tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38160757559025553782024-02-20T06:58:41.312+00:00Cloud 109Manga'esque comic strip/ graphic novel devoted to the adventures of three teenagers, Cary, Gina and Rabby whose dystopic and dysfunctional existence is alleviated via their online exploits in the cyber world of Cloud 109.Peter Richardsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15566601617123798061noreply@blogger.comBlogger427125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816075755902555378.post-84588132124298855802014-08-03T12:45:00.001+01:002014-08-03T12:45:10.872+01:00Wallace Wood and the Art of Self Promotion<br />
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Now come the time for a little competition—the winner of which will receive an A3 signed print on quality matte art paper of this little meisterpiece (comes mailed in a sturdy cardboard tube to the address of your current domicile).<br />But to find the question you need to answer you must journey over to my new blog—so click <a href="http://www.peter-richardson-illustration.com/blog/4585858137" target="_blank">here </a>and all will be revealed!<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Peter Richardsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15566601617123798061noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816075755902555378.post-44602295925077604652014-05-26T22:43:00.001+01:002014-05-26T22:43:27.663+01:00More of the Nerdmeister and his Pink GuruHere are a few more images of Boffin Boy and his pink and spiky sidekick Wu Pee. One of the benefits of working with small publishers such as Ransom Publishing who produce the fabulous Boffin Boy series, is that work is not subject to death by committee. Which means that you get to have fun with ideas and not have to worry about endless re-draws:<br />
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<br />Peter Richardsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15566601617123798061noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816075755902555378.post-59477873060555120782014-05-18T12:20:00.003+01:002014-05-18T12:22:17.633+01:00The 14 Year Old Dweeb and a Runty Oriental SageI first encountered the wonderfully weird world of Boffin Boy some eight years ago when I received a manuscript from Ransom Publishing about a delightfully nerdy and bespectacled geek called Boffin Boy and his runty oriental sage and mystic pal, Wu-Pee, who was going to save the world from a host of hideous menaces including, Monsters From Outer Space, Killer Bees, Ninja Assassins, Man Eating Sharks, Giant Robots, Death Worms, Poison Gardens, Floating Brains and a star studded cast of recurring villains such as 'Red Wolf', 'The Wizard of Edo', 'Doctor Daffney', 'Mogon the Mighty' and 'The Red Wolf'.<br />
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Written by the supremely talented David Orme, the script were a delight to work on—an inspirational blend of the absurd and surreal underpinned by David's strong characterization and his wry sense of humor. <br />
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When I commenced work on the first series of six books, I was still cutting my teeth in the relatively unfamiliar world of vector drawing. I had tired of working in Photoshop and craved something a bit less intuitive and a bit more graphic—Adobe's (perfectly monickered) Illustrator seemed the ideal way to go.<br />
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The job was created at breakneck speed (anything up to five images a day) and by the end of the work I knew a hell of a lot more about Illustrator than I did when I commenced.<br />
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Now into it's third series of books, Boffin Boy has once again been selected for the 'Book Buzz List' and has also been nominated for a Kate Greenaway Award and is on 'The Times Top 160 Books for Boys'.<br />
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It's good to know the stupidity is spreading.<br />
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<br />Peter Richardsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15566601617123798061noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816075755902555378.post-74060286853751086172013-09-20T18:47:00.000+01:002013-09-21T14:51:32.233+01:00Heros The Spartan—A Peek InsideA week ago I posted that advance copies of the eagerly awaited 'Frank Bellamy's Heros the Spartan' had arrived at Book Palace Books HQ. Having shared the photos of the book's covers that we received from our printer, we have been looking forward to sharing with you some of the contents of this publication and that moment has now arrived.<br />
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Both editions of this book are a delight to hold, the smell and feel of the matte archival paper makes leafing through the book a real pleasure. The sewn binding again just exudes quality and means that the book will open and reveal all of the pages right into the gutter. This is something which other books attempting to reprint spreads from UK comics have often made problematic, with crucial dialogue and artwork often becoming irretrievably lost in the process. In the case of 'Heros', our printers Prolong Press, went to extraordinary lengths to ensure that the signatures of pages butted up cleanly and precisely with each other so that all of this extraordinary strip was visible to the reader.<br />
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As regards the print quality, I am pleased to say that the weeks of painstaking restoration work has been really well realized by virtue of superb repro from our restorations and the matte archival paper ensures that not one line of Bellamy's pen work has been obscured in the process as these close-up photos reveal.<br />
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The penultimate photo shows one of the 11 original boards that
appears in the sumptuously bound red leather edition with gold blocking,
of which there are only 120 copies. <br />
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I won't witter on any more about these books, other than to say, that we feel that this book is the best book we have produced so far and response to it has been tremendously positive with over half the entire print run sold before publication day. On the subject of which, we had another notification from our printer to say that we could expect to take receipt of these books on 15th October, they are still at sea but getting ever closer to these shores.<br />
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Here again are the links if you would like to order copies of the book:<br />
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More pictures can be seen on the Marvel Masterworks Fan Site:<br />
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http://marvelmasterworksfansite.yuku.com/topic/15660/master/1/?page=5#.Uj2iu7ztPRUPeter Richardsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15566601617123798061noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816075755902555378.post-54314200006436389072013-09-10T20:03:00.002+01:002013-09-10T20:14:33.797+01:00The First Photos of Book Palace Books 'Frank Bellamy's Heros the Spartan'I am delighted to say that we have just received these mouth watering photos of the long awaited Heros, direct from our printer in far away China:<br />
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They are sending out two copies of each book via FedEx tomorrow so
that by next week when we have received them, we should be able to post
more photos, including the insides.<br />
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The main consignment is scheduled to arrive at Book Palace HQ on October 10th.<br />
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The waiting is nearly over and many thanks for you support and forbearance, whilst we fine tuned this epic production.<br />
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Here's the link if you feel the urge to place an order, we have already pre-sold a sizeable chunk of the print run. <br />
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The regular edition is limited to a print run of 600 whilst the leather edition is 120:<br />
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making any further announcements about the eagerly awaited Book Palace
Books edition of 'Frank Bellamy's Heros the Spartan'. But I am pleased
to be able to say that the problems our printer was experiencing with
certain aspects of the production of the leather edition of this
monster book have now been resolved to everybody's satisfaction and
barring typhoons, tsunamis, krakens or Somali pirates the container
vessel with several palettes of 'Heros' will be arriving on these
shores early next month and is slated to arrive at Book Palace HQ on
October 10th.<br />
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while we are on the subject of 'Heros', I thought I would share with
you some of the restorative work that went into preparing the scans we
made of the original comics ready for publication.<br />
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Although the firm of Eric Bemrose who printed the <i>Eagle</i>
and all of Bellamy's work on 'Heros' were rightly regarded as being the
best in the business when it came to printing photo gravure comics and
periodicals, they did slip up from time to time and aside from the ever
present problem of out of register colour pages, some of their work
towards the latter part of 'Heros' run did suffer a bit as can be seen
in these examples, where in the spread that occurs near the start of
'The Axe of Arguth', you can see that the colours have over saturated
(particularly the yellow) to the point where a lot of Bellamy's line
work is getting obscured by the resultant murk. If you look at the close
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What
we had to do was to haul back a bit on the colour and where detail had
been lost, carefully select the black line and create a separate layer
for the line so that the art could be successfully restored and
Bellamy's work seen as he intended it.<br />
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Similarly
later in the same story there is a sequence where over printing of
black has created a rich and dense black as the artist would have
intended, but where there is no over printing the black appears greyed
