury Press Stationery, 1994)
• Giles Diary 1995 (ISBN-10 0091785162, Ebury Press Stationery, 1994)
• Giles Desk Diary 1996 (ISBN-10 0091806445, Vintage/Ebury, 1995)

Having said that, I've never seen the 1996 one, it's been on my wishlist for a very long time!

Rupert

Rupert diary, 1993

Rupert diary, 1995

Rupert diary, 2013

Rupert diary, 2015

Rupert diary, 2016

Eagle

Diaries were produced for at least 1951-63. No diary would have been produced for 1950 (Eagle launched in mid-April so that would have made no sense). I have copies of diaries for the following years...1951-63, so I'm just missing any produced from 1964 onwards. 

Diaries typically look like this...

Girl

This auction lot mention a Girl diary for 1953. Looks very similar to the 1956 one!

Only example I've ever seen - no idea how many were produced. This is for 1956.

Swift

Only example I've ever seen - no idea how many were produced

Judge Dredd diaries

For the year 2000...

and these images (all swiped from here) of a numbered limited edition version of the year 2000 diary as well

Doonesbury desk diaries

Doonesbury desk diary for 1984

Doonesbury desk diary for 1985

Doonesbury desk diary for 1988

Doonesbury desk diary for 1989

Doonesbury desk diary for 1991

Princess Tina diary 1968

image c/o Janis Cross (on the "Girls comics - UK" facebook group)

Princess Tina diary 1973

with more details here c/o friend of the blog Jeremy Briggs

TV21 diary for 1970

Originally priced at seven shillings in 1970 Letts published a much coveted, TV21 “desk diary”, featuring photographs from many of the Gerry Anderson series. Produced so it could be used for any year during the 1970s, they’re considered quite rare today, offered for eye watering prices unblemished on auction sites. Perhaps Anderson Entertainment should take note. “The price put it out of the range of many a fan of the time,” recalls John Freeman, “including me.”

The Murdersville blog has some more photos of interior pages