Too Great A Risk!

Before he began drawing MACH1 for 2000AD, Jesus Redondo had spent over a decade drawing for girls' comics in the UK, mostly for D. C. Thomson in the pages of Diana, Spellbound and others, via the Creaciones agency of Luis Llorente.

Creaciones also picked up other work outside of the regular weekly comics, including work for the Family Planning Information Service, for whom Redondo drew the following 4-page cautionary tale.

Of course, the Holy Grail for collectors of family planning comic strips is a similar pamphlet drawn by Ian Gibson for the same agency. It needs to be preserved for posterity!

 

 

 

The Cutaways of Bruce Cornwell - The Ship’s Crew

The Cutaways of Bruce Cornwell - The Ship’s Crew

by Jeremy Briggs

The cutaways that original Dan Dare artist A Bruce Cornwell produced for Eagle comic and its associated books were covered in Bear Alley here .

While the art that Bruce Cornwell produced for Eagle remains his best known work, it was just a small part of what he produced over the years. In 1953 he wrote and illustrated The Ship’s Crew, one of the Educational Supply Association’s series of books entitled People’s Jobs. While it is little known now this book proved surprisingly popular at the time and in 1955 a second edition was published that was reprinted at least three more times into the 1960s.

As a former merchant seaman Bruce was able to use his own experience to create a fictional passenger and cargo ship the TS Neptune which the book followed as it loaded passengers and cargo in London and set sail for the Tropics.

The book featured several cutaways including one of the Neptune itself for the book’s frontispiece, while the main body of the book include clear link cutaways of both the Captain’s cabin and the ship’s Radio Officer’s cabin and office.

Asked if he did any other cutaways for publications other than Eagle and this book Bruce’s answer was an emphatic, “yes, but who they were for I can’t remember, except one and that was Pilkingtons the glass firm. I worked through a PR agency and the work covered buildings, engineering projects, engines and whatever.”

(The original version of this article was published in Eagle Times v25 #1, Spring 2012. Since this article was first published it has been discovered that Bruce Cornwell’s work for Pilkington Brothers Ltd included cutaways for the Sea City concept that was first announced in 1968 and was featured in the TV21 annual cover dated 1971).

The Eagle Cutaways of Bruce Cornwell

The Eagle Cutaways of Bruce Cornwell

by Jeremy Briggs

One of the staples of Eagle comic over its nineteen years was the cutaway. These fascinating and educational illustrations weathered the changes to the comic throughout the 1950s and 1960s, running with few gaps from an electric train in the first issue to a truck in the penultimate issue. Both these cutaways were illustrated by Leslie Ashwell Wood who was by far the most prolific cutaway artist Eagle had, contributing almost two thirds of the near 960 cutaways published in the weekly title.

While not all the cutaways are signed and therefore attributable to a specific artist, there were at least 23 artists other than Wood who contributed cutaways, from the familiar names of J Walkden Fisher with 59, Lawrence Dunn with 48 plus Geoffrey Wheeler and John Batchelor with 44 each, to the less familiar names of Brian Watson, T C Renwick-Adams and Alan Crisp who provided one each. One familiar name not normally associated with the Eagle cutaways is Dan Dare artist A Bruce Cornwell.

Bruce Cornwell’s earliest published Eagle cutaways were of the Rotor Cruiser and the Theron Duty Cutter for the 1953 Dan Dare Spacebook, not done in the coloured half centrespread style of the comic at the time but as highly detailed full page black and white images in keeping with the rest of the Space Book. Ten years later he would also draw several more simplified cutaways as part of larger articles in the 1963 Dan Dare Space Annual with one, the Faroe Jet, signed with his ABC initials.

None of these black and white cutaways were in the style of those that the weekly comic was known for. However he did paint four colour cutaways for the weekly Eagle and, perhaps unsurprising for a former merchant seaman, they were all of ships. Bruce remembered that “the subjects were all chosen by the editor, but I always wrote the text and key.” As to whether the amount of detail in the illustrations required him to increase the size of his original artwork he recalled, “sometimes it was half up or one up but never any larger.”

The first of these colour cutaways appeared in Eagle v11 #37 (dated 10 September 1960) and showed the passenger/cargo ship, RMS Windsor Castle, which was then used by its owners, Union Castle Line, to sail between England and South Africa. The ship had a relatively tall superstructure and funnel in comparison to its length and to help overcome this within the confines of the requirement for a long, narrow illustration, he buried the lower bow well into the sea and effectively off the page to allow more room for the height required.