out. Again we had to carefully select the affected areas and reintroduce
the missing elements to make the black as rich as intended, thereby
removing the distracting patchiness which is particularly evident on the
detail of Heros in extremis.<br />
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won't bore you by showing you all the stages of the restoration
involved in each of the spreads but this epic comic strip is, we
believe, worthy of this attention to detail.<br />
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Sometimes the best endeavors are worth the extra wait.Peter Richardsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15566601617123798061noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816075755902555378.post-32997468079959560952013-06-05T15:52:00.001+01:002013-06-05T21:54:21.198+01:00Heros The Spartan—Proof Positive!!!We have now reached that very exciting moment with Book Palace Book's
epic 'Heros The Spartan' project, when we finally have a first glimpse
at the printed proofs of what the team have been working on for the last
eighteen months.<br />
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There is a lot of careful checking to
be done, but the printed pages are looking nothing short of stunning,
with razor sharp repro of the scanned 'Heros' pages looking every bit as
vibrant as the day the were first published in the <i>Eagle</i> some fifty years ago.<br />
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week we should be receiving the mock-ups of the leather slip-cased
edition, which crams in an extra 24 pages scanned from the original art
in a sumptuous leather binding, but for now our energies are focused on
any last minute tweaks that need to be made to ensure that this
gi-normous book (each spread of 'Heros' is reproduced at the same size
as the comic was printed) is as perfect as it deserves to be.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgf9RVr9A_GUcCWjHvwyQJIX278kCQt3H0188GOaQWEnzPVBXhrFFukSipUtkjAoPdyRYP0OxHPUPBwkLIZFU0bsWJzu6wdk41VzQugExUhq94Q8YZRwjJ9uDyM0L2_IPM-DcZhzGXwH1Oa/s1600/IMG_2098.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgf9RVr9A_GUcCWjHvwyQJIX278kCQt3H0188GOaQWEnzPVBXhrFFukSipUtkjAoPdyRYP0OxHPUPBwkLIZFU0bsWJzu6wdk41VzQugExUhq94Q8YZRwjJ9uDyM0L2_IPM-DcZhzGXwH1Oa/s320/IMG_2098.jpg" width="320" /></a>This
had been a tremendous undertaking and we have had a lot of help from
dedicated Bellamy collectors from around the globe. The introductory
chapters, which feature Dez Skinn and Dave Gibbons interview with the
great man (many thanks to both Dez and Dave), also include mouthwatering
reproductions of key examples of Bellamy artwork, which are largely
sourced from high resolution scans and add an extra zing to the whole
production.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhc_9oacPo9z8E9N_S-fs_ly-jIg9sPMkaapIDiwvnl5Ii_zfHcXzGg0uAQVNT5r0CFt86Wpu0HQjE9G-6-krOnUL4cWNroXPua4QUNQLMFvnLZt7ipd8ZkDP5_aS-ER0Rmprvs18FlPvTd/s1600/IMG_2104.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhc_9oacPo9z8E9N_S-fs_ly-jIg9sPMkaapIDiwvnl5Ii_zfHcXzGg0uAQVNT5r0CFt86Wpu0HQjE9G-6-krOnUL4cWNroXPua4QUNQLMFvnLZt7ipd8ZkDP5_aS-ER0Rmprvs18FlPvTd/s320/IMG_2104.jpg" width="320" /></a>The
location of Bellamy Heros originals was as problematic as can be
anticipated with artwork of this vintage. The search was ongoing
throughout the eighteen months that this project occupied us and we did
manage to unearth a lot of Heros artwork that had remained unseen for
decades. One of the spreads high on our list was, of course, the famous
massacre of the fifth legion, which was one of the strip's many high
spots in terms of artistry. We did locate the spread in question, but
the collector had the artwork framed and was extremely reluctant to let
us near it, let alone prize it out of it's frame. After a lot of
pleading, he did provide us with a photo which captures the main action
of the scene and which was good enough to run in the book, we would have
loved a razor sharp scan of the entire spread, but we were really
pleased to be able to reproduce at least a sizeable chunk of the artwork
and at the same time we managed to locate another three spreads which
again have added a lot of extra lustre to what is already a very
desirable book.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJEKK4O3HE3ub2yu-SlKBfqOmyDrQUmuv-HfGld18MWhKxXngjAxbTY6vI0shRrn5VP8JXHROI5jI5ejl23D8KezYETJSgNrN75hmMdo7oS05FSmC8vF6KYSRotgAZFuakGuyyjysBeRJr/s1600/IMG_2105.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJEKK4O3HE3ub2yu-SlKBfqOmyDrQUmuv-HfGld18MWhKxXngjAxbTY6vI0shRrn5VP8JXHROI5jI5ejl23D8KezYETJSgNrN75hmMdo7oS05FSmC8vF6KYSRotgAZFuakGuyyjysBeRJr/s320/IMG_2105.jpg" width="320" /></a>This
is without doubt, the most ambitious project that Book Palace Books has
invested in, and the production costs reflect this. It is, therefore
doubly, heartening to see such a healthy demand from people who are
determined to ensure that they don't miss out on what is a very limited
print run (600 copies of the regular edition and 120 copies of the
numbered leather edition), to the extent that the sheer volume of
pre-publication orders we have received have just about cleared our
production costs.<br />
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to all of you who have pre-ordered and all of you who have helped in
our quest to make this the ultimate tribute to the incredible artistry
of Frank Bellamy—a very big thank you.<br />
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<br />Peter Richardsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15566601617123798061noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816075755902555378.post-8890246898883937202013-01-27T21:20:00.002+00:002013-01-29T16:21:31.888+00:00Of Heros, Illustrators and Sundry Other Doings<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRKwWfq_leaYE5arjG88SuFGZES-_Hx685GOff0m1GAOlLCrXwamayg7PBATK7rgeYHFpvNNM0AYAr-mxan7jzuuHxFxTjtlqOezS_cx0sOiDzy75T9N_FIaRYSOXXp2iDc5dN79LkFroF/s1600/IllustratorsWrightCover.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRKwWfq_leaYE5arjG88SuFGZES-_Hx685GOff0m1GAOlLCrXwamayg7PBATK7rgeYHFpvNNM0AYAr-mxan7jzuuHxFxTjtlqOezS_cx0sOiDzy75T9N_FIaRYSOXXp2iDc5dN79LkFroF/s320/IllustratorsWrightCover.jpg" width="246" /></a>Firstly, I must apologize for the overlong absence of a new posting on this dear old blog of mine. But work, work, work - much of which, in a somewhat ironic fashion, emanates from this blog. Insofar as my blogging activities have led me (at the behest of the Svengali - like Geoff West and his assemblage of Elven executives - aka the good people at the Book Palace) to commit my enthusiasms to the printed page.<br />
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Meanwhile as Steve Holland has already flagged up on the <a href="http://bookpalacebooks.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/illustrators-2-in-review.html" target="_blank">Book Palace Blog</a>, issue 2 of <b><i>illustrators </i></b>is now out and is regarded by everyone that has got back to us, as even stronger than issue 1, not that we are in any way ashamed of issue 1, as in all these exercises, we are on a steep learning curve and there is always room for improvement, particularly in the early stages of a project such as this.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9kNzB4svlVdmXfizRtGhdTuxpxIQZBUNtlwgYjPlFbmN1Z3qnKt5-vuaYyo_v9-OAKErt4TDf8FxNTEZAZMA2H3559LUYh23DShYoP_qUOQuKUd7KH56d8QmuBERNj9SJmJ30wMNyzeYf/s1600/HerosRegCoverFullColor.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="203" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9kNzB4svlVdmXfizRtGhdTuxpxIQZBUNtlwgYjPlFbmN1Z3qnKt5-vuaYyo_v9-OAKErt4TDf8FxNTEZAZMA2H3559LUYh23DShYoP_qUOQuKUd7KH56d8QmuBERNj9SJmJ30wMNyzeYf/s320/HerosRegCoverFullColor.jpg" width="320" /></a><b><i>Heros</i></b>, I am pleased to say, is now very close to completion, we are just finalizing some of the additional images to be included in the leather edition (second of the two cover images) and adding a few captions to the introductory section of the book - all other work is now complete - phew!!!<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-w7oJY8TqxjniWuxcMb-3ARfYe4g3g3af-3a3k2WV2nGMvEeAeK0Fd1kneu6X2Yge-qOHxRH-YD-uOll4oEZ23yACyC4HxYaDrYAme9gTUCM1qvuHIHVktBq-F7CKsESqjNAYRbg_Rg0f/s1600/HerosLeather3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="202" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-w7oJY8TqxjniWuxcMb-3ARfYe4g3g3af-3a3k2WV2nGMvEeAeK0Fd1kneu6X2Yge-qOHxRH-YD-uOll4oEZ23yACyC4HxYaDrYAme9gTUCM1qvuHIHVktBq-F7CKsESqjNAYRbg_Rg0f/s320/HerosLeather3.jpg" width="320" /></a>Lastly, but by no means leastly, Book Place Books are taking a stand at the Science Museum hosted <a href="http://www.watercoloursfair.com/public/" target="_blank">Works on Paper</a> Art Show, which is running from this Wednesday 31st January from 2.00 pm - 9.00 pm and then from Thursday 11.00 am - 9.00 pm and then Friday 11.00 am - 8.00 pm, Saturday 11.00 am - 6.00 pm and finally Sunday 11.00 am - 6.00 pm. Tickets for two can be obtained free by visiting the <a href="http://illustrationartgallery.com/IllustrationArtGallery.jpg" target="_blank">Book Palace Website</a>. This show is a real delight and is an essential visit for all collectors and enthusiasts of illustration and artwork for books, comic strips, newspaper strips and all aspects of illustration in it's widest sense.Peter Richardsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15566601617123798061noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816075755902555378.post-54490797969676107842012-11-02T21:14:00.000+00:002012-11-02T21:20:20.495+00:00Heros' Galley Sails Closer...I've got to the stage where it's no longer worth apologizing for the erratic nature of recent blog postings. Work, work, work... it is a constant imperative, but the good news is much of it is aimed at the very constituency that this blog addresses itself to.<br />
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We are busily working on <i><b>illustrators</b></i> 3 and 4 and when that isn't taking up my time, there is <b>Book Palace Books</b> forthcoming ultimate <i><b>Frank Bellamy Heros the Spartan</b></i> collection, which is starting to take shape.<br />
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As we have previously revealed, we took the decision to reproduce the <i>Heros</i> pages the same size as they first appeared in the <i>Eagle</i> comic some fifty years ago. This means that each spread will run over two pages, the binding on this book is such that each spread will open out without information getting lost in the gutter. So to maintain this feel and emphasize the panoramic feel of the book I have designed the whole book to reinforce this cinematic feel.<br />
