Its 1986 and suddenly all the kids are talking about a new comic…

Mon, Feb 23, 2009

Comics and cartoons

The irreplaceable Lew Stringer has posted up a real little historical gem – a scan of an article on comics from the long-gone Today newspaper from 1986 which features a young journalist named Neil Gaiman discussing comics and particularly a new and challenging work called Watchmen…

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(Neil Gaiman’s article on comics and Watchmen from 1986, shamelessly pinched from Lew Stringer, who has the whole thing at a much larger scale, go and look)

Elsewhere on his blog Lew decides ahead of the upcoming publication of the first part of the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century to have a look back at the early career of one Mister Kevin O’Neill – some of it I’m slightly familiar with (such as some of the horror comics work) but a lot of it is new to me, including this killer shark which ends up with a harpoon in its front, a year before the (in)famous Hook Jaw appeared on the scene. Very interesting. (thanks to Matt B for the links)

Kevin ONeill shark.jpg

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