new from Book Palace books - part 1

Book Palace books have announced some new reprint volumes - here are the details of the first 2 books...

Glorious collection of four complete swashbuckling stories

The Scottish Chiefs
Thriller Picture Library #58 published March 1954
Art by Reg Bunn, cover art by Sep Scott
based on the book by Jane Porter

Under the Golden Dragon: The Story of the Norman Conquest
Thriller Picture Library #132 published May 1954
Art by Patrick Nicolle, cover art by WR Calvert
Written by Michael Butterworth

The Picture of Dorian Grey
Thriller Picture Library #148 published November 1956
Art by Robert Forrest, cover art by Sep Scott
Written by Leonard Matthews, after the novel by Oscar Wilde

The Three Musketeers and the Prince of Peril
Thriller Picture Library #183 published August 1957
Art by John Millar Watt, cover art by Enrico de Seta
Written by Leonard Matthews and G Allman, after the novel by Alexandre Dumas

Authors: Michael Butterworth, Leonard Matthews, G Allman, Jane Porter
Artists: Reg Bunn, Patrick Nicolle, Robert Forrest, John Millar Watt
Publisher: Book Palace Books, due late 2020
Number of pages: 272
Format: Flexi Cover; Black & White illustrations
Size: 6" x 8" (165mm x 215mm)
ISBN: 9781913548049


Next volume is...

Complete stories featuring the exhilarating piratical art of Philip Mendoza, Reg Bunn, Robert Forrest and John Millar Watt.

More details to follow.

Artists: Philip Mendoza, Reg Bunn, Robert Forrest, John Millar Watt
Publisher: Book Palace Books, due Summer 2020
Number of pages: 272
Format: Flexi Cover; Black & White illustrations
Size: 6" x 8" (165mm x 215mm)
ISBN: 9781907081910

Illustrators #26 - coming Summer 2019

I like Illustrators magazine and I'd like to read it more often but the in-depth focus on a small number of illustrators per issue means that my favourite type of illustrators - comics illustrators - can't be expected to take over a whole issue

Illustrators #26 (due Summer 2019) though will feature two (very different) comics artists - John Millar Watt and Philip Mendoza  

Millar Watt was an extremely versatile artist - from the simplicity of Pop to those gorgeous illustrations for Look and Learn. 

The other artist to be featured is Philip Mendoza who is probably best remembered these days for his illustrations of anthropomorphic animals..

...not all of his work was cute guinea pigs...

There is a preview of the magazine available here - the preview even makes a page-turning noise when you (digitally) turn the pages, lovely.  

Christmas quiz! Can you identify this comic?

I love a Christmas quiz, so in the spirit of that why not see if you can identify this comic...guesses in the comments section here on the blog or on Facebook directly. 

So, here it is then, can you work out what British comic featured all the following strips - artwork (in order, below) is by Don Harley, Gordon Hogg, Reg Parlett, Philip Mendoza, John M Burns, Basil Reynolds and John Ryan.

Stand by to find out much more about this comic this week...