28/07/2012
Just found this website. You really must look. Where did they get all this great stuff from ?

24/07/2012
Senior Indonesian comic artist and writer  Raden Ahmad Kosasih ( 4th April 1919 - 24th. July 2012 ) has died of a heart attack on at the age of 93. Better known as R.A.Kosasih he was regarded in his country as the father of comic strip art, a local Jerry Seigal or Joe Schuster. A ‘Komikus Legendaris‘.

18/0/2012

16/07/2012
For all with a soft spot for the history of comics, illustration  and artists, where we come from and good heavens what fascinating  work  was produced,  Steve Holland, freelance author and editor, has established himself as the go to man for the low-down on old British comics, books and magazines.

06/0/2012

24/06/2012
Interesting stuff by Damien Walter at http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/jun/19/women-fighting-back-battle-geek-culture , Tuesday 19 June 2012. Dealing with the imagined, the literary and graphic treatment of women in comics, games, fantasy and science fiction it is a subject well worth consideration.

20/06/20012
Grant Morrison, writer well know for his individualistic scripting in comics  ( All-Star Superman, Animal Man, Batman and Robin, Batman R.I.P., The Filth Final Crisis. The Invisibles, Seven Soldiers, and  Zenith ) is on the honours list as being awarded  Member of The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire "for services to Film and Literature."

17/06/2012
The complete 100 etchings of  Picasso’s Vollard Suite is being shown at The British Museum until September 2012.

13/06/2012

06/05/2012
Ray Bradbury, August  22nd 1920 - June 6th 2012, was the author of more than 27 novels and story collections and more than 600 short stories. Frequently credited as single handedly having  raised the often maligned reputation of the  science fiction genre into the realm of literature.

29/05/2012

23/05/2012

14/05/2012
An occasional series.Bristow by Frank  Dickens is the worlds longest running single author cartoon strip.First published in the Aberdeen Press & Journal on 18th September 1961 . .

12/05/2012
This the remainder of the correspondence between me and an earnest inquiirer about Look-in and a little more.Thanks for all the pictures. Much of this stuff I don’t have copies of. It’s a bit spooky seeing it all.It is obvious I was still struggling to find my own style. Apart from drawing every strip in a somewhat different way there are influences from different sources.

08/05/2012
While still at high school, Maurice Sendak - June 10th 1928 - May 5th 2012 - worked for All-American Comics doing backgrounds and supplying storylines for the Mutt and Jeff strip. In 1951 he illustrated his first book.  He went on to write his own stories. Where the Wild Things Are the most well known of the more than 100 books he illustrated and the 20 he wrote and illustrated .

05/05/2012
Some time ago  I  responded to a questionnaire  about my time with Look-in. The interrogator disappeared and as far as I know my replies were never used.  Waste not want not so here are the answers - questions lost - that have been on my computer all these years.

28/04/2012

21/14/2012
Я очень рад получить комментарии на русском языке, он дает добро пожаловать чувство интернационализма, мира, общности интересов и все такое, но пока они не перестанут быть не более чем список продуктов, которые я боюсь, что они будут продолжать быть удалены.

14/04/2012

06/04/2012
I was lucky enough to receive a copy of Aberrant Necropolis recently. It is a book of photographs by Ellen Rogers - “a handful of highlights of the work Ellen  produced during the period 2008 - 2010.

01/04/2012

27/05/2012
As part of a mild wish to show how inappropriate was the labelling of my work as hyper realistic . .

18/03/2012
Cartoonist Garry Trudeau - Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist Garry Trudeau - has had his daily strip Doonesbury dropped by some US papers due to it’s depiction of a pregnant women seeking an abortion in under the conditions of Texan law.

13/03/2012
A link to the transcript of an interview of Alan Moore by Kurt Amacker

11/03/2012
Jean Henri Gibson Giraud. 8th May 1938 - 10th March 2012.