The Thing from Basingstoke - a lost Oink! strip?

Image sourced from a back issue of Scan fanzine from John Freeman...an interesting pitch of a strip to Oink! - no idea if it was ever published - can anyone help??

True life stories - channel 4

Here's an intriguing item spotted on ebay recently...

This is an 8-page promotion for Channel 4's Spring 2001 programmes.  Printed on heavy card paper it was stapled into one of the Sunday newspaper colour supplements.  Each programme is presented as a one-page comic strip.

John Cooper on art duties for 'Kevin Keegan'

Woodrow Phoenix on art duties for '57 screaming kids'

Xtina Lamb on art duties for 'Tina takes a break'

Kev Hopgood on art duties for 'Gladiatrix'

John Cooper on art duties for 'Drinking girls'

Chrisopher Kasch on 'The secret rulers of the world'

Aces Weekly - LFCC 2013

As I'm off to London comic con today I thought I'd highlight this Aces Weekly ashcan comic from 2013 - which, as you'll see from the cover, was an LFCC 2013 exclusive. 16 pages in total, A5 sized. Good luck tracking one of these down.

Cover is by David Hitchcock, interior art is contributed by David Lloyd, David Hitchcock, Ben Dickson, Gavin Mitchell, Bambos Georgiou, Mychailo Kazybird, Yishan Li, Shaky Kane, David Hine, Steve Marchant, John McCrea, Phil Hester, Stephen Baskerville, Martin Griffiths, John Kaine, Kev Hopgood, Ferg Handley, Chris Geary.

My copy is signed by David Lloyd, Stephen Baskerville and Bambos Georgiou

Steve Dillon - Harlem heroes

A while ago I looked at Steve's contribution to 'newszine' Comic Media News International...

His contribution to issue 30 is here
His contribution to issue 38 is here
His contribution to issue 39 is here
His contribution to issue 40 is here

But to mark the 7th anniversary of his passing I'm highlighting his covers for the re-booted Harlem Heroes series. According to this link it ran in 2000AD from prog 671 to 705 and Steve provided pencils for issues 1-25 (out of 28 issues).

Harlem Heroes (Fleetway Quality) - issue 1, cover by Kev Walker [originally the cover to prog 671, 24th May 1990]

Harlem Heroes (Fleetway Quality) - issue 2, cover by Steve Dillon [originally the cover to prog 675, 21st April 1990)

Harlem Heroes (Fleetway Quality) - issue 3, cover by Steve Dillon [originally the cover to prog 683, 16th June 1990]

Harlem Heroes (Fleetway Quality) - issue 4, cover signed by Steve Dillon [originally the cover to prog 694, dated 1st September 1990]

Harlem Heroes (Fleetway Quality) - issue 5, cover by Kev Hopgood [originally the cover to prog 705, 17th November 1990]

Harlem Heroes (Fleetway Quality) - issue 6, cover signed by Steve Dillon [originally the cover to prog 684, dated 23rd June 1990]

All 2000AD cover c/o Barney here

Check out all the other posts on the blog featuring Steve's work here

Warhammer monthly comic - focus on Kev Hopgood covers

Recently I've been working my way through the cover artists who graced the cover of Warhammer monthly comic back in the late 90s / early '00s...

Issues 1-10 is here

Issues 11-20 is here
Issues 21-30 is here
Issues 31-40 is here
Issues 51-60 is here

Issues 61-70 is here

Issues 71-80 is here

Issues 81-86 is here

But obviously if you're after a particular artist I realised that it'd be a bit of a slog going through all those links, so instead I'm going to do a bit of a short-cut selection here and just look at the covers of a single artist at a time.

I looked at Clint Langley's covers here

I looked at Colin MacNeil's covers here

Next up is Kev Hopgood...

Warhammer comic - issue 2, cover by Kev Hopgood

Warhammer comic - issue 37, cover by Kev Hopgood

Warhammer comic - issue 78, cover by Kev Hopgood

Warhammer monthly comic - issue 71-80, cover artists guide

I never read Warhammer monthly back in the day and have only started picking it up in recent years - it's packed full of well-known (2000AD) creators and plenty of other not so well-known names. 

Anyway, a covers gallery is a good a way as any to act as an introduction to a comic so over the next few weeks I'll show you what the issues all look like. 

