Glasgow Comic Art Convention - 1991

I've looked before (here) at the 1990s incarnation of the Glasgow Comic Art Convention (GCAC) that ran from 1990-5. I've been collecting the convention programmes for a long time and this was the final one I needed! I was very pleased to pick this up recently and I'm highlighting just some of the interior art. Good luck tracking down your own copy

Glasgow comic art convention 1991, Judge Dredd by Colin MacNeil

Glasgow comic art convention 1991, Dan Dare (& Digby) by David Pugh

Glasgow comic art convention 1991, DR & Quinch by Alan Davis

Glasgow comic art convention 1991, Judge Dredd by Will Simpson

Glasgow comic art convention 1991, Judge Dredd by Steve Yeowell

Glasgow comic art convention 1991, Wonderwoman by Brian Bolland

and here's a complete list of artists who created art for the souvenir programme

UPDATED: Nemesis the ride the comic

I'd love to have a copy of this comic in my collection - yes it's a tie-in comic for a theme park ride at Alton Towers! Of course it is.

All other Will Simpson mentions on the blog can be found here

All other advertising comics mentioned on the blog can be found here

These are expensive to buy!

and finally we have some shots of the interior artwork (and a list of creator credits, whoop!)

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

2000ad subscriber gifts

Occasionally on eBay you can find examples of the subscriber gifts that 2000AD have produced and it occurred to me that I'd be interested in knowing what all the gifts were. This is what I've found so far...any help filling in any of the blanks is very welcome.

2011 subscribers gifts from 2000AD

I've seen this described on ebay as an exclusive for subscribers but the book doesn't appear to mention this in any way.

A 200AD subscriber exclusive gift - in unique ‘B-Format’ (19.5cm x 12.5cm) - 128 pages of Future Shocks. Contains a great many formerly un-reprinted works by the likes of Brian Bolland, Massimo Belardinelli and Kevin O’Neil. The stories have been reproduced beautifully with crisp B&W artwork. .

Contents:

• FS 4 – Wings (Kev O’Neill),
• FS 5 – Just Like Home (Peter Harris, Ron Turner)
• FS 7 – A Promised Land (unknown / Horacio Lalia)
• FS 9 – Fangs (Chris Lowder, Carlos Ezquerra)
• FS 11 – Play Pool (Kelvin Gosnell, Kevin O’Neill)
• FS 13 – Space Prospector (Martin Lock, Trevor Goring)
• FS 14 – The Runts (Steve Moore, Pat Wright),
• FS 15 – Time Past (Martin Lock, Jose Luis Ferrer),
• FS 17 – Time Was (Martin Lock, Ramon Sola)
• FS 18 – Enemy Agent (Nick Tufnell, John Cooper)
• FS 19 – Substitute (Robert Flynn, Giorgi)
• FS 21 – The Guardian (Mike Cruden, John Cooper),
• FS 23 – Solo Flip (Chris Lowder, Brian Bolland),
• FS 25 – Stasis (Charles Swift, Brendan McCarthy, Brett Ewins),
• FS 26 – Space Bug (V Wernham, Jose Luis Ferrer),
• FS 27 – Monkey (Alan Hebden, Mugallanes),
• FS 29 – Tin Can (Mike Cruden, Jose Luis Ferrer),
• FS 30 – Timeless Secret (SJ Grimes, Ramon Sola),
• FS 33 – Dead Hit (Robert Flynn, Pierre Frisano),
• FS 34 – The Illusion Man (Martin Lock, Pierre Frisano),
• FS 36 – Nothing On Earth (Chris Lowder, Pierre Frisano),
• FS 37 – Breaking Out (Jan Garczynski, Carlos Pino),
• FS 41 – The Fourth Wall (Mike Cruden, John Cooper),
• FS 43 – Date With Destiny (Mike Curden, Massimo Belardinelli),
• FS 47 – Cold Kill (Mike Cruden, Garry Leach),
• FS 50 – Dear Mum (John Richardson),
• FS 55 – Colin’s Dream (Chris Stevens, Massimo Belardinelli),
• FS 56 – Hand of Friendship (John Richardson)

2018 subscribers gift from 2000AD - Cam Kennedy

2018 subscribers gift from 2000AD - John Higgins

2019 subscribers gifts from 2000AD

2020 subscribers gifts from 2000AD

2021 subscribers gifts from 2000AD

2022 subscribers gifts from 2000AD

Nemesis the ride the comic

I'd love to have a copy of this comic in my collection - yes it's a tie-in comic for a theme park ride at Alton Towers! Of course it is.

All other Will Simpson mentions on the blog can be found here

All other advertising comics mentioned on the blog can be found here

These are expensive to buy!

UPDATED: 'Centurions' covers by Will Simpson

A recent trip to #LFCC gave me the chance to talk to artist Will Simpson about some of his early comics covers for Centurions Power Xtreme that I thought he'd done but which were unsigned. I've updated my notes below - all new posts are thus

For anyone who enjoyed the cover of last week's 2000ad by Will Simpson I thought I'd just highlight some of his earlier cover artwork for a TV cartoon series toy line tie-in comic...yes, it's '80s comic series Centurions Power Xtreme - surely you remember it?

Centurions Power Xtreme - issue 2, cover by Will Simpson
no signature present on the printed cover but he's kindly signed my copy with a Sharpie!

Centurions Power Xtreme - issue 3, cover by Will Simpson

Centurions Power Xtreme - issue 4, cover by Will Simpson
no signature present on the printed cover but he's kindly signed my copy with a Sharpie!

Centurions Power Xtreme - issue 5, cover by Will Simpson

Centurions Power Xtreme - issue 6, cover by Will Simpson

Centurions Power Xtreme - issue 7, cover by Will Simpson
no signature present on the printed cover but he's kindly signed my copy with a Sharpie!

Centurions Power Xtreme - issue 8, cover by Will Simpson

Centurions Power Xtreme - issue 9, cover by Will Simpson

Published by London Editions the series ran for just 10 issue. He also confirmed that he didn't draw the covers for issues 1 or 10 (but we now know that he did do the covers for issue 2-9).

I think Will illustrated more than just the covers above but these were the only covers he signed.

DNA Swamp #2

I looked here at issue #1 (of 3) at 1997's DNA Swamp comic. I recently acquired a copy of issue 2. It's A4 sized, 52 pages, black & white throughout (apart from the covers and centre pages). 

Highlights are as follows...

Cover by Philip Blythe

There's a 4 page (plus this cover) interview with Frank Quitely (note that the pages are printed in the wrong order). A fun interview nonetheless. 

Alan Grant provides 2 pages on his tips on writing for comic strips.

PJ Holden provides the art for the Witchunter strip

Here's a picture from the launch party - picture left to right are...Glenn Fabry, Alan Grant, Christian Kotey, Frank Quitely & Will Simpson 

For all other mentions on the blog for Glenn Fabry click here

For all other mentions on the blog for Alan Grant click here

For all other mentions on the blog for Frank Quitely click here

For all other mentions on the blog for Will Simpson click here