It was 1988 before I finally realised how bloody good and important 2000AD was. I was a teen of 17, and had been working at Nostalgia & Comics Birmingham since finishing my O-Levels in ’87. Now at Sixth Form and doing A-Levels, I’d seen a lot of 2000ADs, yet had never really taken much notice [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, January 11, 2012
This week’s 2000 AD cover (for Prog 1765) made me smile – a Nikolai Dante cover with the fine Steve Yeowell pastiching pop artist Lichtenstein, which seems fair given Lichtenstein made money emulating (some say copying) comics artist’s work without attribution or recompense, so turn around by parodying his approach seems like fair game to [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, August 5, 2009
Well 21. I was recently home clearing out a load of stuff my dad left when he died early in the year and amongst the things he had kept was a little insert magazine I had written with my business partner Jim Hamilton. It was called ‘Cut Comics 88′ and we produced it for the [...]
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Sunday, February 26, 2012
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