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Here's some spreads to show you what I mean and also give you a feel for how the book will look. Please note that there are some captions missing and some spreads might well change–but only in a minor way:<br />
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<br />Peter Richardsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15566601617123798061noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816075755902555378.post-24986917508317994942012-09-30T20:15:00.002+01:002012-11-03T12:32:17.546+00:00Upcoming in illustrators<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgG5LQQn6LFaUvy4yQFLEaKrbwwkQTpdqEp4EQMr6ya1qt5WrX9Hn1ZHltrPJ4-G5hKzhUOH7PEFhJ_i6vND03qBzD3XEFIu68mHpf_Y_5jNHvNf5mzuIU4oP9BbGWlcMCxxWyD5l4d2Z6T/s1600/17.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgG5LQQn6LFaUvy4yQFLEaKrbwwkQTpdqEp4EQMr6ya1qt5WrX9Hn1ZHltrPJ4-G5hKzhUOH7PEFhJ_i6vND03qBzD3XEFIu68mHpf_Y_5jNHvNf5mzuIU4oP9BbGWlcMCxxWyD5l4d2Z6T/s320/17.jpg" width="247" /></a>Having been fully occupied with helping launch our very first issue of <b><i>illustrators</i></b>, I thought it might be opportune, whilst gathering breath to show you a bit more of what is heading your way over the next twelve months.<br />
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The good news is that the response has been even better than our most optimistic projections, although as a team we have all been pretty cautious in our expectations. Launching a new publication is fraught with difficulty and even keeping our origination costs as low as possible, the financial gamble involved is still considerable. So, caution has been our watchword.<br />
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However, I am pleased to say that issue 1 has been selling very well and recent publicity on Leif Peng's excellent <a href="http://todaysinspiration.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">Today's Inspiration</a> website has garnered a lot of response as well as a distribution deal for the US and Canada with Bud Plant.<br />
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So as issue 2 is currently being PDF'd ready to send to our printer, let's have a look at some of the spreads and features from issue 2, which has a major feature on Carol Day artist David Wright as well as a fascinating look at the life and work of historical illustrator Cecil Doughty written by David Ashford and an equally revealing look at the exquisite wild-life artistry of Raymond Sheppard written by Norman Boyd. The issue is rounded up with a look over the shoulder of John Watkiss as he works up a typically virtuosic concept painting for the US hit TV show The Walking Dead as well as some mouthwatering examples of the work of the Italian illustrator Renato Fratini with an accompanying text penned for us with characteristic passion and insight by David Roach.<br />
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<b><i>illustrators</i></b> is in many ways more of a book than a journal, each copy is 96 pages of beautiful artwork by the greatest European and UK illustrators accompanied by well researched and lively text. Our overall remit with each feature is that the writing should connect the reader with the artist and the world that he/she inhabited so that by the end of the piece the reader will gain a far greater insight into the work they are looking at.<br />
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As will be apparent from our first issue we are keen to source as much work as feasible from original artwork and where that is not possible, printer's proofs or high grade printed sources, so that there is we can get the reader as close to experiencing the full import of an artist's work as is possible.<br />
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I'll be talking a little more about some of our forthcoming issues shortly but in the meantime here's some images of <b><i>illustrators</i></b> number one just as an appetizer.<br />
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<br />Peter Richardsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15566601617123798061noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816075755902555378.post-8680140752304089802012-08-15T12:33:00.002+01:002012-08-17T15:44:12.728+01:00A First Peek - The Art of Denis McLoughlin<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAxY3ppBCSObv2EZwJ2ByDKO1PcQvO2zQfZAq6J3wpCdaZUuvooEcyU3S0gqUsUWwuxdxSd2I175Qf0uDD1dRR-5SjoU3uK9aPNQRAF-5rxzEjp-QC4rBj2lcp8c8HnOPORDfu0jxfB6v9/s1600/IMG_1642.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAxY3ppBCSObv2EZwJ2ByDKO1PcQvO2zQfZAq6J3wpCdaZUuvooEcyU3S0gqUsUWwuxdxSd2I175Qf0uDD1dRR-5SjoU3uK9aPNQRAF-5rxzEjp-QC4rBj2lcp8c8HnOPORDfu0jxfB6v9/s320/IMG_1642.jpg" width="242" /></a>A little over a couple of years ago, I first made a posting about the incredible 'noir' tinged art of the late, great illustrator Denis McLoughlin. The response was such that I made a few more posts and as a result was invited to work on a definitive art book with the artist's friend and biographer David Ashford. So in the spring of 2010 I went over to visit David with publisher Geoff West and we immersed ourselves in piles of McLoughlin memorabilia, including many original McLoughlin artworks and rarer than rare examples of his earliest published work, when he was still gunner McLoughlin stationed at Woolwich Barracks, a time when Herman Goering's Luftwaffe seemed to have a particular penchant for destroying any mural that McLoughlin cared to create to enliven the spartan barracks, which were his home for much of the war.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNXUSUYpgHnzG-J6O4sYZeaKTmrPqLpipaZa5NJ9lSJQvIRTSCevH7XzEa4Z4drv5muo8_MTYPjERWZJzwYazXoATwy_6UCyEUK9zIMtyGY43C57i9mIpeCYPeFgUdCxsJYNui4tKPg4Lp/s1600/HerosCoverFlatMockUp2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNXUSUYpgHnzG-J6O4sYZeaKTmrPqLpipaZa5NJ9lSJQvIRTSCevH7XzEa4Z4drv5muo8_MTYPjERWZJzwYazXoATwy_6UCyEUK9zIMtyGY43C57i9mIpeCYPeFgUdCxsJYNui4tKPg4Lp/s320/HerosCoverFlatMockUp2.jpg" width="245" /></a>At the risk of repeating myself, I am posting a blog which I put up this morning over at the Book Palace Blog concerning our forthcoming Heros the Spartan project. As many of you know, aside from my day job, I have been working on helping launch Illustrators Quarterly. As a brief aside, we now have the most amazing team of contributors who are all pooling their considerable talents to make this publication worthy of it's subject matter. But there is no getting around the fact that editing a publication such as Illustrators is a really full on job, so what I have attempted to do, with the aid of the team, is get issue 2 pretty well resolved way ahead of final copy date. I will be talking a bit more about Illustrators and the people behind it in the not too distant future. But on to Heros, which has also been occupying a lot of my time for the last few months. So ...<br />
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what is happening. Firstly and most importantly the format; the book is
going to be the same size as our Wulf the Briton epic, so it's
Gi-Normous, so that you can fully appreciate the artwork as Frank
Bellamy intended it to be seen. Interestingly, Bellamy was such a
perfectionist that he often worked on his strips the same size as they
were reproduced, and never more than a quarter up, so he knew exactly
how each pen line and brush stroke would reproduce. In addition and such
was his professionalism, he reduced the number of bottles of colour
Pelikan ink he worked with to ... 3, plus black. The reason being that
Eric Bemrose who printed the Eagle would often have to retouch art which
had colours that were proving unco-operative in repro and such work
resulted in the publisher having a re-touching surcharge added to their
bill. Bellamy's work NEVER incurred one of these charges.<br />
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So the good news is that, as with Wulf, you are getting the optimum best
job we can deliver in terms of the pages being as Bellamy intended.
There is one compromise we have had to make and that is that the book
will not be presenting each double page spread on a single page. We
fully explored the feasibility of such an approach, but we were left
with two alternatives, one being a greatly reduced size for each Heros
spread, the other being a book that would have to be bound along it's
longer edge and would cost a fortune.<br />
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in the end sanity prevailed, we went back and looked at the double page
spread in our companion volume Wulf The Briton (there is one from
Christmas 1959) and looked at the all important gutter. The wonderful
thing about Prolong is the quality of their binding, the books are bound
in signatures of four sheets and open out flat with no problem
whatsoever, so in the end we decided that the answer to our problem was
right under our noses. In addition the book will be much easier to
handle and more of a reading experience. Plus it will greatly help in
keeping the cost of this book down. So all in all we decided it was by
far the best route to take.<br />
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Anyway and because I know you are keen to see something more substantive here are some before and after restorations plus...<br />