In v12 #4 (28 January 1961), at a time before communications satellites, HM Telegraph Ship Monarch, operated by the state run General Post Office, provided the means of worldwide communication by laying undersea cables. When asked if he had ever had the chance to see or visit any of the cutaway subjects before he began his work, Bruce remembered, “Only Monarch, I went on board when she was up the Thames loading cable. The design department were very helpful in supplying me with a roll of blueprints.”

Asked what the response if any there was to his cutaways in the comic, he recalled, “When Eagle published the Monarch work the GPO contacted me to produce another cutaway for them, of course it was a different angle but with the same detail. They wanted to send it to schools who were always requesting details.”

Rather closer to home in v13 #32 (11 August 1962) was the Woolwich car and passenger ferry which ploughed its trade on the Thames between Woolwich and North Woolwich. Of the four ships that he produced cutaways for Eagle of the Woolwich ferry was the one that had the best chance that Eagle readers would actually travel on. How then was he able to get enough information on the vessels to make the cutaways accurate and was there a need to make educated guesswork? “No guesswork ever,” replied Bruce emphatically, “there’s always some ‘clever’ individual out there waiting to pull you up.” However the Woolwich ferry did pose a different challenge, “I had to dig out information on the new Woolwich ferry only to find out that it had been ordered but not built. The agency supplied me with engineer’s plans and wished me luck!”

Bruce Cornwell’s final weekly Eagle cutaway was of the first of only four civilian nuclear powered cargo ships ever built, the NS Savannah. This ship was operated by the American State Marine Lines and the cutaway appeared in v13 #52 (29 December 1962). To modern eyes this is perhaps the most usual subject of the four cutaways but the Savannah was in service from 1962 until 1972 and still exists today berthed at Baltimore in the United States where she has been declared a Historic National Landmark.

There are a few other cutaways by Bruce Cornwell associated with Eagle that are worth mentioning. In 1952 he illustrated a short factual series entitled Ships Through the Ages and, as part of the 16th And 17th Century Craft section of this in Eagle v3 #8 (30 May 1952) he presented the sectional cutaway of a high-sterned Elizabethan warship in a large, signed panel.

However there was another Eagle cutaway that he did even before the first issue of the comic was published that was, ironically, his last cutaway to be published. The illustration was of Dan Dare’s Number 2 rocket ship from the Voyage to Venus story. “Frank requested it”, Bruce recalls, “even the layout and left the job to me. This was before we went to press. He was pleased with the finished job, but after that, I don’t know what happened to it.”

What happened to it was that it lay forgotten for decades until it was rediscovered and was finally published, along with a new key devised by Bruce himself listing its different sections, as the colour centrespread of Spaceship Away issue 22 in Autumn 2010.

His most detailed Eagle cutaways were his four ships. Asked if he enjoyed the challenge of painting his four main Eagle cutaways Bruce replied, “I did enjoy them; the sea and ships have always been a passion of mine.”

(I was fortunate to correspond with Bruce Cornwell for a year or so before he passed away on 2 March 2012 during which time he helped me in writing several articles on his non-Dan Dare work, articles that were written for Eagle Times, the journal of the Eagle Society. Bruce was generous with his time while his memory of events, people and his work from more than half a century beforehand was quite remarkable. This article on his cutaway work was the last one I completed with his help. The original version of this article was published in Eagle Times v25 #1, Spring 2012).

Eaglewall Plastic Kits in Eagle Comic

Eaglewall Plastic Kits in Eagle Comic

by Jeremy Briggs

In Eagle Times v25 #3 (and reprinted here on Bear Alley) I reviewed Donald D Hood’s 2011 book Eaglewall's Table Top Navy on the history and products of Eaglewall Plastics Limited, the company that produced aircraft and naval plastic construction kits under the Eagle comic logo during the late 1950s and early 1960s.

The publisher of the book, Chris Daley Publishing, has since ceased trading however the book covered the company that began in the Surrey town of Dorking under the name Vulcan producing 1/96 scale kits of WWII planes before changing their name to Eaglewall and licensing the Eagle logo.

