Lawless 2025 - the photos, part 8

For anyone (like me!) who thinks it'a a very long time to wait until Lawless 2026 here's some photos of Lawless 2025 to help keep you going until May 2026.

Simon Bisley prints were here

More prints & Bisley paintings were here

Bisley pencil work is here

Original comic art for sale here

Brian Bolland was here

The convention floor was here

Guests were here

and now more guests...

Here's Hunt Emerson

Here's Dave Kendall

Here's Dylan Teague

Here's Ant Williams & Patrick Goddard

Stuart Lloyd Gould had a table with loads of stuff on it

Here's Lyndon Webb's table

Here's John Higgins and (non-guest artist) James Bacon

Lawless 2025 - the photos, part 7

For anyone (like me!) who thinks it'a a very long time to wait until Lawless 2026 here's some photos of Lawless 2025 to help keep you going until May 2026.

Simon Bisley prints were here

More prints & Bisley paintings were here

Bisley pencil work is here

Original comic art for sale here

Brian Bolland was here

The convention floor was here

and now we have some of the guests...

Here's Hunt Emerson

Here's Ant Williams and Patrick Goddard

Here's Ben Willsher

and Hunt again

UPDATED: Nostalgia & Comics

My post the other day about the adverts for Dark they were and golden eyed (here) made me think about comics advertising for other shops...and then boom! this pops up on eBay. 

It's for sale here and is Trevor Goring's original artwork for  Birmingham's Nostalgia & Comics shop. I'd love to see other adverts for the shop.

Update: the last post produced further examples of adverts so I'm just adding them to the post...

Lew Stringer sent me this

this was also c/o Lew

as was this - the first mention of the shop (in Comic Media News)

this was from Mark Warby

Update: friend of the blog Sam Farnworth has provided this image by artist Simon Parkes. Thanks! Plus I've found a Hunt Emerson advert.

this advert is taken from Alter Image #4 (November 1987)

Updated: Nostalgia & Comics

My post the other day about the adverts for Dark they were and golden eyed (here) made me think about comics advertising for other shops...and then boom! this pops up on eBay. 

It's for sale here and is Trevor Goring's original artwork for  Birmingham's Nostalgia & Comics shop. I'd love to see other adverts for the shop.

Update: friend of the blog Sam Farnworth has provided this image by artist Simon Parkes. Thanks! Plus I've found a Hunt Emerson advert.

this advert is taken from Alter Image #4 (November 1987)

Ganjaman presents

Not really my cup of tea but a recent ebay listing gave me a chance to easily grab some cover images. Some high profile contributors and even a Judge Dredd cover for issue #4.

Ganjaman presents #1

contributors include Gilbert Shelton, Alan Grant & Bryan Talbot

Ganjaman presents #2

contributors include Gilbert Shelton, Alan Grant, Bryan Talbot & Hunt Emerson

Ganjaman presents #3

Ganjaman presents #4

Ganjaman presents #5

All about the ink!

Cartoonist Mark Stafford has teased this image about an upcoming exhibition of contemporary cartooning and comics art...

As he says...

So next month this is on at the Bookery Gallerie. All About The Ink will be a cavalcade of inky splendour curated by myself and Rosie of the BG Artists so far include Lucy Sullivan, Sean Azzopardi, Ed Pinsent, Krent Able, and Hunt Emerson with many more to be confirmed. Should be good.

Details of the Bookery Gallerie can be found here

I'll add more details about the exhibition as I get them - so bookmark this page!

Comics festival 2000 - part 2

I've previously looked at the great spin-off 'decks of cards' that Kev Sutherland put together for the comics festivals he ran in the early '00s. So far I've looked at... 

The (2001) hearts suit of cards is here
The (2001) diamonds suit of cards is here
The (2001) clubs suit of cards is here
The (2001) spades suit of cards is here

He then repeated the exercise in 2003... 
Part 1 of the 2003 deck of cards is here
Part 2 of the 2003 deck of cards is here
Part 3 of the 2003 deck of cards is here

And the 2003 London (winter) comics festival here
And then some extra items here
And then the cards from the 2003 London (winter) comics festival here
And then my first look at the 2004 charity deck of trump cards here and part two is here

Comics festival 2004 calendar is here

And now the A2 leaflet /programme for the Comics 2000 festival has been found and the 'deck of cards' theme is present, but just in terms of illustrations provided for the programme. So without further ado let's see who's in here...Part 1 was here and now on with part 2...

Ok, so here we have art (in descending order) by Sean Phillips, Charlie Adlard, Neil Googe (drawing Bazooka Jules), Roger Langridge (centred, Doctors Who) Marc Laming draws 2 people in coats, Methaphrog (yellow person - this is actually Martin Nitram from their first comic series Strange weather lately), Hunt Emerson draws his characters and Terry Wiley draws a King Kong themed image. 

and again from top to bottom...

Shaun Bryan draws Octobriana, Staz Johnson draws Bat-women, Simon Perrins draws a man with a colourful coat, John Higgins draws Razorjack (centre, black & white image), Steve Yeowell draws daffodils, George draws Judge Dredd, Tim Perkins draws a warrior nun, Al Davison draws a man with a pendant and Andrew Livesey draws a superhero all in blue.

Thanks to Simon Miller for allowing me to share this with you all...

Ally Sloper, 1976 Alan Class revival

Two interesting Ally Sloper revival items are up for sale this week from the personal collection of comics publisher Alan Class.

First up is this lost - a publicity poster for the 1976 Ally Sloper comic that Alan Class published and Denis Gifford edited

Next up is this lot - a comics 'jam piece' from the launch party with lots of artists drawing their own versions of Ally Sloper. Artists who contributed include Hunt Emerson, Walter Bell, Alan Vince, Terry Wakefield, Keith J Luck, Tony Glynn, Keith Page, Ann Spano, Pany Clifford, Ewan Masters, Ed McHenry, Denis Gifford & Kevin O'Neill

Just to give you a sense of scale here's a scan from Ally Sloper #2 (October 1976) showing the piece being signed - it's huge!