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The cover. Hope you like it.Peter Richardsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15566601617123798061noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816075755902555378.post-9556000046332595942012-06-21T10:27:00.001+01:002012-06-22T21:44:48.093+01:00Tyger, Tyger...<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEislxpWTleu-GRWisus2P07reBtnf5fCvyTBf11p9opC8EEQWhM_rJZu8VCdeMgVUPUTGZl2RHRcBIVS6h4L37FGzkGE_hcTG-b0-q0GHnyxONPcR8LG-JFIDOboo9OO6z00PgFVUfHJt1p/s1600/Tigers1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEislxpWTleu-GRWisus2P07reBtnf5fCvyTBf11p9opC8EEQWhM_rJZu8VCdeMgVUPUTGZl2RHRcBIVS6h4L37FGzkGE_hcTG-b0-q0GHnyxONPcR8LG-JFIDOboo9OO6z00PgFVUfHJt1p/s320/Tigers1.jpg" width="211" /></a>Once upon a time in a distant age Britain had an empire, generations of schoolchildren were educated in classes where maps of Britain and it's dominions were highlighted in red, with pink indicating recent or not so recently independent countries which still resided within the Commonwealth and should the shit hit the fan, could always be relied on to send troops to bolster the ranks of good old Tommy Atkins.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-ZwJzxUxa0S1HL2qrxyaIc_1vigBsArtm4IqqeGAWKERAaxMK46KvcLYx_NgVsdz0NXanUTxjv55UfVK8_zvO9dxPN1NCalr2629CAPYUOCDDWDgIN-ULE8IBNKPshCDJ_sh8TML5w6eG/s1600/Tigers5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-ZwJzxUxa0S1HL2qrxyaIc_1vigBsArtm4IqqeGAWKERAaxMK46KvcLYx_NgVsdz0NXanUTxjv55UfVK8_zvO9dxPN1NCalr2629CAPYUOCDDWDgIN-ULE8IBNKPshCDJ_sh8TML5w6eG/s320/Tigers5.jpg" width="211" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhJ85FGtebCF4awOqXd8S4dTSIwMolyi8S89DUHEQjatmBC-lzonadVugt5QzgWSITZzt6FGUHhh5aGCB5TxqCk_NbsWpIQZviFbZ8Kt3UMKx4mVxwC6rrMxEBQjTDdFJyehBP745rguQL/s1600/Tigers6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhJ85FGtebCF4awOqXd8S4dTSIwMolyi8S89DUHEQjatmBC-lzonadVugt5QzgWSITZzt6FGUHhh5aGCB5TxqCk_NbsWpIQZviFbZ8Kt3UMKx4mVxwC6rrMxEBQjTDdFJyehBP745rguQL/s320/Tigers6.jpg" width="208" /></a>In those long gone and dimly remembered times the people of dear old Blighty had their news and entertainment delivered to them by people wearing dinner jackets and sounding like variations on a voice of John Mills. In other words, expensively educated and talking with a flat E. En fect everybedy telked with a flet E in thess deys, even people weth (shudder) regionel eccents telked weth flet Es.<br />
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Es ey teype thes ... sorry As I type this I am thinking back to my own childhood, growing up in a post war Britain, where the maps with the red and pink still hung yellowing on school walls, the illusion of dominion still stubbornly persisting, even though aside from the fact that the country was virtually bust there were the winds of change starting to erode the red bits on those now brittle maps.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpD_gw-kIubZB8RZVKUdLCkfzizSzVuKeMjmzsyDJHMZVH4dIri2Rk3QF7K8VBriclIAtYHMk0GnmcS9r9vVd4lwphA4rtHmFzBzI5UCN6pNDyzH8uKIyhv9xQRvOjETWkL_3Lq8vTUfj9/s1600/Tigers8.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpD_gw-kIubZB8RZVKUdLCkfzizSzVuKeMjmzsyDJHMZVH4dIri2Rk3QF7K8VBriclIAtYHMk0GnmcS9r9vVd4lwphA4rtHmFzBzI5UCN6pNDyzH8uKIyhv9xQRvOjETWkL_3Lq8vTUfj9/s320/Tigers8.jpg" width="197" /></a>So books that harkened back to the days of Empire didn't seem THAT bizarre and a lot of one's childhood reading was informed by what would now appear as patrician and somewhat condescending texts about men in pith helmets attended by friendly natives. Men in pith helmets usually equipped with maps and hunting rifles, friendly natives weighed down with white man's gear - masses of it - and also weighed down by their own superstitions, which only the man in the pith helmet could allay via the benefit of a sound mind, a decent public school education and his trusty fire stick, should push come to shove.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjuq-_DBP-ZI8ndxOLgmE3bPcUo-kauzrAKQnetCV9ik4kKobWyP4sbXMS4_nNoKTVABbHb20Kr-jscqt7NrNk6V07YwovFbr2w7K9WUgbrPw00COT3yDe4wg49KKPskFazpBSGCHsFrGI/s1600/Tigers9.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjuq-_DBP-ZI8ndxOLgmE3bPcUo-kauzrAKQnetCV9ik4kKobWyP4sbXMS4_nNoKTVABbHb20Kr-jscqt7NrNk6V07YwovFbr2w7K9WUgbrPw00COT3yDe4wg49KKPskFazpBSGCHsFrGI/s320/Tigers9.jpg" width="209" /></a>I was vividly reminded of these now wildly anachronistic texts, when working on one of the features destined for inclusion in issue 2 of <a href="http://www.bookpalacebooks.com/" target="_blank">Illustrators</a>. Norman Boyd has written a superb piece on the life and work of Raymond Sheppard who died tragically young but worked with a determination and drive that offset his cruelly truncated career with a truly impressive back catalogue of artwork and illustrations, such that even if we had had a whole book to fill, we would have been hard put to it to decide what to leave out and what to include.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhteHuS2GFx2XQmCGMLGCw8mBxlLSW8wGMzmnkw9oCFbakQzNv7mos5br0lMixbHxuq5IJu_A0x_FIgI01E_nkseBAWcOyCGpHx1R9ZClgwfkiKSjhvm9Kx7IxEK1fT9Ic7YYOOOhw0LdJg/s1600/Tigers10.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhteHuS2GFx2XQmCGMLGCw8mBxlLSW8wGMzmnkw9oCFbakQzNv7mos5br0lMixbHxuq5IJu_A0x_FIgI01E_nkseBAWcOyCGpHx1R9ZClgwfkiKSjhvm9Kx7IxEK1fT9Ic7YYOOOhw0LdJg/s320/Tigers10.jpg" width="207" /></a>One of the commissions that he undertook saw the commencement of a long and fruitful collaboration with the retired hunter Jim Corbett. Corbett in many ways fulfilled the man in the pith helmet ideal, born in 1875, the son of a Postmaster stationed in Northern India. As a boy Corbett grew up with a deep love and affection for the flora and fauna of a part of the world where the jungles and ravines of North India abut the snow peaked Himalayas. If paradise could ever be said to exist on earth it was probably located in Corbett's back yard.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjOLy9IRq6BxgV441P0hfcILhajaqMmqXAj3jaxf67BAoz3KZeLlG0Pb4DBDHq9_o8-8FQQGojow4iM5_9-HWkGJOT0pDMqyzAIEOzjO6ekI9LDN6YZ78TTTngsd4f-CdtU75483Fhwm_E/s1600/Tigers12.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjOLy9IRq6BxgV441P0hfcILhajaqMmqXAj3jaxf67BAoz3KZeLlG0Pb4DBDHq9_o8-8FQQGojow4iM5_9-HWkGJOT0pDMqyzAIEOzjO6ekI9LDN6YZ78TTTngsd4f-CdtU75483Fhwm_E/s320/Tigers12.jpg" width="211" /></a>Despite his love and respect for the wildlife of the region, he was also prone to the follies of the time when it came to his dealings with what was then termed "game" and "big game". In both instances "game" refers to animals viewed through a telescopic rifle sight, the only difference being that the addition of the word "big" imbues the quarry with the ability to effectively take lethal action against it's tormentor should it get the opportunity.<br />
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Corbett soon came to regret his profligate destruction of some of the region's finest beasts and instead confined his culling activities to hunting down the deadly man-eating tigers and leopards that so blighted the lives of his neighbours. The first Corbett book upon which Raymond Sheppard brought his considerable talents to bear was Man-Eaters of Kumaon, which was published with Sheppard's stellar artwork in 1952.<br />
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The covers in question were all from his "hardboiled fiction" covers for the Boardman Mystery series along with his Boardman Bloodhounds and also extended into his TVB paperback covers. several of these had actually made it onto the page layouts for the book before the mistake was spotted.<br />
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Here is the cover which got me checking with a number of sources as to the true provenance of these "misattributed" artworks:<br />
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Looks like a McLoughlin doesn't it? According to legend even Maurice Flanagan organizer of The Pulp and Paperback Fair thought it was when he used this image as one of a series of McLoughlin themed cards at one of his Paperback Fairs back in the day. It was Denis himself who flagged up the error.<br />
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Here are some more close but no cigar "Macs":<br />
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(I'm kinda relieved that the last five aren't by the great man.) <br />
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<br />Peter Richardsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15566601617123798061noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816075755902555378.post-42598209900721742782012-06-10T23:47:00.003+01:002012-06-12T08:19:10.334+01:00Coming Atcha!!!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0TYQ39CimZPWpampoSojRzsVFFykHXaQY8KoCbe2OS8P0T5vs_Dfa08mUt8ibYsxpmOsZYmkjn_V6qY4L6Rm4cKc3TEXzlGIcSuZUoXec5OoFz1sNtjkEaY060O_qR0sWzoktUoVZPKMM/s1600/IllustratorsMacCoverRevisedVs7a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0TYQ39CimZPWpampoSojRzsVFFykHXaQY8KoCbe2OS8P0T5vs_Dfa08mUt8ibYsxpmOsZYmkjn_V6qY4L6Rm4cKc3TEXzlGIcSuZUoXec5OoFz1sNtjkEaY060O_qR0sWzoktUoVZPKMM/s320/IllustratorsMacCoverRevisedVs7a.jpg" width="257" /></a>As visitors to this blog are only too aware, your old Blogmeister has been conspicuous by his absence of late. Impervious to pangs of conscience, his keyboard has remained out of action at least as regards the cybernetic activity required to satiate the desires of some of his most loyal readers.<br />
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Has this man got no conscience?<br />
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Well actually he has and I have been feeling varying degrees of guilt but I comfort myself with the thought that it's all for a good cause.<br />
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And the good cause is nearly upon us as Illustrators Issue 1 along with The Art of Denis McLoughlin are currently being printed and bound and will be hitting these shores come August.<br />
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So here as a taster is the cover to <a href="http://www.bookpalacebooks.com/acatalog/Art_of_Denis_McLoughlin.html" target="_blank">The Art of Denis McLoughlin</a>, plus the
cover and some interior spreads from issue 1 of <a href="http://www.bookpalacebooks.com/acatalog/Illustrators.html" target="_blank">Illustrators</a>.<br />
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The book also includes check lists of all those killer diller Bloodhound hardboiled fiction covers along with glowing reproductions of scores of covers most of which have not been seen by more then a few of his most devoted fans. Whilst his Buffalo Bill Annuals might well be reasonably familiar to a lot of collectors, there are few who have seen all his TVB noir paperback covers. Within the pages of this book you will see all of the TVB Paperback covers painted by McLoughlin, along with some really early Bloodhounds. There is discussion of his techniques and reproductions including full size details of some truly stunning originals.<br />
