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Showing posts with label Jane. Show all posts

19 April 2026

UPDATED: Cartoon Aid

I've looked before at publications associated with the Cartoon Aid charity (like Band Aid but with more cartoons and less Bob Geldof) - if you missed them they are as follows...

a). the Olympic book is here
b). Bryan Hitch's work in the Kidz book is here
c). Mike Collin's work in the Kidz book is here
d). Terry & Sheila Bave's work in the Kidz book is here
e). Simon Donald's work in the Kidz book is here
f). Cartoon Aid auction at Sotheby's & a festival in Margate is here
g). Waddington's jigsaw (from the Margate festival is here)
h). Scare Bears monster party book is here 
i). a REALLY big tome called Cartoon Aid here 
j). the 'Loadsa Funnies' telethon book featuring Judge Dredd art by Jim Baikie is here
k). same book but a Dredd strip by John Wagner & Mike Collins is here
l). same book but art by Bryan Hitch and Reg Smythe is here
m). same book but art by Davy Francis is here
n). same book but contributions by humour artists is here
o). same book - contributions by John M Burns, Dave Gibbons and others is here

I've started looking at some of the contents of this big book, so far I've looked at Asterix (here and here) and then I've found that there is some DC Thomson material in there (here) and then I've found some Achille Talon material (here) and some Look-In (here). The Lucky Luke material is here

Turns out that there was a t-shirt available too. Art by the legendary John M Burns. At the time of typing this is for sale here on ebay by someone based in Ukraine.




13 August 2025

Jane figures

I've looked before at the work of Normat Pett (here) and his creation Jane (here) and fellow Jane fan and friend of the blog Derek Wilson recently shared this photo with me. 

As you can, hopefully, see it's a set of lead figures of Jane! Very rare I'm sure. I'd certainly never seen these before and I'm grateful to Derek for allowing me to share this image.



27 June 2025

Jane's calendar 1947, the 2nd one

I've looked before at the work of Normat Pett (here) and his creation Jane (here) and recently spotted this rare piece of Jane merchandise for sale. I've swiped the images for posterity and note that this 1947 calendar has different images on it to this calendar that I blogged about in 2022 







24 June 2025

Rare jigsaw featuring Jane of the Daily Mirror

I'm always happy to update a blog posting, so here's an update to a February 2019 posting (here) about a rare piece of Jane merchandise. A jigsaw entitled 'A fancy dress "affair"'. This was up for sale on ebay a few months ago...


...it turns out that there was a 'sister' jigsaw to this one, we'll see that tomorrow









8 June 2025

Norman Pett paints Jane

This original painting of Jane sold for £69 on ebay in January - a bargain for someone!

You can check out all other mentions of Norman Pett on the blog here

You can check out all other mentions of Jane on the blog here






14 August 2022

'Jane' greeting card - Norman Pett

I've looked before at the work of Normat Pett (here) and his creation Jane (here) and recently spotted this rare piece of Jane merchandise for sale. I've swiped the images for posterity...





7 August 2022

Jane's calendar 1946

I've looked before at the work of Normat Pett (here) and his creation Jane (here) and recently spotted this rare piece of Jane merchandise for sale. I've swiped the images for posterity...






The calendar was also available in blue

You can look at details of the 1947 calendar here 

31 July 2022

Another Journal (1950)

I've covered Jane material by Norman Pett on the blog before (here) and now, thanks to a seller on ebay, I can look a little deeper into a number of Jane books that Pett produced. 

All dates are based on this blog post by Steve Holland

Here's the next book them - come back soon for more!











24 July 2022

Pett's annual (1944)

I've covered Jane material by Norman Pett on the blog before (here) and now, thanks to a seller on ebay, I can look a little deeper into a number of Jane books that Pett produced. 

All dates are based on this blog post by Steve Holland

Here's the next book them - come back soon for more! 








11 July 2022

Another Journal (1951)

I've covered Jane material by Norman Pett on the blog before (here) and now, thanks to a seller on ebay, I can look a little deeper into a number of Jane books that Pett produced. 

All dates are based on this blog post by Steve Holland

Here's the next book them - come back soon for more! Interestingly this is the 2nd edition, and therefore different from the cover used on Steve's blog