Issues 1-10 is here

Issues 11-20 is here

Issues 21-30 is here

Issues 31-40 is here

Issues 51-60 is here

Issues 61-70 is here

Next up is issues 71-80...

Warhammer monthly - issue 71, cover artist Ian Peterson 

Warhammer monthly - issue 72, cover artist Clint Langley

Warhammer monthly - issue 73, cover artist Dylan Teague

Warhammer monthly - issue 74, cover artist Karl Richardson

Warhammer monthly - issue 75, cover artist Karl Richardson

Warhammer monthly - issue 76, cover artist Patrick Goddard

Warhammer monthly - issue 77, cover artist Patrick Goddard

Warhammer monthly - issue 78, cover artist Kev Hopgood

Warhammer monthly - issue 79, cover artist Adrian Smith

Warhammer monthly - issue 80, cover artist Scott Johnson

Zoids collected comics

I looked (here) at the collected Ghostbusters comics that Marvel UK published. In a similar vein they also published 4 issues of the collected Zoids comics.

I don't have copies of these so I can't tell you whish issues are reprinted in each volume - so if you can help just let me know, thanks. Here we go then...

Zoids collected comic #1, published by Marvel UK

From March 1986
Contents are

• Zoids - Prologue (script/pencils: Steve Parkhouse - inks: John Aldrich)
• Zoids - one - Planetfall (Ian Rimmer - Kev Hopgood)
• Zoids - two - Better Red... (Ian Rimmer - Kev Hopgood)

according to this link
Zoids collected comic #2, published by Marvel UK

Published in July 1986. According to this link the contents are as follows:

• Zoids - Prologue (reprint from Secret Wars issue 12)
• Zoids - three - Funeral on Zoidstar (reprint from Spiderman and Zoids issues 1-2) (Ian Rimmer - Kev Hopgood)
• Zoids - four - Industrial Action (reprint from Spiderman and Zoids issues 3-5) (Ian Rimmer - Kev Hopgood)

Zoids collected comic #3, published by Marvel UK

Published in November 1986

Zoids collected comic #4, published by Marvel UK

Published in April 1987

Warhammer monthly comic - issue 31-40, cover artists guide

I never read Warhammer monthly back in the day and have only started picking it up in recent years - it's packed full of well-known (2000AD) creators and plenty of other not so well-known names. 

Anyway, a covers gallery is a good a way as any to act as an introduction to a comic so over the next few weeks I'll show you what the issues all look like. 

First up is issues 31-40...

Warhammer monthly - issue 31, cover artist Simon Davis

Warhammer monthly - issue 32, cover artist Kev Walker

Warhammer monthly - issue 33, cover artist Colin MacNeil

Warhammer monthly - issue 34, cover artist Simon Davis

Warhammer monthly - issue 35, cover artist Karl and Stefan Kopinski

Warhammer monthly - issue 36, cover artist Karl Richardson

Warhammer monthly - issue 37, cover artist Kev Hopgood

Warhammer monthly - issue 38, cover artist Adrian Smith

Warhammer monthly - issue 39, cover artist Karl and Stefan Kopinski

Warhammer monthly - issue 40, cover artist Simon Davies

Warhammer monthly comic - issue 1-10, cover artists guide

I never read Warhammer monthly back in the day and have only started picking it up in recent years - it's packed full of well-known (2000AD) creators and plenty of other not so well-known names. 

Anyway, a covers gallery is a good a way as any to act as an introduction to a comic so over the next few weeks I'll show you what the issues all look like. 

First up is issues 1-10...

Warhammer monthly - issue 1, cover artist Colin MacNeil

Warhammer monthly - issue 2, cover artist Kev Hopgood 

Warhammer monthly - issue 3, cover artist Simon Davis

Warhammer monthly - issue 4, cover artist Kev Walker

Warhammer monthly - issue 5, cover artist Simon Coleby

Warhammer monthly - issue 6, cover artist Karl Kopinski

Warhammer monthly - issue 7, cover artist Wayne Reynolds

Warhammer monthly - issue 8, cover artist Logan Lubera

Warhammer monthly - issue 9, cover artist Wayne England

Warhammer monthly - issue 10, cover artist Paul Staples