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McLoughlin is also the lead feature in the debut issue of <a href="http://www.bookpalacebooks.com/acatalog/Illustrators.html" target="_blank">Illustrators</a> along with an interview with Ian Kennedy looking back on his over half century of working as one of this country's premier illustrators and comic strip artists, with features on the Spanish artist and doyen of romantic illustration Angel Badia Camps and Parisian artist Cheri Herouard adding further luster to the proceedings. A beautifully instructive essay by Mick Brownfield takes you behind the scenes of one of the artist's most iconic Radio Times Christmas covers.<br />
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All in all perhaps not such a bad trade off after all. <br />
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We hope you will join us for the ride.<br />
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We will be giving you a sneak preview of issue 2 shortly.Peter Richardsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15566601617123798061noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816075755902555378.post-80399339335530068352012-05-22T21:11:00.002+01:002012-05-22T22:02:27.380+01:00Achtung Alonso!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZzSGMpKUtBKHA693Oh-EQmSi6767bKwfOGHGS7WEq0JpsTOzWmOOUwRFObrGujMP96QRUDJFmH2a-Bamdh0lhdvIHFK20KWISDTV7gAIdG8tc7Ozq60iECZiRctgp2l7S1TcFXAgPjhJm/s1600/Comm_4501_coverMaster.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZzSGMpKUtBKHA693Oh-EQmSi6767bKwfOGHGS7WEq0JpsTOzWmOOUwRFObrGujMP96QRUDJFmH2a-Bamdh0lhdvIHFK20KWISDTV7gAIdG8tc7Ozq60iECZiRctgp2l7S1TcFXAgPjhJm/s320/Comm_4501_coverMaster.jpg" width="247" /></a>As in Matias Alonso. Having just received the latest list of Commando comics from the ever pro-active team, located in their sand bagged bunker in deepest Dundee, I am pleased to report that their inspired decision to reprint their earliest stories is delivering up some real classics, which have up until now been locked away in the vaults of DC Thomson for over fifty years.<br />
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Alonso's work has been conspicuous by it's absence from Commando's recent reprint roster save for the relatively anodyne Johnny the Jinx and D Day Plus, which isn't 100% Alonso as it features Luis Bermejo's pencils, which when combined with Alonso's lush and inventive inking made for one of the finest jobs either of these two artists produced for Commando.<br />
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Here in the meantime is the rest of the current crop of Commandos courtesy of Commando editor Calum Laird, who is doing such an incredible job with this title:<br />
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Hunting Mussolini<br />
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The Convict Commandos — Jelly Jakes, Titch Mooney, Smiler Dawson — and their commander Guy Tenby had been given another job. This time they were to hunt down Mussolini in his hide-out. Easier said than done when they weren’t the only ones doing the same.<br />
Guy, as usual, had a plan…but it wasn’t supposed to include Jelly hanging from the undercarriage of an airborne Fieseler Storch! <br />
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Story: Alan Hebden<br />
Art: Manuel Benet<br />
Cover: Manuel Benet<br />
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Commando No 4500<br />
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Lightning Strike<br />
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The war in the Far East was almost over. Japan’s armed forces had been ground down and the country was on its knees. The Japanese hadn’t given in though, they hoped super-fighters like the Kyushu Shinden — Magnificent Lightning — could stem the flow of US bombers ravaging their country.<br />
They could never have guessed that the Shinden’s finest moment would come protecting the very enemies it had been designed to destroy.<br />
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Story: Alan Hebden<br />
Art: John Ridgway<br />
Cover: John Ridgway<br />
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Commando No 4505<br />
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Night Raider<br />
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Out of the night sky he came – a man with no mercy in his heart and a blazing tommy-gun in his hands, whose one ambition was to wreak destruction on all things Nazi. He became the Scarlet Pimpernel of German-occupied Europe. <br />
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Introduction by Calum Laird, Commando Editor<br />
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Women in Commando are a rare sighting but, like buses, when they do turn up there’s more than one. I counted at least three in here, and a bit of romance.<br />
Don’t think that it means that Stainton’s story isn’t an all guns blazing story as it is, running from the beaches of Dunkirk to a full-on Commando raid in France, and with barely time to reload along the way. His touch means that the espionage, beautifully pointed up by Ken Barr’s dramatic night drop cover, manages to be action-packed, not tension-filled.<br />
Add to that Alonso’s 100mph inside art and you have a solid gold winner. Makes you proud to be part of the Commando Team.<br />
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Night Raider originally Commando No35 (April 1962) <br />
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Story: Stainton<br />
Art: Alonso<br />
Cover: Ken Barr<br />
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Commando No 4502<br />
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Battle Flag<br />
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The Second Battalion, Daleshire Light Infantry, had something to be proud of — their very own “battle flag”, a standard given to them after their heroic triumph over Napoleon’s finest troops. Carried into action, it would inspire the men to further brave deeds.<br />
So when one young officer’s courage failed him and the flag was captured, the thought of it in enemy hands made him vow to keep it safe — even after his death!<br />
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Introduction by Scott Montgomery, Commando Deputy Editor<br />
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Gritty action is undoubtedly what Commando does best. However, over the decades there have also been comedies, capers, historical epics, science-fiction and…ghost stories. Battle Flag is a good example of the latter. After a detailed framing sequence, veteran writer Cyril Walker cleverly weaves a tale with an eerie thread that runs throughout but does not overwhelm the action and adventure. Interestingly, the working title for this story was “The Flintshire Phantom”. That’s a good one and, had it been pitched today, I’m sure that it would have been used! Enjoy. <br />
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Battle Flag, originally Commando No 2063 (February 1987) Commando 4502<br />
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Story: Cyril G. Walker<br />
Art: Cecil Rigby<br />
Cover: Jeff Bevan<br />
<br />Peter Richardsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15566601617123798061noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816075755902555378.post-38014679620380720232012-05-07T09:34:00.001+01:002012-05-10T07:49:14.778+01:00Once Upon A Time In A Land Faraway...there lived a storyteller who brought to life his fantastic tales with the aid of the world's greatest artists, writers and musicians. They all lived together in the storyteller's Magic Kingdom located in Burbank California, where with the aid of devices that projected their fantasies all around the world they devised their entertainments.<br />
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However, not all the work that occurred in the Magic Kingdom was free from tribulation and sometimes the dark forces beyond its gilded walls threatened it's very existence. Wars and labor disputes as well as hostile takeovers had created deep divisions that threw a shadow across otherwise sunlit corridors. But despite these troubles the dwellers inside the Magic Kingdom were contented in their work as they continually strove to ensure that their realizations of the storyteller's dreams matched his expectations.<br />
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In their constant strive to fulfill this remit, no amount of effort was too much. New and ever more potent means of delivering the storyteller's dreams to audiences far and wide were explored and as a consequence more and more of the storyteller's accumulated gold was gambled in the making of these stories.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYKFTZz9u_y52349tXKjSH9ZkUOG5CSZ5Mox3GdZ4jzX397K-7pz_i5sQH3wnrf4eiWIBblUybx7L0pys_sxbTkJhEmd6G6G3LJGN8-ULTlIHkqit3fCRgx01UcXJJR94d3twyBLcojoQD/s1600/SleepingBeauty3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="202" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYKFTZz9u_y52349tXKjSH9ZkUOG5CSZ5Mox3GdZ4jzX397K-7pz_i5sQH3wnrf4eiWIBblUybx7L0pys_sxbTkJhEmd6G6G3LJGN8-ULTlIHkqit3fCRgx01UcXJJR94d3twyBLcojoQD/s320/SleepingBeauty3.jpg" width="320" /></a>And here dear reader (assuming you are still with us) is just such an example of this phenomenon, in 1959 Walt Disney's Sleeping Beauty was released having had a huge production budget lavished on it, with extensive use of the Disney Studio's multiplane camera, six channel stereophonic sound and wide angle Technirama pumping up the budget to $6,000,000, making the film the biggest financial gamble the studio had taken since recovering from the near wipe-out that the War had inflicted on their export markets nearly twenty years earlier.<br />
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Well if you didn't already know, you have probably guessed, the film's reception at the box office wasn't the ringing endorsement the Studio were hoping for and the Company posted it's first loss for over a decade in it's 1959-60 report to it's shareholders. As a consequence the axe was taken to the animation department and huge layoffs resulted but ironically one of the facilitators of the rise of the Disney studio and accessory to one of the greatest betrayals of King Mouse was left in place to bring his considerable technical expertise to helping the studio work within a hair shirt budget. Ub Iwerks, first name pronounced You - Bee, had worked with Disney when they were both teenagers at a commercial art studio in Kansas City. While Iwerks was a highly talented artist with an inventive and inquiring mind, he was shy and introverted. Disney in contrast, whilst never possessing the artistic talents of Iwerks was a visionary and a natural businessman with the ability to sell himself and his ideas and with Disney's innate ability to spot a good opportunity when he saw one, it it wasn't long before he and Iwerks still on the cusp of their twenties had formed their own company producing a line of films entitled Laugh-O-Grams. When that company went belly up Iwerks returned to the Kansas City Film Ad Company whilst Disney with typical enterprise took himself off to California to set up a new venture which he was convinced would seal his fortune.<br />