They re-released their aircraft kits under the Eagle logo and also began to produce the 1/1200 scale WWII naval ships that they are best known for. The book detailed the history of the company and focussed on the naval ships that they produced. Given that it was written by an American and published in the USA, it covered the history of the small British company that had ceased trading half a century beforehand in remarkable detail. As the book was written from an American plastic modeller’s point of view, references to Eagle comic were fleeting and Hood was unable to discover a reason for the licensing of the Eagle logo and the change of the company’s name from Vulcan to Eaglewall. He also missed the fact that Dan Dare artist Harold Johns painted, and signed with his standard “H JOHNS” signature, their box top illustration for HMS Orion.

As dating evidence for when certain kits were available, as well as when the company moved from Dorking to Brighton, the book gives some detail on the adverts that the company ran in RAF Flying Review magazine beginning with a Vulcan advert in December 1957. In the review I opined that it seemed to me that the obvious place for Eaglewall to advertise their Eagle kits would be in Eagle comic itself but Hood was apparently unable to access a collector with a large enough collection of comics to be able to do the same advert research for Eagle as he did for RAF Flying Review.

Since that review appeared Eagle Society member David Gould has come to my aid regarding Eaglewall advertising in Eagle itself and was able to point out they didn’t just run adverts in the comic but were also featured repeatedly in Eagle Window. Eagle Window was a mini-feature on the licensed merchandise associated with the comic that often appeared in the editorial page and is a handy reference for collectors for not only what merchandise was available but also when it was available. Eaglewall kits appeared five times in Eagle Window with each appearance featured their aircraft rather than their ships. It is notable that the first of these Eagle Windows does not mention the Eaglewall company by name while the rest of them do.
    
The five Eagle Windows and the kits that they featured are as follows –

Volume 9 Number 35 dated 30 August 1958: Hawker Hurricane Mk2

Volume 9 Number 41 dated 11 October 1958: Junkers Ju87B Stuka

Volume 10 Number 3 dated 17 January 1959: Messerschmitt Bf109G

Volume 10 Number 4 dated 24 January 1959: North American P-51C Mustang

Volume 10 Number 36 dated 24 October 1959: Hawker Typhoon 1B

In addition to these Eagle Windows, Eaglewall adverts appeared in four issues of Eagle. The same advert, with the punning strap line “In Formation (Information) For Collectors” featuring all nine of their aircraft kits, appeared in three issues (17 January 1959, 21 February 1959 and 28 February 1959 all with the company’s Dorking address) and this was followed much later by a single advert for their ships (18 June 1960 with the Brighton address).

The Eaglewall aircraft adverts were an eighth of a page in size while the single ship advert was a quarter of a page. It is interesting to note that other plastic kit manufacturers advertising in Eagle around the same time, including Airfix and Aurora, ran quarter page and half page adverts which would suggest that the Eaglewall company was running on a much smaller advertising budget than its larger rivals. It is also worth noting that the Eagle Window in the 17 January 1959 issue directly refers to the Eaglewall aircraft advert in the same issue.

In a similar fashion the ships advert in the 18 June 1960 issue which features the kits of HMS Cossack and the German prison ship Altmark makes mention of L Ashwell Wood’s cutaway in the next issue, Volume 11 Number 26 dated 25 June 1960, which shows Cossack’s discovery of the prison ship and which is entitled The Epic Of The Altmark. This shows that Eaglewall had some knowledge of the comic’s editorial schedule.
 

The pricing of the kits is interesting given that they are all 3/- (36 old pence) in the first four Eagle Windows as well as in the aircraft adverts which all appear in or before the 28 February 1959 issue of Eagle. By the time of the fifth Eagle Window on 24 October 1959 the Typhoon, which was included in the aircraft adverts, has the considerably lower price of 1/11 (23 old pence) which the ships advert of 18 June 1960 shows was standard across the naval ships range. Presumably by this point all the other aircraft kits had been reduced to this same price point as well.

David Gould was also able to point out that Eaglewall participated in two of the Boys and Girls Exhibitions at Olympia in London, those held in August 1960 and August 1961. These were both promoted in Eagle with mentions of Eaglewall’s 1960 appearance in Volume 11 Number 29 dated 16 July, and their 1961 appearance in Volume 12 Number 27 dated 8 July.

For the 1960 show the company laid on a display featuring the sinking of the German battleship Bismark and attendees were encouraged to enter a prize competition which required them to answer ten questions on the naval battle. As he attended both events, David was able to say that Eaglewall’s “special surprise feature” mentioned for the 1961 event was actually a plastic injection moulding press that allowed attendees to ‘manufacture’ their own kit.   

