UPDATED: Fun and Games comic

This is not to be confused with Tesco fun 'n games (which I looked at here and here) but instead is a comic I know very little about. The comic is described thus by Comics International...New two-in-one comic: Fun reprints Fleetway's Frankiestein, Sweeny Toddler etc. Games is a 24 page cover-mounted supplement, 99p

This is the only image I can find of it online.

Cover art clearly by Tom Paterson. It's published by Nexus Media.

The first mention of Fun and Games in Comics International #79 (March 1997) where issues 3&4 are highlighted. The last mention in Comics International #93 - where issues 29 & 30 are highlighted. There may have been further issues but Comics International never mentions Fun and Games again.

Update

I've now acquired some more images...

Issue 1 with free gift

You can just about see (on the bottom left hand side) the wrap-around (cover-mounted) 'games' section. So, even if 'games' gets detached from the comic you'd still have the 'fun' section left looking like a regular comic.

Ah, here's a Claws reprint...

...and more Tom Paterson art on the back page.

The bottom half of Tom Paterson's art is obscured by the cover-mounted, wraparound 'games' section.

Lew Stringer has look at Fun and games on his blog here

UPDATE:

I've now found a cover for issue #4 (June 1997). Another cover by Tom Paterson.

contents include...Frankie Stein, art by Terry Bave, 'Strong Stuff' strip, 'Handy Andy' strip, 'Memory Banks' strip, 'X-ray specs' strip, 'Sammy shrink' strip, 'Lazy Bones' strip, 'Cry baby' strip, 'Creepy Comix' strip and 'The Invisible family' by Tom Paterson (this looks like a new strip whereas the rest are reprints).

UPDATED: Greenbug comic

I looked here at short-lived (?) environmental humour comic Greenbug (London Editions, 1991) and now some scans of interior art have come to light. I recognise the work of Tom Paterson and there are other artists whose style (but not names) are familiar to me. Any help identifying artists is always welcome! 

UPDATE: all artists now identified thanks to Peter Gray.

An anonymous comment left on my original post said that this series only ran for 3 issues and was exclusively produced for Tesco.

art by Gordon Bell

This is Tom Paterson

art by John Geering

Pink Panda art by Gordon Bell

Dolphin Annie art by John Geering

art by John Geering

art by Gordon Bell

Greenbug editor Brian Clarke confirms that it lasted only 3 issues

Here's the Greenbug costume

UPDATED: Tom Paterson print

An unusual spot on eBay a while ago - here's a print by Tom Paterson

I'd love to know if there are other prints that Tom has produced over the years. I loved his work as a kid so I'm always delighted to find it in unusual places.

and now another print has come to light (c/o ebay seller https://www.ebay.co.uk/usr/blondie72drinking - they have interesting stuff for sale so they're worth saving as a seller) - this time it's a Minnie the Minx print

Kapow - the art of making comics & film; original comic art, part 3

Currently on a the Rugby Art Museum & Gallery is Kapow - the art of making comics and film (more details here). If you've not yet been to this free exhibition here are just a few of the pages of original vintage British comics art that's on display...hurry, exhibition ends on 9th September!

I looked at vintage British comic art here

I looked at 2000AD / Dredd art here

Tom Paterson print

An unusual spot on eBay a while ago - here's a print by Tom Paterson

I'd love to know if there are other prints that Tom has produced over the years. I loved his work as a kid so I'm always delighted to find it in unusual places.

Tom Paterson original art for sale

I've chanced across an eBay seller with a couple of pieces of original comic art by (the always magnificent) Tom Paterson up for sale. 

The first is here - bids open at £450 for this 1987 Whizzer and Chips cover

The second is here and is a Bash Street strip from The Beano dated August 28th 2010 - bids open at £215

UPDATED: Fun and Games comic

This is not to be confused with Tesco fun 'n games (which I looked at here and here) but instead is a comic I know very little about. The comic is described thus by Comics International...New two-in-one comic: Fun reprints Fleetway's Frankiestein, Sweeny Toddler etc. Games is a 24 page cover-mounted supplement, 99p

This is the only image I can find of it online.

Cover art clearly by Tom Paterson. It's published by Nexus Media.

The first mention of Fun and Games in Comics International #79 (March 1997) where issues 3&4 are highlighted. The last mention in Comics International #93 - where issues 29 & 30 are highlighted. There may have been further issues but Comics International never mentions Fun and Games again.

Update

I've now acquired some more images...

Issue 1 with free gift

You can just about see (on the bottom left hand side) the wrap-around (cover-mounted) 'games' section. So, even if 'games' gets detached from the comic you'd still have the 'fun' section left looking like a regular comic.

Ah, here's a Claws reprint...

...and more Tom Paterson art on the back page.

The bottom half of Tom Paterson's art is obscured by the cover-mounted, wraparound 'games' section.

Lew Stringer has look at Fun and games on his blog here

Fun & Games comic

This is not to be confused with Tesco fun 'n games (which I looked at here and here) but instead is a comic I know very little about. The comic is described thus by Comics International...New two-in-one comic: Fun reprints Fleetway's Frankiestein, Sweeny Toddler etc. Games is a 24 page cover-mounted supplement, 99p

This is the only image I can find of it online

Cover art clearly by Tom Paterson. It's published by Nexus Media

The first mention of Fun and Games in Comics International #79 (March 1997) where issues 3&4 are highlighted. The last mention in Comics International #93 - where issues 29 & 30 are highlighted. There may have been further issues but Comics International never mentions Fun and Games again.

More humour art for sale

Continuing my trawl through the Book Palace website (here) for humour comic art of my childhood I stumble across these old friends...

http://bookpalace.com/acatalog/info_HansonBM6-6-87p1.html#SID=805
No matter how hard the Bumpkin Billionaires try to give away, spend or lose their huge football pools winnings, they always end up at least as rich if not more so by the end of the story.

The Bumpkin Billionaires was a British humorous comic strip which ran from 1974 until 2000. It was drawn by Mike Lacey throughout except for the last few years in Whizzer and Chips by Jim Hanson.

This TWO PAGE episode was published in Whizzer and Chips 6th June 1987 and is your for £125.

http://bookpalace.com/acatalog/info_HansonBB001.html#SID=805
Two pages of the original art. A complete two page episode of this hilarious comic strip which appeared in the Buster comic in 1986. £125

http://bookpalace.com/acatalog/info_BaveSS180787.html#SID=105
One page gag cartoon strip by Terry Bave, Sammy Shrink which appeared in Whizzer and Chips, 18th July 1987. £50.

http://bookpalace.com/acatalog/info_PatersonGapp1.html#SID=673
Our hysterical rapper get's more than he bargained for when he gets a part-time job in a bakery.

One page gag cartoon that appeared in Whizzer and Chips 17th September 1988. Note the art was cut in two between 2nd and 3rd row of panels in order to make it easier to post when the artist mailed it to the publisher. £95.