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It wasn't long before Disney was writing to Iwerks to offer him a job at the newly formed Disney Brothers Studio (Walt's brother Roy, who had a good head for figures and was a tempering influence on some of Walt's more extravagant schemes had also moved to California to work as the studio's accountant). The somewhat ironically titled Oswald the Luck Rabbit was the first hit that the studio had, but the joy was short lived when the character and most of Disney's animators were stolen from them by their distributor. Disney took the distributor to court but lost. Iwerks was one of the few who remained loyal to Disney. It was therefore really devastating when a few years later another unprincipled distributor attempted a similar heist with Disney's even more successful Mickey Mouse. Disney hung onto the character whose copyright ownership was beyond dispute but this time Iwerks left (with most of Disney's key animators) disillusioned with the endless toil and studio tensions and convinced that he could make a better living for himself running his own studio.<br />
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By the time that film came out the book that I am sharing with you today had been sitting on the shelf of my local bookshop, come newsagent, come stationer for about three years. Like the film it celebrated the Giant Golden Book of Walt Disney's Sleeping Beauty had overblown it's budget and much to the supposed chagrin of King's Stationers, located in St Leonards on Sea, Sussex, it's 25 shilling price tag was just too steep for the average shopper. So there it languished next to it's other over priced for it's locality, neighbor <a href="http://cloud-109.blogspot.co.uk/2012/02/tales-of-greeks-and-trojans.html" target="_blank">Tales of the Greeks and Trojans</a>. Both handsome books, both quietly pining for a good home.<br />
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Well, eventually (albeit several years later) I weakened and fortified with funds from a paper round I treated myself to this book, which I have never seen anywhere else (try Googling for it to see what I mean).<br />
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So here's your opportunity to savor one of the most exquisite Disney children's books ever published, in an era when a book like this could appear with one of stylist Eyvind Earle's superb artworks as cover and endpapers with more of his illustrations accompanying stills and character sketches from this commercially flawed but nonetheless beautiful film.<br />
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<br />Peter Richardsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15566601617123798061noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816075755902555378.post-38709123486371210912012-03-31T10:06:00.006+01:002012-03-31T15:28:24.272+01:00Down in the Dungeons - The Legend of Grimrock Awaits<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPEmjDmUwR1yEQdAFsR7-7xxdD_OM3TRsw-p6ah0Vd_INRQ9LyUPQDx17LjBQvwKabxdUkWYuI1OMhCXPPU4etcm9YMYYmxI7GJOjlJjlE9RR-gVoPRYQKvgRH7mZKvvgqTNoB7Re7Uxb2/s1600/Legend_of_Grimrock_screenshot_03.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPEmjDmUwR1yEQdAFsR7-7xxdD_OM3TRsw-p6ah0Vd_INRQ9LyUPQDx17LjBQvwKabxdUkWYuI1OMhCXPPU4etcm9YMYYmxI7GJOjlJjlE9RR-gVoPRYQKvgRH7mZKvvgqTNoB7Re7Uxb2/s320/Legend_of_Grimrock_screenshot_03.jpg" width="320" /></a>As I mentioned on my previous posting, some of the work currently occupying my energies is involved with a team of games developers and as a consequence my games antenna is in a much more alert mode than is usually the case.<br />
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The developers working under the title of Almost Human Games, first cooked up what was to become The Legend of Grimrock in April 2011 as a weekend's moment of catharsis, during a particularly hectic period for the four guys who were busily chasing deadlines working on other companies games. They thought about the first person RPG games such as Eye of the Beholder and the aforementioned Dungeon Master they had enjoyed so much as children and just for the fun of it knocked out this little trial piece.<br />
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Three months later and with the pressure of commissioned work easing off a bit, they had a look at what they had wrought and thought a bit more seriously about actually making a game imbued with the spirit and atmosphere of Dungeon Master but with the benefits of all the developments and refinements the games industry has achieved in the intervening quarter century.<br />
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Which brings me to the important release information, the game has been developed for PCs as it's first incarnation which will be released on the 11th of April - further details <a href="http://www.grimrock.net/" target="_blank">here</a>. And then the plan is to release versions for Mac and iOS as soon as is feasible after that.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7nt-AHiIxTOo4Hrvc6phPqJC_2SqaM-fqzHvT6NTCkJ2Jb6AlWwihGFJLCn62X_kPNNJEodjkw0Bh3uRzs6EDGsrKGO_YsXyFCXme6ZcxYuJpNIuhEBbfQM1WYDRXOgtrNtSiHi6RRviU/s1600/CowboyHamster.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="138" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7nt-AHiIxTOo4Hrvc6phPqJC_2SqaM-fqzHvT6NTCkJ2Jb6AlWwihGFJLCn62X_kPNNJEodjkw0Bh3uRzs6EDGsrKGO_YsXyFCXme6ZcxYuJpNIuhEBbfQM1WYDRXOgtrNtSiHi6RRviU/s320/CowboyHamster.jpg" width="320" /></a>In fact talking of wheels and hamsters, one of the deadlines involves working with a team of developers on a new app game and one of the characters that I have generated is this little guy.<br />
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Little cutie. Anyway the upshot of working with app developers is that I had to arm myself with an iPad and being as financially cautious as ever, I plumped for last year's model which is now just about affordable to someone of my modest means.<br />
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I must confess though that although I had not allowed myself to become too obsessed with having an iPad, now that I have one I can just see what an incredible leap forward in computing these things are, it's like looking at the next step in digital technology and in it's potential hints at things well beyond having a portable means of covering most of your computing needs in a phenomenally touch screen responsive format.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyCn0gK6O_g6ouRnXkhORlAd0l5ibSd0-grI-_SOXWGwedjcZFf4TiU_rHxXnHl3XIkZ0v-yD-QWe09OS2aZ0MCYw2BHu9joUhaTT8WgRnNtwnRNe0ZPfkc58NBcH65KJWSJ3bDD1ih5_e/s1600/IMG_1532.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyCn0gK6O_g6ouRnXkhORlAd0l5ibSd0-grI-_SOXWGwedjcZFf4TiU_rHxXnHl3XIkZ0v-yD-QWe09OS2aZ0MCYw2BHu9joUhaTT8WgRnNtwnRNe0ZPfkc58NBcH65KJWSJ3bDD1ih5_e/s320/IMG_1532.jpg" width="320" /></a>Anyway the reason for my shoving more money that I don't have in their direction, was the delight of taking out a digital subscription to Commando (I have no shame Simon!). The delights of a digital subscription are manyfold but for anyone sharing living space with a woman of practical mind and an eye for minimalist interiors, the stress of having four issues of Commando comics arriving on a fortnightly basis with the unstoppable force of the Wehrmacht's invasion of Western Europe in Spring 1940 is too much to bear.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimk1trHJ1H9JtOKPinz1cS-QNNLuvQs301Q1LmZRlTjHV0y5baM-1pryZrpl3Vm4B67OzHWxUYeMHUYHpZ_S8Hh34HVAzixxSEsySw76QgvlUGdAorgDxsz-sa5tnm23FLowKx12Nn9Kcf/s1600/IMG_1530.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimk1trHJ1H9JtOKPinz1cS-QNNLuvQs301Q1LmZRlTjHV0y5baM-1pryZrpl3Vm4B67OzHWxUYeMHUYHpZ_S8Hh34HVAzixxSEsySw76QgvlUGdAorgDxsz-sa5tnm23FLowKx12Nn9Kcf/s320/IMG_1530.jpg" width="320" /></a>When you have an iPad all this is taken care of, there is absolutely no need to worry dear boy, the comics are ready for download as soon as you see them on the Commando website. They reside on your iPad awaiting your digital summons to be perused in razor sharp resolution and you are not having to squirrel them away underneath the sofa. OK so you don't get the tactile joy of flicking through the pages and the smell of the paper is gone, but the heady aroma of old newsprint is precisely that... OLD newsprint. It takes decades of careful storage to achieve, new Commandos are virtually a non event in terms of paper aromatics.<br />
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However and returning to the iPad the most amazing aspect of Commando on the iPad is the quality of the art work, in this case you can see every line of artist Cecil Rigby's manic hatching and contra hatching creating the most diabolical symphony of pen work ever seen within the pages of a war comic. Rigby's work even at the time looked as if it came from another era and truth to tell it did. Like the much younger Gordon Livingstone, Rigby's work was devoid of any overt influence of the "Latin" school of war comics artistry. Rigby's work in contrast looked like that of a man who had followed a correspondence course in illustration. I well recall seeing one that my mother had followed and it was full of exercises of penmanship with the sort of cross hatchery that so distinguished the work of C.T. Rigby. Much of his formative work had been in the 1930's where he specialized in creating caricatures of sporting personalities and you could see the signs of it in the pages of this story particularly with the delightful portrait of Harry looking not unlike Joe Louis on page 59. That's where Rigby excelled but as regards placing his figures in a convincing environment, you can see that head and shoulders portraiture was really his comfort zone and straying beyond that was something he evidently found a chore.<br />
