Lawless 2024 - the photos, part 4

Hard to believe it's another 8 months to Lawless, boo! While we're waiting for the time to pass here's part 4 of my photos from Lawless 2024. 

Part 1 (the artists) was here

Part 2 - 2000AD art was here

Part 3 - more 2000AD art was here

and now some vintage British comic art...

Quite a few war picture library covers...

John M Burns & Mike Noble (left hand side, middle panel)

Ron Embleton art

Ian Kennedy art for new Eagle (top); John Bolton for Warrior (bottom)

top - Ron Embleton

bottom - Brian Lewis art for Captain Condor (in Lion)

CI #128 - the Miracleman cover that never was

A recent Facebook chat took me down a Miracleman rabbit-hole recently...Suffice it to say the (first) cover below was used in the Diamond Previews catalogue cover BUT Todd McFarlane saw it and threatened to sue Comics International if it was used. So it wasn't used... 

...instead this was the cover that was used - you may recognise it as the cover (by Mick Austin) from Warrior #7 

The issue contains 5 pages all about Miracleman, including Mark Buckingham's original artwork for issue 25 which at that point was unpublished.

Here's the original chat...

Sequential Art - Will Simpson (2005)

I've looked before on the blog (here) at Will Simpson's work and I've looked before at comics exhibitions (here) so it's a pleasure to be able to draw these strands together and highlight some of Will's work that was exhibited back in 2005. All images are swiped from the catalogue that accompanied the exhibition at the Millennium Courts Art Centre

Atomeka - Bojeffries Terror Tome

A couple of recent purchases (and the death of Garry Leach) has spurred me on to look at Atomeka Press. A look at the Grand Comics database (here) is helpful (thanks for the images!) but incomplete. So, I thought I'd try and rustle up my own complete (?) list of Atomeka publications.

I've looked at the original A1 series (from 1989) here

The Epic comics anthology (from 1992) is here

A1 series (from 1992) is here

Damien Darke is here

Atomeka miscellany

A1 True life bikini confidential is here

Now, thanks to friend of the blog Reuben Willmott we can look at the publication that started me off down this particular rabbit-hole...Yes it's the Bojeffries Terror Tome...

Contents are as follows:

1). Bojeffries - Festus: dawn of the dead [script by Alan Moore; art by Steve Parkhouse]

2). Baby cakes [script by Neil Gaiman; art by Michael Zulli]

3). Mr Monster - monster museum [Michael Gilbert]

4). Hotwire DE [Steve Pugh]

5). The Proxy [script by Ramsey Campbell; art by David Lloyd; lettering by Bambos]

6). Eddy Current - prologue [Ted McKeever]

7). Scarecrow [Charles Vess]

8). Eddy Current - judgement [Ted McKeever]

9). Bojeffries - Song of the terraces [script by Alan Moore; art by Steve Parkhouse]

You'll probably receignised the cover as a recreation of an old Warrior cover...issue 12 to be precise

as editor Dave Elliott points out (see below) the art is by Garry Leach (albeit based on the original Steve Parkhouse cover)

if you look really hard you can spot some subtle differences between the pieces - the background here (below) is different, for instance 

And here's what the cover to issue #2 would have been...again art is by Garry Leach in a Steve Parkhouse style (which he totally nails!)

and here's that picture in colour - thanks Dave!

Dez Skinn's 'Warrior' volume 1

Inspired by a comment on episode 40 (here) of the 'Never iron anything' podcast - which was all about Dez Skinn's Warrior magazine - I thought I'd post up some details of his first Warrior...all are black & white, A4 size, have 1 or 2 pages of the particular story reprinted and are hard work to collect!  

Warrior, issue 1

Includes Wrath of the Gods by John M Burns, Kelpie - boy wizard by John M Burns, Erik the viking by Don Lawrence, Heros the Spartan by Frank Bellamy, Olac the gladiator by Don Lawrence and Black Axe - Saxon avenger by Tom Kerr.

Warrior, issue 2

Erik the viking by Don Lawrence, Thong by Steve Parkhouse, Wrath of the Gods by John M Burns, Heros the Spartan by Frank Bellamy, Kelpie - boy wizard by John M Burns, Black Axe - Saxon avenger by Tom Kerr and Olac the gladiator by Don Lawrence.

Warrior, issue 3 - cover by Barry (Windsor-)Smith

Erik the viking by Don Lawrence, Thong by Steve Parkhouse, Kelpie - boy wizard by John M Burns, Heros the Spartan by Frank Bellamy, Wrath of the Gods by John M Burns, Black Axe - Saxon avenger by Tom Kerr and Olac the gladiator by Don Lawrence.

Warrior, issue 4

Erik the viking by Don Lawrence, The knight from Nowhere by Eric Bradbury (script by Steve Moore), Thong by Steve Parkhouse, Heros the Spartan by Frank Bellamy, Kelpie - boy wizard by John M Burns, Wrath of the Gods by John M Burns and Olac the gladiator by Don Lawrence.

Warrior, issue 5 - cover by Angus McKie

Erik the viking by Don Lawrence, Thong by Steve Parkhouse, Olac the gladiator by Don Lawrence,  Heros the Spartan by Frank Bellamy, The mystic fountain (creators unknown) and Horatius - the hero of Rome (creators unknown).

Warrior, issue 6

Erik the viking by Don Lawrence, Swordspell by Angus McKie (script by Alan Booth) and Horatius - the hero of Rome (creators unknown).

Iconic Warrior cover up for sale

Heritage Comics have revealed that they have Mick Austin's iconic cover for Warrior #16 up for sale here

As they say...Alan Moore's "Marvelman" tales were all-new stories inspired by the UK's answer to the original Captain Marvel (when the reprint options on the originals ceased). Mick Austin's cover painting captures the magic and sparkle of this man-with-God-like-powers. When the stories were eventually reprinted here in the US, conflicts with Marvel (not DC) forced the change in the character's name to "Miracleman". This issue mistakenly gave cover credit to Steve Parkhouse, but it is clearly signed by Mick Austin in the lower left of the 12.5" x 17.5" gouache image area. Originally created in illustration board, it has since been "skimmed" off of the board. A bit of production tape in the margins, and some minor foxing in the left marginal edge. In Excellent condition. 

The auction runs 21-23 February and the opening bid is $1100 

Some Zarjaz Saturdays - part 2

If only I had a time machine...these sound great...

Warrior #0 - available now

Over on that facebook, here specifically (or just search for 'Warrior magazine') Dez Skinn has announced plans to print a limited edition* of Warrior #0...How it all came to be. A limited edition printing of the original mock-up dummy, produced in 1982, with a tad of 21st century enhancement.

Time to rush him some money people...

*quite how limited is unspecified