One of my Live Journal friends, Glycon, has posted up scans of a Society of Strip Illustration newsletter from 1981. Remember 1981? Back when the term ‘strip illustration’ didn’t mean tattooed lap dancers taking their clothes off and newsletters were produced on actual paper rather than email and all done without the aid of DTP. And very glad of these kinds of publications most fans were in the days before we could swap news stories, interviews and reviews by the web. The scans have been cleaned up a bit by David Lloyd, who explains the different comics writers featured all replied on typed paper, which was then simply cut and pasted (i.e. really, physically cut and pasted, not CTRL C and V), hence the charming mismatched look lines can have, which was all part of the fun of these titles.
The writers featured are Angus Allan, Pat Mills, Steve Moore, Steve Parkhouse and a hopeful young chap called Alan Moore. Its 1981, Thatcher is in power, unemployment is rife in Britain, two-tone music is still cool, 2000AD is still the hip new comics kid on the block and a whole bunch of comics writers are discussing how writers interact with their artists and looking to the future. Got to love the internet, bringing old items like this back and making it accessible to everyone.
May 9th, 2007 at 7:13 am
2 Tone is still cool. Always will be.
May 9th, 2007 at 9:37 pm
That Glycon chap is very good to do all that, all the same!