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Nevertheless a really fun experience and definitely one to be recommended for anyone wishing to sample the early and very heady years of the UK's longest serving war comic.<br />
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All Commando images © DC Thomson 2012Peter Richardsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15566601617123798061noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816075755902555378.post-66586441721622097462012-03-15T07:22:00.002+00:002012-03-15T10:15:38.450+00:00More From The Grahame Johnstones<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEje8spfV_66djX_YS8yVMMmMq_LyX_b-NXgBCj_VQ4miqQtpoWg00RStJVAZhX1QHjocrdPnKvs4NydsEvgcFYgC6SzANKaZCodk7kJYbLNCDeiPBLbDtA4gKe2l-AxnOCRRV2_ltQ0Zvc-/s1600/Johnstone.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEje8spfV_66djX_YS8yVMMmMq_LyX_b-NXgBCj_VQ4miqQtpoWg00RStJVAZhX1QHjocrdPnKvs4NydsEvgcFYgC6SzANKaZCodk7kJYbLNCDeiPBLbDtA4gKe2l-AxnOCRRV2_ltQ0Zvc-/s1600/Johnstone.png" /></a>Here are some more samples of Anne and Janet Grahame Johnstone's delightful work, courtesy of David Slinn, who as well as being a mine of information on this period of UK illustration has a collection to back up his passion some of which he is generously sharing with you here. The work you see is but a mere fraction of the amount of illustrations that they generated over their career. A career which was horribly compromised in 1979, when Janet Grahame Johnstone died as a result of smoke inhalation from a kitchen fire, leaving Anne alone to try and carry on the work and meet the omnipresent deadlines.<br />
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(Why did you have to show me this Phil???...)Peter Richardsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15566601617123798061noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816075755902555378.post-32933236410383538472012-02-28T14:33:00.001+00:002012-02-29T11:37:45.721+00:00Tales of the Greeks and Trojans<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSjWhG1kNXlJ5o0Gdz70OpGKyEoHV15atWR8_pyxVS-2VsCCPm_z67ajnThD7E4dtmcsU5SMwK5DKNiI5FWnYllS7jhRfSYT2NSqJWDY9OLvpXudUTVp9gupQpoT7blx7gMlk80TeJpc7r/s1600/Greeks+and+Trojans+1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSjWhG1kNXlJ5o0Gdz70OpGKyEoHV15atWR8_pyxVS-2VsCCPm_z67ajnThD7E4dtmcsU5SMwK5DKNiI5FWnYllS7jhRfSYT2NSqJWDY9OLvpXudUTVp9gupQpoT7blx7gMlk80TeJpc7r/s320/Greeks+and+Trojans+1.jpg" width="256" /></a>The year was 1963 and in the small bookstore come stationer that was one of my favorite childhood haunts, there was a new book that immediately grabbed my attention. In those far away days when color printing was still something of a luxury, books that boasted a large format and cover to cover color printing were still something of an event. But this book was an even in itself, for the cover with Greek warriors in a duel to the death, their boldly painted forms silhouetted against a white background was an introduction to the work of one of the most extraordinary illustrator teams I have ever come across.<br />
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Born in 1928 and raised in an environment where their artistic prowess was encouraged both at home and at school the sister soon gained recognition as illustrators whose innate sense of form, design and drama (much of it presumably inherited from their mother Doris Zinkeisen who was a noted portraitist and costume designer) was apparent from an early age.<br />
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There were of course collectors, but we needed high quality scans of all the covers we sought and the logistics of having to carry a scanner and computer to spend a day getting under the feet of a McLoughlin devotee, which would have secured us a reasonable number of scans but by no means all the ones I craved gave us pause for thought. Photographing the books would have been quicker, but the results are light years away from a scan. It simply wasn't an option.<br />
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Here's some scans (minus captions) to give you a flavor.Peter Richardsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15566601617123798061noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3816075755902555378.post-90104275732693195672012-01-23T23:14:00.000+00:002012-01-23T23:14:19.746+00:00A Thousand and One Nights - Kay Nielson's Postumous Postscript<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-R1eaVHeCMtUVL7BDbzVwqajMH_J1DcQm9LOQBjy7lzuCOg36-4Wc_W3tO1aMaxXYIPOzqeBDqrxZ5uv9cZ0SvEdaDB8Xdpl7Of97V-bX1AHFOYj-L_pRbIwnqflN1DeA92xdIxm0hHqr/s1600/Kay1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-R1eaVHeCMtUVL7BDbzVwqajMH_J1DcQm9LOQBjy7lzuCOg36-4Wc_W3tO1aMaxXYIPOzqeBDqrxZ5uv9cZ0SvEdaDB8Xdpl7Of97V-bX1AHFOYj-L_pRbIwnqflN1DeA92xdIxm0hHqr/s320/Kay1.jpg" width="233" /></a>In 1976, a minor publishing event occurred when Pan books visionary editor David Larkin released a paperback edition of Kay Nielson's Illustrations for One Thousand and One Nights. For lovers and connoisseurs of the Golden Age of Picture Book Illustration it was a major event. For although some sixty years earlier, Nielson's exquisite illustrations for East of the Sun and West of the Moon had secured him a lasting claim to fame as one of the prime exponents of early twentieth century romantic illustration, his fame was as fleeting as other illustrators of this genre, such as Edmund Dulac.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzDIFrFLHkKVczg7r4XtAHkQZNXMYJ4u-8vOHRyDWrR6u5eONGVGd9kAI9na-pP-HjjPdDGPsVIew_AFnCP19NVIv6pHJX3Zq_jWSvBlpcudq30CTdVRSDPw1FRxcfgmGFrlbTPVTUF7af/s1600/Kay2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzDIFrFLHkKVczg7r4XtAHkQZNXMYJ4u-8vOHRyDWrR6u5eONGVGd9kAI9na-pP-HjjPdDGPsVIew_AFnCP19NVIv6pHJX3Zq_jWSvBlpcudq30CTdVRSDPw1FRxcfgmGFrlbTPVTUF7af/s320/Kay2.jpg" width="245" /></a>By the 1930's times were a' changing and with it the sort of work that an artist of Nielson's undoubted genius, but limited repertoire could command. He eventually accepted an offer from the Disney studio (readers of this blog will recall that Walt's European tour which preceded work on Snow White had seen him snaffle up lots of beautifully illustrated books with a specific intent to infuse his story, background and styling departments with artists that were automatically on message with the visions that Disney had surging through his head).<br />
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So Nielson with his wife Ulla following on, left his native Denmark and pledged his troth with the Mouse Factory. He proceeded to work his darndest creating some truly inspirational concept drawings for what would turn into The Night on Bare Mountain and Ave Maria sequences of Fantasia. He continued at the studio with a pile of conceptual work for an adaptation of his fellow Dane, Hans Christian Andersen's Little Mermaid. The project was to be eventually shelved until 1989, when work was commenced in earnest on the film that would signify the moment when the Disney studio having reached a point of near collapse following their disastrous attempt to make a feature length film from Lloyd Alexander's The Black Cauldron, re-emerged as the force it once had been in film making.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiY7wiyb73Yzl0AYwQhkqjIgPCnCPROLIRqJbm4OQD0y3Y1BQe-BeI7qYo7j14Otpj9Tr7jXmk2L1rhAy_1NscGO7AbkT3beKGOZ6X88xRozWPIug6TjeEHGR_LunQ2YzE_p-KUVKt20x2w/s1600/Kay3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiY7wiyb73Yzl0AYwQhkqjIgPCnCPROLIRqJbm4OQD0y3Y1BQe-BeI7qYo7j14Otpj9Tr7jXmk2L1rhAy_1NscGO7AbkT3beKGOZ6X88xRozWPIug6TjeEHGR_LunQ2YzE_p-KUVKt20x2w/s320/Kay3.jpg" width="265" /></a>However, I digress, Kay Nielson's tenure at the studio was relatively brief and his remaining years were eked out seeking work which was becoming progressively more elusive. But such was the charm and warmth that he and Ulla exuded and such was the generosity of their near neighbors that somehow or other they struggled through in elegant penury until Kay passed away in 1957 at the age of 71 to be followed by his wife a year later.<br />
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Before she passed on Ulla gave their friends and neighbors Hildegard and Frederick Monhoff a box of paintings for a book that was never to be published. Despite approaching museums both in the USA and Denmark the Monhoff's could find no one remotely interested in sharing these artworks with the world.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTPiF2TsRw23z9Gx_UzIsQT2Y7FDFXtQ6DJ3YRTJNN273zWbs6Ede8XJOvhsWpxCIMclAusjUGVZcj8ptg5Fm7Y7QBSp366wl4-BUm3UTGh8m6lLbYHH7GCucWIPTDveyQZYj7zRzO1nYK/s1600/Kay4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTPiF2TsRw23z9Gx_UzIsQT2Y7FDFXtQ6DJ3YRTJNN273zWbs6Ede8XJOvhsWpxCIMclAusjUGVZcj8ptg5Fm7Y7QBSp366wl4-BUm3UTGh8m6lLbYHH7GCucWIPTDveyQZYj7zRzO1nYK/s320/Kay4.jpg" width="260" /></a>No one that is until the Monhoff's approached Elizabeth and Betty Ballantine who issued the illustrations in an identical format to their highly successful Frank Frazetta collections and as David Larkin had co-editioned the Frazetta books under the Pan imprint it seemed logical for him to co-host the Nielson paintings.<br />
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So here they are:<br />
