UPDATED: Nostalgia & Comics

My post the other day about the adverts for Dark they were and golden eyed (here) made me think about comics advertising for other shops...and then boom! this pops up on eBay. 

It's for sale here and is Trevor Goring's original artwork for  Birmingham's Nostalgia & Comics shop. I'd love to see other adverts for the shop.

Update (Mar 2026) I recently came across this advert in Escape #15 (May 1989). I'm assuming the signature 'Ormston' is that of comics artist Dean Ormston.

Update: the last post produced further examples of adverts so I'm just adding them to the post...

Lew Stringer sent me this

this was also c/o Lew

as was this - the first mention of the shop (in Comic Media News)

this was from Mark Warby

Update: friend of the blog Sam Farnworth has provided this image by artist Simon Parkes. Thanks! Plus I've found a Hunt Emerson advert.

this advert is taken from Alter Image #4 (November 1987)

UPDATED: Nostalgia & Comics

My post the other day about the adverts for Dark they were and golden eyed (here) made me think about comics advertising for other shops...and then boom! this pops up on eBay. 

It's for sale here and is Trevor Goring's original artwork for  Birmingham's Nostalgia & Comics shop. I'd love to see other adverts for the shop.

Update: the last post produced further examples of adverts so I'm just adding them to the post...

Lew Stringer sent me this

this was also c/o Lew

as was this - the first mention of the shop (in Comic Media News)

this was from Mark Warby

Update: friend of the blog Sam Farnworth has provided this image by artist Simon Parkes. Thanks! Plus I've found a Hunt Emerson advert.

this advert is taken from Alter Image #4 (November 1987)

Updated: Nostalgia & Comics

My post the other day about the adverts for Dark they were and golden eyed (here) made me think about comics advertising for other shops...and then boom! this pops up on eBay. 

It's for sale here and is Trevor Goring's original artwork for  Birmingham's Nostalgia & Comics shop. I'd love to see other adverts for the shop.

Update: friend of the blog Sam Farnworth has provided this image by artist Simon Parkes. Thanks! Plus I've found a Hunt Emerson advert.

this advert is taken from Alter Image #4 (November 1987)

Trevor Goring - Nostalgia & Comics

My post the other day about the adverts for Dark they were and golden eyed (here) made me think about comics advertising for other shops...and then boom! this pops up on eBay. 

It's for sale here and is Trevor Goring's original artwork for  Birmingham's Nostalgia & Comics shop. I'd love to see other adverts for the shop.

UPDATED: British comic conventions, 1970-1976

I've looked at a whole lot of comic conventions previously...

Bristol comic expo (2004-2014) is here

London comic festival 2003 is here
Kev Sutherland festival original art is here
A 'Lawless 2019' miscellany is here
Boys and Girls exhibitions of the 1950s and '60s is here
Glasgow comic art convention is here
Edinburgh art convention is here
Hi-Ex convention is here

UKCAC - part 1 - is here
UKCAC - part 2 - is here

UKCAC - part 3 - is here

BICS convention is here

Glasgow comic con is here 

Kapow! con is here

So now we're on the final 'lap' of this series and so it's back to the dim and distant past with a look at some of the very earliest comic conventions...

Now updated with some images of the 1975 convention programme

1970 comic convention, Sheffield, cover art by Simpson

Interior art by Trevor Goring, Mike Higgs, Fletcher. Nearly A5 sized, 8 pages.

1971 comic convention, London, cover art by Dave Gibbons

Interior art by Mike Higgs, Paul Neary, Dave Gibbons, Jim Baikie. 16 pages, slightly larger than A5 size.

1972 comic convention, London, cover art is uncredited

Interior art by Kev O'Neill, Mike Higgs, Dave Gibbons. A5 sized, 32 pages.

1973 comic convention, London

no souvenir programme produced

1974 comic convention, London

no souvenir programme produced

1975 comic convention, London

1976 comic convention, London, cover by Trevor Goring

Interior art by Martin Asbury, Brian Bolland, John Bolton, John Burns, Ron Embleton, Hunt Emerson, Trev Goring, Dave Gibbons, Denis Gifford, Frank Hampson, Mike Higgs, Brian Lewis, Steve Mitchell, Paul Milliner, Paul Neary, Kevin O'Neill, John Romita Sr, Ken Simpson, Barry (Windsor-)Smith. A5 sized, 44 pages.