Given that the earliest Eagle Window in the issue dated 30 August 1958 suggests that the Hawker Hurricane kit that it is promoting is new (under the Eagle logo at least, given that it had already been released as a Vulcan kit), and that RAF Flying Review has a Vulcan advert in the December 1957 issue and an Eaglewall/Eagle advert in the September 1958 issue, we can assume that the licensing of the Eagle name must have taken place in the first half of 1958.

As to when the company dropped the Eagle license, Donald Hood’s book states that the last known Eaglewall advert mentioning Eagle (presumably in RAF Flying Review) was in January 1961 and the first known Eaglewall advert without Eagle was in May 1962. While this is quite a wide time period, given that Eaglewall attended the Olympia exhibition in August 1961 and were still mentioned in Eagle comic we can safely place the dropping of the licence to after August of that year.

While the Table Top Navy book inevitably concentrates on the naval ships produced by the company, it also details the other kits released under the Vulcan and Eaglewall company names as well as listing a set of kits of larger WWII aircraft, the “New Eaglewall Table Top Air Force”, that never made it to the shops before the company went into voluntary liquidation in March 1963.

What the book does not mention is the set of six 54mm Dan Dare figures that were released by the company under its Eaglewall name while based in Dorking and detailed by Ted Herbert in his article on Dan Dare Figures in Eagle Times v24 #4. These are the figures whose moulds passed to Kentoys and which continued to be produced under that company’s name after Eaglewall closed. Indeed the book does not mention Eaglewall producing any plastic toy figures, Dan Dare or otherwise, so this aspect of their manufacturing portfolio remains something of a mystery.

Could the licensing of the Eagle name for the kits have come about because of the dealings that the company had with Hultons over these Dan Dare figures? We may never know. Yet while there is still much to learn about the little Dorking firm of Eaglewall and their links to Eagle comic, David Gould has helped us fill in a few more of the gaps in their history.

(The original version of this article appeared in Eagle Times v27 #3 dated Autumn 2014.)

British comics podcasts and broadcasts

2000AD Thrillcast
I don't think I've mentioned that there's a new 2000AD-related podcast now available. The new 2000AD Thrillcast has been running for a couple of weeks, hosted by 2K's PR droid Michael Molcher. The new show a based around the new Hachette series of Judge Dredd graphic novel reprints and has so far covered the America, Mechanismo and Apocalypse War storylines, with interviews with artists Colin McNeil and Carlos Ezquerra and editor Matt Smith amongst others.

Looking back at these stories makes you realise just how rich the Judge Dredd universe has become in the past 30 years. It's well worth listening to Chris Sims of Comics Alliance talking about Dredd's world in the first half of the third episode.

Available from:
Soundcloud
iTunes

Everything Comes Back to 2000AD
This has been running for six years now, originally hosted by Geek Syndicate, and I've dipped in an out over that time. In essence, a couple of fans chat about the latest issues of 2000AD. Some of the strips they like, some of them not so much. Rich McAuliffe, Flint and Pete Wells are the main hosts for this often funny, often sweary trip through the worlds of 2000AD and the Megazine, which earned its own podcast in 2010.

Available from:
Website
iTunes

Panel Borders
Alex Fitch has hosted a regular show about comics for many years and often concentrates on British comics, especially the small press. The shows are broadcast on Resonance 104.4 FM and posted for download at the Panel Borders website.

Available from
Website

(* If you know of any other podcast that covers British comics, old or new, let me know.)

Dodgem Logic

Dodgem Logic was often described as Alan Moore's fanzine, but might have been better described as a magazine filled mostly by people who knew Alan. For a fanzine it was actually quite a well-paying market, with Moore in the background financing the publication. Unfortunately, I think it became a bit of drain on him due to high costs and low sales. You can't argue that it was a good-looking magazine and a brave experiment; at the same time it lacked direction and was too off-the-wall to develop a regular readership. Sometimes you need a Constable landscape amongst the Dali and Bosche weirdness to give people a breather. I suspect that's why I—odd but ploddingly so—was asked to write a couple of pieces. It was fun while it lasted.