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float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="269" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibMLXnwg485L19fYIsMg4_ub6jlYrbbzIimyRaXr1pHLlsV162bZ9p85ek7PypdZ2vTaAitRsXCIRxRWYPiGt2oumRgFrwWsZHzpbssd_VwiCh4zWUQhXjud27tb_TnBBTTEOEjm8Qw3jf/s320/GonzalesKraut.jpg" width="320" /></a>The number of simply superb Spanish and Italian illustrators and painters, who refined their craft in the UK comics of the 1950s-70s is simply astonishing. In fact the phenomenon was part of the rationale behind a fanzine that I used to print off on a desk top printer some twelve years ago. Achtung Commando! was founded on the principle that there were a lot of people who were into <a href="http://www.commandocomics.com/" target="_blank">Commando</a> comics who just didn't seem to know that many of the artists they were oohing and ahhing over had worked far and beyond the confines of the pages of the world's longest running pocket library. Similarly, there were devotees of Warren comics that were blissfully unaware that many of the artists whose work they were so captivated by had actually learned their trade working for publications such as Commando and it's Fleetway rivals War, Air Ace and Battle Picture Library.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhW6iUOUlcO8NmT89SOIo2niToI6PfbLvBmhM7JlplHkZcsoXSzJxSXrRrW43R5Ctk6YQ6Rjp1B3KsYWurDewLflZlX196vqP5z4R7pnOrwGH0zsuoFn-2YSde7XGr0wTKswYjmc2LLZQs4/s1600/DangerousDawnPage37.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhW6iUOUlcO8NmT89SOIo2niToI6PfbLvBmhM7JlplHkZcsoXSzJxSXrRrW43R5Ctk6YQ6Rjp1B3KsYWurDewLflZlX196vqP5z4R7pnOrwGH0zsuoFn-2YSde7XGr0wTKswYjmc2LLZQs4/s320/DangerousDawnPage37.jpg" width="244" /></a>The little A5 fanzine was printed in full color and hand bound and trimmed with glossy covers, the whole operation crunching through buckets of Epson ink cartridges. Unbelievably, even with the deterrent cover price of £15.00 the little fellas sold well, in fact sales for each issue were well into three figures and there was always demand for back issues. There was a niche market who seemed to enjoy finding out more about Commando and more specifically the people behind the comics. All in all it was a fun project and I got to network with a lot of fellow enthusiasts as well as having the fun of interviewing many of the artists and writers.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh10sHElPF8Zai5cRhiHmpvOthKefC-x-nIi8oEPiRzsSzkiJDXCh1gBaJwZVZ8HQLfIiSkwCakrwGWviOanDR15P9YJAt6WgN_HaYt_lnvBZ6AsKuaPICdTuKwBpNUU6aCTYL1g2pEdBT6/s1600/DangerousDawnPage36.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh10sHElPF8Zai5cRhiHmpvOthKefC-x-nIi8oEPiRzsSzkiJDXCh1gBaJwZVZ8HQLfIiSkwCakrwGWviOanDR15P9YJAt6WgN_HaYt_lnvBZ6AsKuaPICdTuKwBpNUU6aCTYL1g2pEdBT6/s320/DangerousDawnPage36.jpg" width="242" /></a>I am very much reminded of those days as I work on the last elements of the first volume in Book Palace Books new publishing venture Illustrators, which includes a fascinating interview with Ian Kennedy, who is to many enthusiasts forever associated with Commando, but as the interview and accompanying artwork attest, there is a lot more to be explored. As I cast my mind back to creating that first issue of Achtung Commando!, I remember chatting to the ultimate resource for UK comic historians, Mr David Roach. David as I have mentioned earlier is the man that appears in the credits for many comic and illustration retrospectives, as he is such a passionate researcher of all this material.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCXkMCYCHGfZ3k8sEDx2hRbFoMzVR8Iqhmr3Kenn3yj6DKCwTROW3o__uuUCeAOhMzNCDXub_zMH1I3tS4VLZm4O9_JCddqeDEEWhbUapqRx9uazfOKemH7XY4f1js-Zb_3wOSOK9nVDyB/s1600/TerrorTeamPage33.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCXkMCYCHGfZ3k8sEDx2hRbFoMzVR8Iqhmr3Kenn3yj6DKCwTROW3o__uuUCeAOhMzNCDXub_zMH1I3tS4VLZm4O9_JCddqeDEEWhbUapqRx9uazfOKemH7XY4f1js-Zb_3wOSOK9nVDyB/s320/TerrorTeamPage33.jpg" width="233" /></a>David it was who identified one of my all time favorite Commando artists (although he only did perhaps two or three issues). Juan Gonzalez Alacreu (not to be confused with Pepe Gonzales of Vampirella fame), was a consummate draftsman and a man obsessed with light and form. Like many of his contemporaries working in Barcleona's busy studios, he would utilize photos for many of his facial references, but his mastery of form and design enabled him to use such props creatively rather than being restricted by such aids. His fascination with light and capturing it's effect on form, made his work stand out from his contemporaries. He would literally take a scalpel blade to the surface of his work to add reflected light and texture to add further dynamism to his drawings.<br />
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Here's some examples from a couple of Commando comics; Dangerous Dawn and Terror Team (both worthy of inclusion on Commando's current list of titles worthy of reprint) from the late 1960's and here are some much more recent examples of his paintings which show the same preoccupations in an albeit much more serene setting.<br />
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And while we're about it, here's the latest four issues straight from operational HQ in Bonnie Dundee:<br />
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Commando 4459<br />
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Invasion Watch<br />
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In the early days of the Second World War, men too young, too old or too infirm for the regular services flocked to join Britain’s Home Guard to “do their bit.” Because of this, the units were dismissed as a bit of a joke in some quarters.<br />
If those nay-sayers had listened to the conversation in one Home Guard headquarters on a night in 1940, though, they might have changed their minds. For as the men there shared their stories it became very clear that they had fought, and would fight again. And fight like the demons they were.<br />
Invaders beware!<br />
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Script: Mac MacDonald<br />
Art: Carlos Pino<br />
Cover: Carlos Pino<br />
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Commando 4460<br />
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Warriors!<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-6kUAwi3NO5FvZuve9BeUhpmlvJQlSKA9ca9ijl4dtbJC8Nm-hTTIMFhXh4bt4nOyE3EM-4uR468NzV5Z-otubZJV8ZvzWPCBIMGZuID_eDI0wEznizidI70AN2mnXAP-7XuaSu7EbI_b/s1600/Comm_4460_coverMaster+copy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-6kUAwi3NO5FvZuve9BeUhpmlvJQlSKA9ca9ijl4dtbJC8Nm-hTTIMFhXh4bt4nOyE3EM-4uR468NzV5Z-otubZJV8ZvzWPCBIMGZuID_eDI0wEznizidI70AN2mnXAP-7XuaSu7EbI_b/s320/Comm_4460_coverMaster+copy.jpg" width="247" /></a>Fighting men come in all shapes and sizes. They wear different uniforms and follow different flags. But the best of them share one quality. And that one quality marks them out from everyone else as men to be feared and respected in equal measure.<br />
That’s the quality that marks them out as… <br />
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Warriors!<br />
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Script: Mac MacDonald<br />
Art: Keith Page<br />
Cover: Keith Page<br />
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Commando 4461<br />
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Upside Down Ace<br />
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Alan Burnett and Colin Harvey flew as the crew of a Boulton Paul Defiant night fighter. They shared the same room and spent almost every second of every day with each other…yet the very air around them seemed to vibrate with the fierce hate they had for each other. <br />
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But, despite their bickering and brawling, they had the highest score of kills in the Group. How they kept it up was their own special secret… <br />
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Introduction by Calum Laird, Commando Editor<br />
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The Boulton Paul Defiant was one of many planes which didn’t quite live up to their designers’ hopes. But you’d never guess that from Ian Kennedy’s dynamic cover where, as only he can, he turns the world on its head to create another perfect composition.<br />
Inside, John Ridgway — in only his second Commando outing —delivers an ideal complement to the cover, his crisp, accurate linework being perfect for aircraft illustration. Being a trained draughtsman is quite an asset.<br />
The script, by Brunt, gives them him full rein to tell the Defiant’s story while at the same time touching on some of the super-secret “boffins’ war” that went on behind the action in the Second World War.<br />
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Upside Down Ace, originally Commando No 572 (August 1971), re-issued as No 1604 (May 1982)<br />
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Script: Brunt<br />
Art: John Ridgway<br />
Cover: Ian Kennedy<br />
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Commando No 4462<br />
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Death Of A Wimpey<br />
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They found an abandoned plane in the desert, sand almost covering it. The paint was hanging off in shreds, the engines had seen better days and the fuselage was riddled with bullet holes. But it was still a Vickers Wellington bomber…one of the tough, famous Wimpeys. And it could fly — just.<br />
So the men who found it, three army deserters and a no-good R.A.F. pilot, began to make plans to get back into the war — flying their own private bomber!<br />
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Introduction by Calum Laird, Commando Editor<br />
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At the end of October last year at the Dundee Comics Day, two men were honoured for their outstanding contribution to the comics artform. Though they are not related, they share the same surname and, as you can see from this book, they have both worked for Commando.<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9WC4RAw7-Dn7KCySKtk3tNzdI9kmj4wbwvGyoHNTwHNaExF6v5FEjnduK09zfh9UWwkNPsOQYw97LenyMnNqFMiovCnx7HFlmQuKCNY0ygpcaL7VQ0InRcsD7urjgxuvF4slV-_3NE0TB/s1600/Comm_4462_coverMaster+copy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9WC4RAw7-Dn7KCySKtk3tNzdI9kmj4wbwvGyoHNTwHNaExF6v5FEjnduK09zfh9UWwkNPsOQYw97LenyMnNqFMiovCnx7HFlmQuKCNY0ygpcaL7VQ0InRcsD7urjgxuvF4slV-_3NE0TB/s320/Comm_4462_coverMaster+copy.jpg" width="247" /></a> I’m talking, of course, about the two Kennedys, Cam and Ian who together have produced the art for this tale. Ian’s cover wonderfully captures a stricken Wellington bomber trying desperately to land, while the characterisation and movement Cam brings to the inside art is outstanding.<br />
…And let’s not forget scriptwriter Ken Gentry without whose contribution this classic Commando story the two Kennedys would never have had the chance to showcase their talents so well.<br />
By the way, I got to present the awards — how cool is that?<br />
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Death of A Wimpey, originally Commando No 469 (April 1970), re-issued as No 1335 (July 1979)<br />
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Script: Ken Gentry<br />
Art: Cam Kennedy<br />
Cover: Ian Kennedy<br />
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Commando © DC Thomson 2012Peter Richardsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15566601617123798061noreply@blogger.com8