The microlife of Alistair Sadgitt

I'm always happy to highlight the work of Lew Stringer (his blog is here), particularly any of the more obscure titles that the Lew Stringer completist in your life might not be aware of.

You can check out all previous mentions of Lew on the blog here

The last mention for Lew on the blog featured his Combat Colin comic produced waaaaaay back in the year 2000 - check it out here

Anyway, back to today's post! This is Lew's affectionate parody of all things The Prisoner TV show related. This looks really familiar to me and I wonder if I purchased it back in the day? Can't remember. Anyway, one for you all to look out for.

Combat Colin - 2000

Just recording the existence of this rare Combat Colin comic from creator Lew Stringer

The seller notes that... 

Combat Colin Limited Edition Special was published in the summer of 2000 by its creator - the Beano and Oink cartoonist - Lew Stringer. There were only 150 copies published each one signed. 19 pages plus a colour  page on the back. Includes of course Combat Colin,  Brickman and Pete and his Pimple.

Kevin O'Neill Nemesis the Warlock art for sale

Back here I reported recently on Lew Stringer selling a fantastic piece of Kev O'Neill artwork. Well, needs must, and now Lew is parting with an even more amazing piece of O'Neill artwork...this was originally the cover for issue #3 of Lew's fanzine Fantasy Express. At the time of typing bids are up to £850 but if the previous piece can go for £2,050 then this should go much higher. Good luck if you bid!

Bidding ends 9pm GMT on Sunday 31st August 2024 and can be found here

boom! sells for £4,169.69 

Kev O'Neill - Torquemada OA

Just a reminder that this fantastic piece of original Kevin O'Neill artwork is currently for sale on ebay. At the time of typing the price is £510 but I'm sure it'll go for more than that

You can find it here - the seller is Lew Stringer, he originally commissioned the piece for the back cover of issue #4 of his comics fanzine Fantasy Express (back in 1984). It's A5 sized - good luck if you bid! I'll report back with the winning bad in due course.

Boom! sells for £2,050!

Brickman first appearance

That finder of rare and wonderful comics things ewan_b has excelled himself again with this rare fanzine ...

...which features the very first appearance of Lew Stringer's Brick-Person, who would go on to become better known as Brickman, Lew's hilarious Batman parody strip. 

Cover for Oink! issue 58 by Lew Stringer

Just a quick shout-out for this piece of original comic art that cartoonist Lew Stringer currently has up for sale. As he says...

This is my FIRST VERSION of the cover artwork to OINK! comic No.53 (1988). Although I was pleased with the face of PETE AND HIS PIMPLE, I wasn't happy with how I'd done the captions so I rejected it and started again. (These days I could have adjusted things in Photoshop but back in 1988 that wasn't a thing.)

ANYWAY, this is the half completed first version of the cover that hopefully will interest collectors!

Black ink on Bristol Board. Original art, not a print, not a facsimile.

Condtion: Excellent!

Bidding ends on Monday night - good luck if you bid!

Ham Dare, Oink annual 1989

All these images are c/o Lew Stringer who recently auctioned off 3 pages of the Dan Dare parody strip Ham Dare. The pages sold for £609 - a great price! Ham Dare really is the best Dan Dare parody strip ever and the art of (the late) Malcolm Douglas really is great. So many authentic details from both writer & artist show the high regard they held for the original Dare strip. 

Ham Dare appeared in Oink! issues 14-19, the 1988 annual, the 1989 annual and the 1989 holiday special

UPDATED: Fleetway Editions limited., 1992 structure

An interesting page from the October 1992 SSI journal (as featured on the blog yesterday) is this diagram of the then current structure of Fleetway Editions limited.

Interesting points to note...

Group One contains "Law in Order" - which is actually better known as "The complete Judge Dredd comic" (the title logo said Law in Order)

Group Two contains Greenbug comic - which I looked at here and here

Group Two contains Young Indiana Jones - but I'm not aware of London Editions publishing a Young Indiana Jones title??? It could have been a reprint of material published contemporaneously by Dark Horse??

What was project "Odyssey"??

What was project "Oh No!!"??

UPDATE: I got some very useful feedback on the above two projects so I'm recording those Facebook comments here for posterity...thanks to all who contributed...

 

Unique Dandy comic up for sale this week

There's a fascinating copy of The Dandy up for sale here, previously owned by artist Duncan Scott, who died in 2021- as the seller explains...

Published by DC Thomson October 30th 2010.

This comic is number 26 of only 37 that were created specifically for the artists and staff working on The Dandy relaunch comic. The back cover was originally left blank for signatures etc.

This copy was given to DC Thomson artist Duncan Scott. Later on before his death he agreed on my request to draw The Bash Street Kids, Colin the Vet and The Neds.

...the auction runs until Tuesday lunchtime - good luck if you bid!

• Read a tribute to Duncan Scott here on downthetubes