Dodgem Logic [#1, December 2009] (40pp, £2.50, cover by Tamara Rogers & Alan Moore)
Ed. Alan Moore & Queen Calluz
* Moore, Alan * Great Hipsters in History, numbers 1-3 * ms; illus. Queen Calluz
1 * Moore, Alan * Welcome to Dodgem Logic * ed
2 * Moore, Alan * Going Underground * ar
8 * Ashby, Claire * The Birth of Urban Guerrilla Gardening * cs; illus. Claire Ashby
12 * Linehan, Graham * Twitter Ye Not * ar; illus. Michael Kupperman
14 * Jarret, Wendy * Eat to the Beat * cl
16 * Musson, Alex * Daily Mustard * hu; illus. Simon Cooper
18 * Payne, Tamsyn * Stitch This * cl
20 * Moore, Alan * The End of the Line * cs; illus. Alan Moore
21 * Hamilton, Dave * The Eco Chamber * cl; illus. Ellie Mains
23 * O’Neill, Kevin * (untitled comic strip) * cs; illus. Kevin O’Neill
24 * Long, Josie * Love * cs; illus. Josie Long
26 * Aylett, Steve * If Armstrong Was Interesting * ss * Toxicology, Four Walls Eight Windows, 1999
28 * Pindling, Lejome * World of Illuzion * cl
29 * Pencil, Savage * Snotto the Clown * cs; illus. Savage Pencil
30 * Nervy, Doctor & Doctor Feelgood * The Spinning Doctors * cl
32 * Gebbie, Melinda * What’s Her Problem? * ar; illus. Melinda Gebbie
34 * Ingham, Gary * Stuck in the Middle * ar
40 * [Misc. Material] * Contributors & Local Services * cl
Giveaway: Notes from Noho
1 * Marprelate, Martin * Things To Do In Semilong When You’re Dead * ss
5 * Moore, Alan * The Destructor * ar
6 * Ingham, Gary * Local Music Reviews * cl
7 * Adams, Norman * Beyond the Norm * cl

Dodgem Logic [#2, February-March 2010] (40pp, £2.50, cover photo by Mitch Jenkins)
Three alternate covers.
* Moore, Alan * Great Hipsters in History, numbers 4-6 * ms; illus. Queen Calluz
1 * Moore, Alan * Roll Up…. * ed
2 * Moore, Alan * Fear of a Black Flag * ar
6 * Ashby, Claire * Urban Guerrilla’s Guide to (Confidence) * cs; illus. Claire Ashby
8 * Killjoy, Margaret * Take What You Need and Compost the Rest * ar
12 * Aylett, Steve * Johnny Viable [Part 1 of ?] * cs
14 * Thorpe, James * All Tomorrow’s Parties * ar; illus. photos
16 * Pindling, Lejome * World of Illuzion * cl
17 * Gebbie, Melinda * Kitten Goddess Bitch: The Burleekew * ar; illus. photos by Mitch Jenkins
25 * Pencil, Savage * Mr Inferno in Cocktails with Satan * cs; illus. Savage Pencil
26 * Moore, Steve * Northamptonshire Strange * ar
28 * Jarret, Wendy * Eat to the Beat * cl
30 * Musson, Alex * Daily Mustard * hu; illus. Simon Cooper, Heidi Spets, James Burley
32 * Payne, Tamsyn * Stitch This * cl
34 * Tinc * What’s Her Problem?: Council Crap * ar
35 * O’Neill, Kevin * (untitled cartoon) * ct; illus. Kevin O’Neill
36 * Hamilton, Dave * The Eco Chamber * cl; illus. Ellie Mains
38 * Nervy, Doctor & Doctor Feelgood * The Spinning Doctors * cl
40 * [Misc. Material] * Contributors & Local Services * cl
Giveaway: Notes from Noho
1 * Marprelate, Martin * An Unexpected View of the Sea from Northampton * ss
4 * Ingham, Gary * Local Music Reviews * cl
6 * Adams, Norman * Beyond the Norm * cl
8 * Moore, Alan * The Destructor Diaries * ar

