John Cooper original art

hippynumber1 · 28 October, 2012, 02:10:30 PM

Hello chaps!

I'm currently giving a friend of John Cooper's a hand selling and marketing some of John's work. So, two question: 1 - does anyone recognise the work in photos 1 and 2?
and 2 - does anyone know if John sent these Armitage pages as they appear in pic 3 and someone scanned and greyscaled them?

Cheers for any help...

TordelBack · 28 October, 2012, 02:30:23 PM

Those Armitage pics are fascinating! I'd always suspected that the panels were drawn at one size and then scanned, shaded and composed into a page. I'd always assumed that John himself did this himself.

hippynumber1 · 28 October, 2012, 02:39:05 PM

Apparently not - unfortunately John's quite ill at the moment so his friend is avoiding 'troubling' him with this kind of stuff...

Fatboydale · 28 October, 2012, 02:41:52 PM

I personally know John , and he has worked with small panels for some time .... easy to change if there is a mistake , he would have done all the work himself ....also he draws on small panels because he cannot find decent Osram board to draw on ...

Fatboydale · 28 October, 2012, 02:43:27 PM

Quote from: hippynumber1 on 28 October, 2012, 02:39:05 PM
Apparently not - unfortunately John's quite ill at the moment so his friend is avoiding 'troubling' him with this kind of stuff...

oh shit .... not spoke to him for a while ..

hippynumber1 · 28 October, 2012, 02:50:35 PM

Excellent Dale, thank you! Now, just need to identify those other pictures...

maryanddavid · 28 October, 2012, 03:48:40 PM

John uses photoshop and has done for a long while, so these would be scanned and greyscaled by John.
John also did a lot of book illustrations for the likes of Hardy Boys and Enid Blyton in the early eighties the first pictures are probably from that body of work.

hippynumber1 · 28 October, 2012, 03:53:02 PM

Thanks Maryanddavid - I don't think they're Famous Five pages (we've identified most of those) but if he did Secret Seven etc also I suppose that's possible. The Hardy Boys is a good lead too, any idea on the publisher for those?

maryanddavid · 28 October, 2012, 04:11:04 PM

Possibly Brown Watson, but I'm not sure of that.

hippynumber1 · 28 October, 2012, 06:00:51 PM

Thanks again! Some of John's pages will be up on e-bay later, I shall provide a link for those interested parties out there...

hippynumber1 · 28 October, 2012, 07:33:14 PM

Armitage pages now up:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/289-JUDGE-DREDD-MEGAZINE-AD2000-SIGNED-JOHN-COOPER-ORIGINAL-ART-/121007452040?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item1c2c9b2f88

Very reasonable! Alan's a good guy...

Spikes · 28 October, 2012, 09:15:03 PM

Nice stuff, and this from the seller's description:
'I WILL BE OFFERING FOR SALE OVER THE COMING MONTHS A VAST COLLECTION OF ORIGINAL ARTWORKS OF ARTIST AND FAMOUS ILLUSTRATOR AND A PERSONAL FRIEND OF MINE....JOHN COOPER'

Will have to keep an eye on this.

hippynumber1 · 28 October, 2012, 09:19:55 PM

Yea, he has BOXES of John's work, not just 2000AD stuff. He's also got Famous Five illustrations, drawings that John did for ITV News in the 70s/80s (courtroom illustration type), Battle and so on... All good stuff!

Colin YNWA · 29 October, 2012, 05:58:20 AM

Quote from: hippynumber1 on 28 October, 2012, 09:19:55 PM
Yea, he has BOXES of John's work, not just 2000AD stuff. He's also got Famous Five illustrations, drawings that John did for ITV News in the 70s/80s (courtroom illustration type), Battle and so on... All good stuff!

Really looking forward to seeing the Battle stuff, thinking maybe a Johnny Red page might be a possibility?

hippynumber1 · 29 October, 2012, 07:19:58 AM

Haven't found any yet but it's a distinct possibility!