UPDATED: Glasgow comic art convention, 1990-95

I've recently look at a lot at the various programmes produced to tie-in with various comic conventions...

Bristol comic expo (2004-2014) is here
London comic festival 2003 is here
Kev Sutherland festival original art is here
A 'Lawless 2019' miscellany is here
Boys and Girls exhibitions of the 1950s and '60s is here

Updated: Glasgow Comic Art Convention 1991 brochure added to the listing

...and today it's the turn of The Glasgow comic art convention (GCAC), which ran from 1990-95...I've included the listing of all those that contribute pin-ups to these programmes. These are great and well worth tracking down.

Glasgow comic art convention, 1990, A4, 68 pages, cover art by Ian Gibson

Glasgow comic art convention, 1991, A4, 68 pages, cover art by Colin MacNeil

Glasgow comic art convention, 1992, A4, 68 pages, cover art by Jamie Hewlett

 Glasgow comic art convention, 1993, A4, 72 pages, cover by Steve Pugh

Glasgow comic art convention, 1994, A5, 64 pages, cover by Mark Buckingham

Glasgow comic art convention, 1995, A5, 16 pages, cover by Steve Yeowell

interior art by Thomas Creilly, Darryl Cunningham, Craig Dixon, Mike Hadley, Robert McCallum, Jim O'Reday and Frank Quitely

Ian Gibson - Annie

This upcoming (on Monday 7th April 2025) auction lot here features 2 pages of Ian Gibson original comic artwork. The (DC branded) board is marked as "Annie book 4" and "Annie Droid #5, Shaddy's tale, Disposable hero 2" but I can't seem to find these comics listed anywhere online. Can any more knowledgeable Ian Gibson fans out there help me out??

Bidding starts at £60, good luck if you bid. 

Boom! sells for a hammer price of £110

Maxwell the magic cat, volume 3

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.

Below we have the artistic highlights of volume 3 - the original art of these images (along with those in volume 4) were all auctioned off at UKCAC87 for charity.

Art by Bryan Talbot

Art by Garry Leach

Art by John Bolton

Art by Graham Higgins (top) and Dave Gibbons (bottom)

Art by Ian Gibson

this fast-driving truck driver is clearing dead cats off the front of his cab - nice!

Short Fuse #1

A while ago (here to be precise) I looked at some 2000AD images that had never been published in Short Fuse fanzine.  Thanks to the feedback I go I've put together the 2000AD images that did make it into Short Fuse. In this case, issue 1. 

My thanks to Mac Mac Anorak on the '2000AD and Eagle comic fans' Facebook group for sharing these images.

The cover to issue #1 - by Ian Gibson

this was the centrespread - art by Ron Smith

art by Brian Bolland and Dave Gibbons

art by Kevin O'Neill

Steed & Mrs Peel - Ian Gibson & Grant Morrison

Everyone's go a lockdown project right? One of mine has been to complete those runs of comics where I'd picked up the odd issue here and there without ever actually completing the run and being able to, y'know, actually read the comics.

Anyway this week, to celebrate completing my run of 'Steed and Mrs Peel' comic, I'll be treating myself to a whole lot of Ian Gibson artwork as I settle down and finally read 'Steed and Mrs Peel'. 

Note that 'The golden game' is written by Grant Morrison and 'The deadly game' by Anne Caulfield.

Here's a covers gallery... 

Steed and Mrs Peel comic 1 (of 6) - art by Ian Gibson, script by Grant Morrison, published by Boom studios in 2012 

Contains 'The Golden game - part 1'

Steed and Mrs Peel comic 2 (of 6) - art by Ian Gibson, script by Grant Morrison, published by Boom studios in 2012 

Contains 'The Golden game - part 2'

Steed and Mrs Peel comic 3 (of 6) - art by Ian Gibson, script by Grant Morrison, published by Boom studios in 2012 

Contains 'The Golden game - part 3'

Steed and Mrs Peel comic 4 (of 6) - art by Ian Gibson, script by Grant Morrison, published by Boom studios in 2012 

Contains 'The Golden game - part 4'

Steed and Mrs Peel comic 5 (of 6) - art by Ian Gibson, script by Anne Caulfield, published by Boom studios in 2012 

Contains 'Deadly rainbow - part 1'

Steed and Mrs Peel comic 6 (of 6) - art by Ian Gibson, script by Anne Caulfield, published by Boom studios in 2012 

Contains 'Deadly rainbow - part 2'

The Grand Comics Database has variant covers for some of these Boom comics - for instance here - but I've not included them here.

There was then a collected edition which looks like this...

These are actually reprints of this series from Acme Press / Eclipse books in 1990-2

Steed and Mrs Peel comic 1 (of 3) - art by Ian Gibson, script by Grant Morrison, published by Acme Press / Eclipse books in 1990

Contains 'The Golden game - part 1 & 2'

Steed and Mrs Peel comic 2 (of 3) - art by Ian Gibson, script by Grant Morrison & Anne Caulfield, published by Acme Press / Eclipse books in 1991

Contains 'The Golden game - part 3' & 'Deadly rainbow - part 1'

Steed and Mrs Peel comic 3 (of 3) - art by Ian Gibson, script by Grant Morrison & Anne Caulfield, published by Acme Press / Eclipse books in 1992

Contains 'The Golden game - part 4' & 'Deadly rainbow - part 2'

 

2000AD trading cards - series 1 (2007) - part 12

From 2007 here's my look at Strictly Ink's 2000AD trading cards. I've collected the basic collector cards (#1-72) but there were also Gold Foil, Costume & Bonus Cards. 

As it points out on the packaging the odds of finding hand drawn sketch cards or bonus cards are 1:20 packs (so 1-2 per box). Foil cards were 1:12 packs and each box contained (on average) one hand drawn sketch or bonus card.

Cards 1-9 were here

Cards 10-18 were here

Cards 19-27 (part 1) is here

Cards 19-27 (part 2) is here

Cards 28-36 is here

Cards 37-45 (part 1) is here

Cards 37-45 (part 2) is here

Cards 46-54 is here

Cards 55-63 is here

Cards 64-72 (part 1) is here

Cards 64-72 (part 2) is here

In the final look at these cards I've collected up the images relating to a particular character or artist - first up Ian Gibson...

The back of card #23

The front and back of card #39

The front and back of card #42...

2000AD trading cards - series 1 (2007) - part 7

From 2007 here's my look at Strictly Ink's 2000AD trading cards. I've collected the basic collector cards (#1-72) but there were also Gold Foil, Costume & Bonus Cards.

As it points out on the packaging the odds of finding hand drawn sketch cards or bonus cards are 1:20 packs (so 1-2 per box). Foil cards were 1:12 packs and each box contained (on average) one hand drawn sketch or bonus card.

Cards 1-9 were here

Cards 10-18 were here

Cards 19-27 (part 1) is here

Cards 19-27 (part 2) is here

Cards 28-36 is here

Cards 37-45 (part 1) is here

Cards 37-45 (part 2) is below...