Dodgem Logic [#3, April-May 2010] (64pp, £3.50, cover by Alan Moore)
* Moore, Alan * Great Hipsters in History, numbers 7-9 * ms; illus. Queen Calluz
1 * Moore, Alan * You Know What We Should Do? * ed
2 * Moore, Alan * Magic, Running in the Gutters Like Lightning * ar
10 * Burdett, Richard * The World’s First Homeless Superhero * ar
12 * Ince, Robin * Pointless Anger Riteous Ire * ar
14 * Killjoy, Margaret * “Cooperative Scavenging” * ar
16 * Matthews, Ged * Out with the Old New, in with the New Old * ar; illus. Susannah Hogan
19 * Pencil, Savage * Savage Pencil’s Scraps from the 70s * cs; illus. Savage Pencil
20 * Mills, Garry * The Planners & the Planned * ar
24 * Pindling, Lejome * World of Illuzion * cl
25 * O’Neill, Kevin * (untitled cartoon) * ct; illus. Kevin O’Neill
26 * Novak, Alex * Tales from Phonographic Oceans … Take a Dip Part One * ar
28 * Moore, Steve * Decades of Decadence * ar
32 * Musson, Alex * Daily Mustard * hu; illus. Simon Cooper, Andrew Waugh
34 * Gebbie, Melinda * Barbary Coasters Part One: I Went to the City… * ar
38 * Hamilton, Dave * The Eco Chamber * cl; illus. Ellie Mains
40 * Bill, ‘Ol * All Coppers Are Rascals * ss
44 * Dazer * “He Who ‘Darez’ Wins” * ar; illus. photos
48 * Aylett, Steve * Johnny Viable [Part 2 of 2] * cs
51 * [Misc. Material] * (previously unpublished cover for Heartbreak Hotel) * il; illus. Alan Moore
52 * Keeling, Mary * What’s Her Problem?: “To Be Perfectly Honest…” * ar
54 * Long, Josie * Some Advice * cs; illus. Josie Long
56 * Jarret, Wendy * Eat to the Beat * cl
58 * Payne, Tamsyn * Stitch This * cl
60 * Nervy, Doctor & Doctor Feelgood * The Spinning Doctors * cl
62 * Ashby, Claire * The Urban Guerrilla Gardeners Guide to Growing Seeds * cs; illus. Claire Ashby
64 * [Misc. Material] * We Name the Guilty Parties * cl
Giveaway: Notes from Noho
1 * Marprelate, Martin * She Will Never Be Defeated * ss
4 * Ingham, Gary * Local Music Reviews * cl
6 * Adams, Norman * Beyond the Norm * cl
8 * Moore, Alan * Flowers in the Rubble * ar

Dodgem Logic [#4, June-July 2010]
(contents not known)

Dodgem Logic [#5. August-September 2010] (64pp, £3.50, cover photo)
* Moore, Alan * Great Hipsters in History, numbers 13-15 * ms; illus. Queen Calluz
1 * Moore, Alan * Don’t Touch That Dial * ed
2 * Moore, Alan * From That Dirt * ar; illus. photos by Mitch Jenkins
10 * Ince, Robin * The Wastepaper Basket Of My Mind part 1 * ar
12 * Love, D. Wayne * Genet—Short, Bad & Beautiful * ar; illus. Melinda Gebbie
14 * Holland, Steve * The Perfect Storm * ar
20 * Hamilton, Dave * The Eco Chamber * cl; illus. Ellie Mains
22 * Musson, Alex * Daily Mustard * hu; illus. Simon Cooper, Andrew Waugh
24 * Aylett, Steve * Bye, Monster * ex * extract from Novahead (Scar Garden Press, Apr 2011)
27 * Pencil, Savage * Louis Louis Louis Louis * cs; illus. Savage Pencil
28 * Moore, Alan * Burroughs * ar
30 * Pickard, Tom * More Pricks Than Prizes * ar; illus. Melinda Gebbie
42 * Pindling, Lejome * World of Illuzion * cl
43 * Farmer, Barney * Bwoken Bwitain * cs; illus. Lee Healey
44 * Killjoy, Margaret * How to Survive the Collapse of Civilization * ar
46 * Underwood, David * Skateboarding is Not a Crime * ar
48 * Long, Josie * My Stupid Opinions! * cs; illus. Josie Long
50 * Gebbie, Melinda * Blown by the Wind * ar
55 * O’Neill, Kevin * (untitled cartoon) * ct; illus. Kevin O’Neill
56 * Nervy, Doctor & Doctor Feelgood * The Spinning Doctors * cl
58 * Jarret, Wendy * Eat to the Beat * cl
60 * Ashby, Claire * A Message from the Urban Guerrilla Gardener * cs; illus. Claire Ashby
62 * Payne, Tamsyn * Stitch This * cl
64 * [Misc. Material] * Who Is Responsible For All This? * cl
Giveaway: Notes from Noho
1 * Marprelate, Martin * The Return of Vince Dates * ss
4 * Ingham, Gary * Are Your Dreams 3 Sizes Too Big at Night * ar
6 * Adams, Norman * Beyond the Norm * cl
8 * Moore, Alan * Sarajevo Nights * ar

