UPDATED: Glasgow comic art convention, 1990-95

I've recently look at a lot at the various programmes produced to tie-in with various comic conventions...

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

Updated: Glasgow Comic Art Convention 1991 brochure added to the listing

...and today it's the turn of The Glasgow comic art convention (GCAC), which ran from 1990-95...I've included the listing of all those that contribute pin-ups to these programmes. These are great and well worth tracking down.

Glasgow comic art convention, 1990, A4, 68 pages, cover art by Ian Gibson

Glasgow comic art convention, 1991, A4, 68 pages, cover art by Colin MacNeil

Glasgow comic art convention, 1992, A4, 68 pages, cover art by Jamie Hewlett

 Glasgow comic art convention, 1993, A4, 72 pages, cover by Steve Pugh

Glasgow comic art convention, 1994, A5, 64 pages, cover by Mark Buckingham

Glasgow comic art convention, 1995, A5, 16 pages, cover by Steve Yeowell

interior art by Thomas Creilly, Darryl Cunningham, Craig Dixon, Mike Hadley, Robert McCallum, Jim O'Reday and Frank Quitely

UPDATED: Comic Speculator News (1992-94)

I've now added in covers for issues 12, 13 & 15 for this update

Inspired by episode 342 of the Awesome Comics Podcast (check it out here) I thought I'd remind myself of the '90s speculator boom nonsense by pulling together my issues of the British answer to Wizard that was Comic speculator news. It lasted 13 issues in total, here's what you missed...

Comic Speculator News promo issue

not to hand - do you have a copy?

Comic Speculator News issue 0, December 1992

looks like it's been run off on a photocopier - single sided photocopying at its best!

Comic speculator news #1, February 1993

Comic speculator news #1, February 1993

All the issue have front & back covers that look like front covers - I'll include them here to avoid (?) confusion. A4 sized, 48 pages, black & white throughout

Comic speculator news #2, April 1993

Comic speculator news #2, April 1993

A4 sized, 48 pages, black & white throughout

Comic speculator news #3, May 1993

Comic speculator news #3, May 1993

I can't recall what this is referencing
A4 sized, 48 pages, black & white throughout

Comic speculator news #4, June 1993

Comic speculator news #4, June 1993

A4 sized, 48 pages, black & white throughout

Comic speculator news #5, July 1993

Comic speculator news #5, July 1993

A4 sized, 48 pages, black & white throughout

Comic speculator news #6, August 1993

Comic speculator news #6, August 1993

A4 sized, 48 pages, black & white throughout

Comic speculator news #7, September 1993

A4 sized, 48 pages, black & white throughout (apart from the covers)

Comic speculator news #8, October 1993

A4 sized, 48 pages, black & white throughout

Comic speculator news #9, November 1993

A4 sized, 48 pages, black & white throughout

Comic speculator news #10, November 1993

A4 sized, 48 pages, black & white throughout

Comic speculator news #11, January 1994

A4 sized, 48 pages, black & white throughout

Comic speculator news #12, February 1994

it then seems to have undergone a name change to... 

Comic News #13, March 1994

it's now free (rather than 55p). It COULD have been an entirely separate title but I reckon that if issue #12 of CSN came out in Feb 1994 and this is issue #13 and is dated March 1994 then I reckon it's the same publication.

Comic News #14, April 1994

cover not to hand - can you help??

Comic News #15, May 1994

Martin & Hazel Trouse

My look at comic reference books has, to date, covered a number of authors such as...

i). Dennis Gifford books here (with all Gifford posts here)

ii). Lofts & Adley books are here

iii). Dennis Gifford is here 

iv). David Ashford is here

v). Ray Moore is here

vi). Martin Hamer is here

vii). Colin Morgan is here

vii). Alan Clark is here

viii). Norman Wright is here

ix). Tony Summerfield is here

Next up are a couple about whom I know nothing other than the fact that they published this partial index (55 pages long) of The Wizard, 1944-1963 in 1994. The Wizard was first published dated 23rd September 1923 so this covers the 2nd half of its forty year life. 

If anyone knows aything more about them or knows of any other books they wrote I'd be delighted to add to this post 

Weird city - Glenn Fabry cover

Here's a Glenn Fabry rarity. I can't find any other examples of issue of Weird City so I've no idea how many more issues were published.

Image c/o the ebay store of Kev Sutherland

Total Carnage (1993-4)

I've looked at a few Dark Horse International titles over the years...

Jurassic Park here

Star Wars featuring Indiana Jones here

Max Overload! #1 here

Max Overload! #2 here

Alien 3 movie special here

...and today it's the turn of the short-run title Total Carnage - 10 issues from 1993-4

Total Carnage, issue 1, April 1993, Dark Horse International, £1.50

Total Carnage, issue 2, May 1993, Dark Horse International, £1.50

Total Carnage, issue 3, June 1993, Dark Horse International, £1.50

Total Carnage, issue 4, July 1993, Dark Horse International, £1.50

Total Carnage, issue 5, August 1993, Dark Horse International, £1.50

Total Carnage, issue 6, September 1993, Dark Horse International, £1.50

Total Carnage, issue 7, October 1993, Dark Horse International, £1.50

Total Carnage, issue 8, November 1993, Dark Horse International, £1.50

Total Carnage, issue 9, December 1993, Dark Horse International, £1.50

Total Carnage, issue 10, January 1994, Dark Horse International, £1.50