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13 July 2025

The Cartoon Art Trust auctions

I've looked at the various publications associated with the Cartoon Art Trust / Cartoon Museum before. 
Newsletters can be found here;
An incomplete look at exhibition catalogues is here

And now for something different - the sales catalogues for two fundraising auctions that Bonhams held back in the 1990s. They may have been other auctions but, for now, these are the only two I'm aware of.

First up is this sale on Tuesday 26th September 1995



The second, "The Cartoon Art Trust Fin de Siecle Charity Auction", was held on Thursday 20th May 1999

This was a much smaller auction, just 40 lots this time. None of the lots have a estimate and I don't know the 'hammer' price on any of the lots. I'd have bid on...

lot 6 - three detailed Brian Bolland sketches for covers to Batman and The Invisibles
lot 21 - 2 pages of V for Vendetta art by David Lloyd
lot 30 - 2000AD cover by John Higgins - featuring Dredd blasting a robot 
lot 31 - Martha Washington title page ('Attack of the flesh-eating monsters') by Dave Gibbons

16 June 2025

UPDATED: Dark they were and golden eyed - adverts

I've long wanted to have a post for all those great vintage adverts for long-gone comic shops, so this is the start of that. 

Got any other adverts for Dark they were and golden eyed? Feel free to share 'em! 3 posters below, 3 different addresses.

art by Jim (James) Cawthorn

art by Jim (James) Cawthorn

art by Bryan Talbot

and now, thanks to friend of the blog Mac Mac Anorak has supplied me with a number of other adverts...

art by Alan Moore, Cyclops issue 3, page 8, Sept. 1970

Art by Brian Bolland, Starburst #1, 1978

art by David Edward Britton, 20/11/69

Bryan Talbot, 1979
Bryan Talbot, 1979

art by Dave Gibbons

art by Dave Gibbons

art by Garry Leach, Starburst #5, 1978

Trev Wright - White Dwarf #2 back cover, Aug/Sept 1977

unknown artist & publication

and now even more adverts - again all images care of Mac Mac Anorak






and now a final

art by Dave Gibbons


art by David Lloyd











12 July 2024

Hellfire fanzine #2+3 - David Roach

I've looked previously at the early work of David Roach and his comics fanzine Hellfire as follows...

Issue 1 here
Issue 3 here
issue 4 here

...and I just wanted to highlight some images from issue 2 (and 3) from ace ebay seller ewan_b

Hellfire issues 2 & 3

not sure if this is from issue 2 or 3 but I've included it as an early example of David's work

not sure if this is from issue 2 or 3 but I've included it as an early example of David's work

I think David drew the comic shop advert on the left of this image

update...here's a better cover image of issue #2


7 March 2024

Shockwave - 1991

I've looked before at some DC reprint titles that appeared in the UK...
DC action! here
Zones here

and now the third and final title - Shockwave - published by London Editions magazines in 1991 for 4 issues. Here's my covers gallery...

Shockwave, issue 1, 1991, 95p, London Editions magazines
Dave McKean cover art

Shockwave, issue 2, 1991, 95p, London Editions magazines
cover art by Brian Bolland

Shockwave, issue 3, 1991, 95p, London Editions magazines
cover art by Joe Brozowski (AKA JJ Birch)

Shockwave, issue 4, 1991, 95p, London Editions magazines
cover art by David Lloyd

the cancellation of the title must have been quite sudden as the cover of this (final) issue carries a banner for part 1 of an interview with Alan Grant.


7 February 2024

Maxwell the magic cat, volume 4

The four slim reprint volumes (published by Acme press) of Alan Moore's Maxwell the magic cat newspaper strips are surely high on the wants list of any Moore aficionado. Volumes 1 and 2 seem a little easier to get hold of than volumes 3 and 4 but I've long been more interested in volumes 3&4 as I knew they had Maxwell work by other artists in.

I looked at volume 3 here

And there's currently a rare chance to get hold of volume 4 (here) - I'm not the seller, instead it's that finder of rare and wonderful comic things Ewan Brownlow (here)


Maxwell the magic cat, art by David Lloyd

Maxwell the magic cat, art by Kevin O'Neill

Maxwell the magic cat, art by Brian Bolland



12 November 2023

Aces Weekly - LFCC 2013

As I'm off to London comic con today I thought I'd highlight this Aces Weekly ashcan comic from 2013 - which, as you'll see from the cover, was an LFCC 2013 exclusive. 16 pages in total, A5 sized. Good luck tracking one of these down.


Cover is by David Hitchcock, interior art is contributed by David Lloyd, David Hitchcock, Ben Dickson, Gavin Mitchell, Bambos Georgiou, Mychailo Kazybird, Yishan Li, Shaky Kane, David Hine, Steve Marchant, John McCrea, Phil Hester, Stephen Baskerville, Martin Griffiths, John Kaine, Kev Hopgood, Ferg Handley, Chris Geary.

My copy is signed by David Lloyd, Stephen Baskerville and Bambos Georgiou



3 June 2022

Atomeka - Bojeffries Terror Tome

A couple of recent purchases (and the death of Garry Leach) has spurred me on to look at Atomeka Press. A look at the Grand Comics database (here) is helpful (thanks for the images!) but incomplete. So, I thought I'd try and rustle up my own complete (?) list of Atomeka publications.

I've looked at the original A1 series (from 1989) here
The Epic comics anthology (from 1992) is here
A1 series (from 1992) is here
Damien Darke is here
Atomeka miscellany
A1 True life bikini confidential is here

Now, thanks to friend of the blog Reuben Willmott we can look at the publication that started me off down this particular rabbit-hole...Yes it's the Bojeffries Terror Tome...
Contents are as follows:
1). Bojeffries - Festus: dawn of the dead [script by Alan Moore; art by Steve Parkhouse]
2). Baby cakes [script by Neil Gaiman; art by Michael Zulli]
3). Mr Monster - monster museum [Michael Gilbert]
4). Hotwire DE [Steve Pugh]
5). The Proxy [script by Ramsey Campbell; art by David Lloyd; lettering by Bambos]
6). Eddy Current - prologue [Ted McKeever]
7). Scarecrow [Charles Vess]
8). Eddy Current - judgement [Ted McKeever]
9). Bojeffries - Song of the terraces [script by Alan Moore; art by Steve Parkhouse]

You'll probably receignised the cover as a recreation of an old Warrior cover...issue 12 to be precise

as editor Dave Elliott points out (see below) the art is by Garry Leach (albeit based on the original Steve Parkhouse cover)

if you look really hard you can spot some subtle differences between the pieces - the background here (below) is different, for instance 


And here's what the cover to issue #2 would have been...again art is by Garry Leach in a Steve Parkhouse style (which he totally nails!)

and here's that picture in colour - thanks Dave!