Again, nothing is known about Gale apart from a single contribution to Swift Annual 1961 (1960) and a couple of illustrated books. Illustra...

Walkden Fisher contributed only a single item to Swift Annual 4 (1958), a double-page feature on underground trains. Nowadays he is remembe...

Perfectly Normal Productions and BBC Audiobooks have announced that they have signed a deal to create "compelling, high quality audio e...

Jill Francksen (sometimes spelled Franksen) contributed to Swift Annual 5 (1958) and 7 (1960) plus Robin Annual 9 (1961). I've not bee...

Serge Drigin, sometimes spelled Sergie, Sergey or Serge R. Drigin, was a Russian artist, born on 8 October 1894, who, without formal trainin...

Roland Oxford Davies was a highly prolific artist with a career spanning six decades during which time he carved out two careers, one as a c...

This week's annuals' sales chart: Doctor Who Annual (29,838) is in the top 10 seller's list for a second week but still a long ...

I was just about to say that it sounds like a typo because I couldn't find any mention of anyone called Degil when I stumbled across a c...

An artist I would love to know more about. I was something of a fan of Eric Dadswell's art long before I knew his name as he was the art...

Just a brief note to say that the seventh volume of The Trigan Empire--The Collection series is out now. Chronologically, this is book 3 in...

Philip Mendoza has always intrigued me because I've never been able to find out too much about him yet he connects two of my favourite h...

A slightly random entry. I believe Christine Gittings was a sub-editor on Jack & Jill comic in the mid-1950s (there was certainly a Mis...

A positive review of Great British Comics by Paul Gravett & Paul Stanbury in The Times , ' The Comic Strip Grows Up ' (25 Novem...

John Brinkley contributed to Swift Annual 3 to 5 (1956-58). No idea if he's the same guy who wrote the following books but there's ...