Ally Sloper, 1976 Alan Class revival

Two interesting Ally Sloper revival items are up for sale this week from the personal collection of comics publisher Alan Class.

First up is this lost - a publicity poster for the 1976 Ally Sloper comic that Alan Class published and Denis Gifford edited

Next up is this lot - a comics 'jam piece' from the launch party with lots of artists drawing their own versions of Ally Sloper. Artists who contributed include Hunt Emerson, Walter Bell, Alan Vince, Terry Wakefield, Keith J Luck, Tony Glynn, Keith Page, Ann Spano, Pany Clifford, Ewan Masters, Ed McHenry, Denis Gifford & Kevin O'Neill

Just to give you a sense of scale here's a scan from Ally Sloper #2 (October 1976) showing the piece being signed - it's huge!

Comics 101 autographs

I've looked before at the work of Denis Gifford (here) and at his Comics 101 convention in particular (here) but I've recently acquired a copy of the convention booklet complete with a number of signatures...so without further ado I present them here

A Denis Gifford selection (2)

Following on from my post last week (here) about 2 of the smaller books he wrote, here are 3 more pocket-sized volumes that he contributed to...

Denis's ITV show. Cover shown (from left to right)...Graeme Garden, Michael Bentine, Bill Tidy [red jumper] and Rolf Harris. The cover is by Chas Sinclair. The book is mainly cartooning tips and drawings By Denis but features artwork form the other cover stars.

It does what is says on the tine this one, a quiz book all about TV, questions by Denis Gifford (presumably) cartoon art throughout is by Terry Wakefield (more details here)

Another legendary comedy duo get the punning treatment from Denis in this small volume. Illustrations this time are by George Parlett (son of Harry Parlett and brother to Reg Parlett)

Go on, collect the set, why not? All should be available relatively cheaply.