Dodgem Logic [#6, October-November 2010]
(contents not known)

Dodgem Logic [#7, December 2010-January 2011] (72pp, £3.50, cover by Kevin O’Neill)
* Moore, Alan * Great Hipsters in History, numbers 19-21 * ms; illus. Queen Calluz
1 * Moore, Alan * Here Comes Fatty With His Sack of Shit * ed
2 * Musson, Alex * Daily Mustard * hu; illus. Simon Cooper, Andrew Waugh
4 * Moore, Alan * Cold Reading * ss
12 * [Misc. Material] * (untitled illustrations) * il; illus. Kristian Hammerstad
14 * Holland, Steve * Lama From Devon * ar
18 * Harrison, Orlando * Ghost Doctor * ar; illus. Jonny Delafonz
21 * Farmer, Barney * Big Jobs * cs; illus. Lee Healey
22 * Amacker, Kurt * A Sinner in the House of the Lord * ar
26 * Ince, Robin * Turn This Thing Off, It’s Confusing Me * ar
28 * Pindling, Lejome * World of Illuzion * cl
29 * Aylett, Steve * Mayor Nimble Makes It Known * cs
32 * Lee, Stewart * Making the Case for the Super Moby Dick of Space * ar
34 * Truckleton, Miss Enid * We Are Rubber, We Are Glue * lt
36 * Bill, ‘Ol * Requiem for a Bent Copper * ss
42 * Quantick, David * Louis Wain * cs; illus. Savage Pencil
44 * Foreman, Dick * Have Moicy! * ar
46 * Gebbie, Melinda * Absolutely Favelas * ar; illus. photos
50 * Long, Josie * Date With Ikea * cs; illus. Josie Long
52 * Hamilton, Dave * The Eco Chamber * cl; illus. Ellie Mains
54 * Killjoy, Margaret * The Gods of the Trash * ar
56 * Payne, Tamsyn * Stitch This * cl
58 * Ashby, Claire * The Urban Guerrilla Gardener’s Tips for Autumn and Winter Type Stuff * cs; illus. Claire Ashby
60 * Jarret, Wendy * Eat to the Beat * cl
62 * Nervy, Doctor & Doctor Feelgood * The Spinning Doctors * cl
64 * Marprelate, Martin * The Pawprints of Noho * ss
67 * Ingham, Gary * Write It Like You Stole It * ar
69 * Adams, Norman * Beyond the Norm * cl
71 * Moore, Alan * Captain Oates is going to the shops. He may be some time * ar
72 * [Misc. Material] * Contributors * cl
* O’Neill, Kevin * Christmas Capers with Lady Gaga * cs; illus. Kevin O’Neill

Dodgem Logic [#8, 2011]
(contents not known)

Pink Floyd parody Roy of the Rovers

I stumbled across this at the Magforum website... The Pink Floyd Super All-Action Official Music Programme for Boys and Girls, the Pink Floyd 1974 tour programme, which contained a quartet of comic strips, each based on one of the band members. They were all drawn in a different style but the influence of traditional British comics was obvious: the one-page strip featuring Roger Waters was entitled 'Rog of the Rovers' and ... well, if the title wasn't enough you can see from the strip below that it's a Roy of the Rovers parody. Other strips included a war picture library parody and something that might have been based on Tiger's speedway yarn 'Talon of the Track'.

The scans here are from Captain Storm's The Yellowed Pages website – where you can find the rest of the programme. This was from the 1974 UK tour which ended at the Empire Pool, Wembley, on 17 November, before heading out to the USA in 1975, where the programme was also available ... although you have to wonder what Floyd's American fans made of it.

The cover art was by Paul Stubbs but I have to admit that I'm not 100% sure who drew the strips – bar the MAD Magazine/Playboy parody, 'Rich Right', which was signed by Joe Petagno, who also drew the back page. Paul Stubbs and Richard Evans may have been the main artists.

 

(* scans of other strips here.)