MACH1 art from prog 3 up for sale - ends today!

Having reported here on some very early MACH1 pages (from prog 4)  sell for £1,287 recently I see that the same seller has 2 more pages of original art up for sale...

I've only just spotted some very early MACH1 art from 2000AD that's up for sale. Both these pages end in the early evening tonight (Sunday 24th October).

First up is this page by Massimo Belardinelli from prog 3 (12th March 1977) - a very dynamic image of John Probe diving into the water. 

At the time of typing bids are at £410 - I reckon this will go for a lot more.

Boom! sells for £1,200

The 2nd piece can be found here and is taken from the 1978 2000AD sci-fi special - art is by Trevor Goring. At the time of typing the price has been up to £82

Boom! sells for £208.83

Death race 2020

Reading a 1990s comic fanzine the other day I saw a series mentioned that I hadn't come across before - it's "Death Race 2020" and was published by (film director) Roger Corman's Cosmic comic imprint.

The reason the series caught my eye was the names of the creators involved - Pat Mills, Kev O'Neill, Tony Skinner (plus Trevor Goring & Shane Oakley).

So, to start the day, let's have a comics adaptation of a Roger Corman movie with (quite) a few covers by the inimitable Kevin O'Neill...

Death Race 2020 #1 (published by Cosmic comics, April 1995), cover by Kevin O'Neill

Death Race 2020 #2 (published by Cosmic comics, May 1995), cover by Kevin O'Neill

Death Race 2020 #3 (published by Cosmic comics, June 1995), cover by Kevin O'Neill

Death Race 2020 #4 (published by Cosmic comics, July 1995), cover by Trevor Goring

Death Race 2020 #5 (published by Cosmic comics, August 1995), cover by Stanislas Manoukian & Vincent Roucher

Death Race 2020 #6 (published by Cosmic comics, September 1995), cover by Trevor Goring & Ashley Underwood

Death Race 2020 #7 (published by Cosmic comics, October 1995), cover by Gene Fama

Death Race 2020 #8 (published by Cosmic comics, November 1996), cover by Kevin O'Neill

All images taken from the https://www.comics.org/ - thanks

British comic conventions, 1970-1976

I've looked at a whole lot of comic conventions previously...

Bristol comic expo (2004-2014) is here

London comic festival 2003 is here
Kev Sutherland festival original art is here
A 'Lawless 2019' miscellany is here
Boys and Girls exhibitions of the 1950s and '60s is here
Glasgow comic art convention is here
Edinburgh art convention is here
Hi-Ex convention is here

UKCAC - part 1 - is here
UKCAC - part 2 - is here

UKCAC - part 3 - is here

BICS convention is here

Glasgow comic con is here 

Kapow! con is here

So now we're on the final 'lap' of this series and so it's back to the dim and distant past with a look at some of the very earliest comic conventions...

1970 comic convention, Sheffield, cover art by Simpson

Interior art by Trevor Goring, Mike Higgs, Fletcher. Nearly A5 sized, 8 pages.

1971 comic convention, London, cover art by Dave Gibbons

Interior art by Mike Higgs, Paul Neary, Dave Gibbons, Jim Baikie. 16 pages, slightly larger than A5 size.

1972 comic convention, London, cover art is uncredited

Interior art by Kev O'Neill, Mike Higgs, Dave Gibbons. A5 sized, 32 pages.

1973 comic convention, London

no souvenir programme produced

1974 comic convention, London

no souvenir programme produced

1975 comic convention, London

no souvenir programme to hand - can you help?

1976 comic convention, London, cover by Trevor Goring

Interior art by Martin Asbury, Brian Bolland, John Bolton, John Burns, Ron Embleton, Hunt Emerson, Trev Goring, Dave Gibbons, Denis Gifford, Frank Hampson, Mike Higgs, Brian Lewis, Steve Mitchell, Paul Milliner, Paul Neary, Kevin O'Neill, John Romita Sr, Ken Simpson, Barry (Windsor-)Smith. A5 sized, 44 pages.