One thing you notice if you collect enough comics is that certain themes will repeat themselves over and over again. And it’s not only the themes that will repeat themselves, but the stories and the imagery will also. In some cases, it is the composition of the picture that will repeat itself. After all, there are only so many angles that two opposing sides can … Continue reading Throw Away Your Television
It’s not often that the news of the sale of the rights to a back catalogue gets a lot of comic people excited, but the news coming out of Oxford is doing the business this finest August day. Rebellion, the company that currently own 2000AD have bought the rights to the Egmont UK archive. This includes all Fleetway characters created after 1970, so this includes … Continue reading The Kids Are Alright
My first blog post, in this series, was deliberately aimed at looking through the reference books that are out there for people who love their comics. And as you can see from the header image, there are still a lot more that I have yet to mention. In some cases, there are a lot more that I have to find within the house! But in … Continue reading What was that called again? Part 2
When I was thinking about what I could write about next, I was originally going to wax all lyrical about Commando, as I picked up a few that were given away at last week’s Glasgow Comic Con and it is one of the few comics that has been going since I was first introduced to comics and is still as good as ever. But I … Continue reading All our Yesterdays
Third post in and I notice that I have a glaring hole in my blog. And that is the complete lack of copyright notification. This hasn’t been done to “stick it to the man”, but has been an oversight on my part. Imagery of any comic that I post may belong to me, but the over-riding copyright belongs to the producer of that comic. So … Continue reading Keeping it legal
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