The Panelhouse (1995/6)

The Panelhouse was an extremely professionally produced comic magazine from 1995/6. A4 in size, 36 pages, black & white throughout. I'll list the British comics highlights of each issue.Well worth tracking down.

The Panelhouse issue 1, April-July 1995

Hugo Pratt; Peter Bagge; an index of European graphic novels (in English) - part 1

The Panelhouse issue 2, August-November 1995

Bryan Talbot; an index of European graphic novels (in English) - part 2; 

The Panelhouse issue 3, November 1995-February 1996

Alex Toth; Hugo Pratt obituary; Edgar Jacobs; 

The Panelhouse issue 4, March-July 1996

Moebius; Mike McMahon; Jean Giaud's Blueberry; 

The Panelhouse issue 5, August-November 1996

Yves Chaland; comic price guide 1996/7 review; an article on US comic strips set in the UK (ridiculous stereotypes ahoy!)

Lieutenant Blueberry in "Speakeasy" 1988

Following on from my post (here) about the Titan books reprint of the adventures of Lieutenant (Mike) Blueberry, here's another series of Blueberry reprints that you might be less familiar with.

Speakeasy - the self-styled Britain's no.1 comics newspaper - is a great reference point for comic collectors as it's full of interviews, articles and art by a great selection of comics creators.

For 8 issues in 1988 it ran full page reprints of the Blueberry comic strip - the 8 episodes are the start of the story Angel Face; they are the start of chapter 6 in Blueberry book 3 (Angel Face)

Here's a gallery of what the issues each look like... 

Speakeasy #82, January 1988

Speakeasy #83, February 1988

Speakeasy #84, March 1988

Speakeasy #85, April 1988

Speakeasy #86/7, June 1988

Speakeasy #88, July 1988

Speakeasy #89, August 1988

Speakeasy #90, September 1988

Lieutenant Blueberry - Egmont/Methuen reprints

Continuing my look at the reprints here in the UK of the work of Jean Giraud / Moebius (see here and here) I should also flag up the earliest (and thinnest!) reprint volumes...

Like all other volumes highlighted so far these volumes are pretty pricey to get hold of these days.

Published in 1977 this first volume, like all the others highlighted here, look a lot like a 'normal' Asterix / Tintin volume. This has 46 pages and, again like most Asterix books, it's translated by Anthea Bell & Derek Hockridge.

This second volume was also published in 1977 (and was also translated by Anthea Bell & Derek Hockridge).

This is the volume I'm missing

Moebius - Titan Books reprints (part 2)

Continuing from my previous post (here) concerning Moebius's work being reprinted by Titan in the late 1980s - you get a lot of (just great) comics for your money in these volumes as they're pretty long, but they do seem pretty hard to get hold of, and pretty costly even when you do find them. 

I picked up 4 of the 5 volumes in this set in a comic shop in France a couple of Summer's back, I've read volume 1 (and it was just fantastic) but I'm missing volume 4 - the search continues!

Blueberry volume 1 - Chihuahua pearl (Titan books reprint volume) - published September 1989

Blueberry volume 2 - Ballad for a coffin (Titan books reprint volume) - published November 1989

Blueberry volume 3 - Angel face (Titan books reprint volume) - published January 1990

Blueberry volume 4 - The ghost tribe (Titan books reprint volume)

Blueberry volume 5 - The end of the trail (Titan books reprint volume) - published May 1990