Brendan McCarthy Bibliography

[Dunk!]

Beeautiful indeed.

God I love this man's art, but get to see so little of it nowadays.

Roll on the book and the subsequent knighthood. :)

[Byron Virgo]

Sir Brendan has such a nice ring to it, doesn't it?

[Phuz]

I?d settle for a statue in Trafalgar Square, next to the one of John Peel.

Cheers
-JohnK

[ming]

Fantastic stuff.  McCarthy's just the business, eh?  Strange Days is still one of my all-time favourites, and if Rufus wants to post some more bits and pieces, I for one, won't complain!

Anyone have those old issues of Vanguard where Freakwave started off?

Keep up the good work on the site, John.

[Phuz]

I've got the Freakwave issues of Vanguard, I bought mine years ago but you can get them on EBay 'cheap as chips' - the only thing I'm really after are episodes of 'Summer of Love'

And here's a preview of some of the artwork going up on the site soon:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v490/the-phuz/mrx.jpg">

Cheers
JohnK.

[ming]

Ah, I have the Vanguards - I was just misty-eyed reminiscing!  I think I have two of the different versions of that Mr. X cover somewhere...  And now I think about it, my brother lent my copy of Skin to a mate and it was never seen again - gah, bah, funk.

What was the Summer of Love thing?

[Byron Virgo]

Skin's still pretty easy to track dow, considering the publisher went bust and left loads of them unsold. Most comic shops usually have a few copies, and you can definitely find it on both ebay and Amazon's .com and .co.uk.

I just went and bought myself a copy of ROgan Gosh, to replace my old issues of Revolver that I sold earlier in the year, after being inspired by this thread and John's site (like to drop in there from time to time for a quick dose of mondo weirdness). I think I've got some old copies of Strangedays, signed by Milligan, Ewins and McCarthy at home somewhere...

[Phuz]

Summer of love was a newspaper comic strip Peter Milligan and Brendan McCarthy did for the News on Sunday - it's Milligan/McCarthy's great 'lost' work, as the end was never published and then the original artwork vanished. From the few episodes I've got it's truly stunning, so one of the aims of the site is to try and collect the whole of Summer of Love.

You can read more about it here:
http://www.2000ad.nu/brendanmccarthy/comicwork/summer-of-love.htm">Summer of Love

And here's an episode:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v490/the-phuz/SummerLove.jpg">

[Phuz]

Try that link again ---

Link: http://www.2000ad.nu/brendan-mccarthy/comicwork/summer-of-love.htm" target="_blank">summer of love

[maryanddavid]

i have a vague memorie of an album cover my mccarthy, for the specials or somesuch ska band, may even have it, will have a root when i get a chance
david

[Phuz]

I've got some McCarthy Specials (and Johny Rotten) artwork somewhere but I can't find it at the moment.

Here's a hi-res version of the Summer of Love episode above, if people want to read it---

Link: http://uk.geocities.com/judgephuz/SummerOfLove.jpg" target="_blank">Summer of Love [hi-res]

[Phuz]

They?re always in the last place you look?

Some artwork for a series of greetings cards published by ?The Rock Art Shop Ltd? around 1979.

Specials:

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Mr Lydon:

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