Strip Magazine - New UK High Street Title

[Jim_Campbell]

agreement has been reached and fans of action will be sure to want to sink their teeth into it... 

It's a serialization of that Manga Twilight graphic novel, isn't it?

:-P

Cheers!

Jim

[flip-r mk2]

Could it be HookJaw.



filip

[Professor Bear]

I suspect it could - hopefully the original pages and not the edited and butchered versions from later printings.

[flip-r mk2]

The word butchered has just reawkened memories of reading Action and in particular Hookjaw in Sandy's the barbers when i was a little nipper ,now there was a butcher when it comes to haircuts.



filip

[Jim_Campbell]

I'd like to see those pages re-lettered -- the 70s-era typeset lettering never sat right on those pages with me.



It always surprises me to see those pages and get reminded that they're typeset. In my imagination, they're all lettered by Jack Potter, who was no respecter of the baseline grid but whose florid penmanship graced many classic 2000AD moments.



Make me the happiest letterer alive, Mr Freeman -- let me re-letter Hookjaw!

Cheers

Jim

(Although, if I could persuade someone to burn every copy of that Twilight Manga thing, which is actually the worst lettered comic in the history of everything, ever...)

[Emperor]

(Although, if I could persuade someone to burn every copy of that Twilight Manga thing, which is actually the worst lettered comic in the history of everything, ever...)

Ah yes, but if John was reprinting that you could have the "pleasure" of relettering it

[M.I.K.]

This is getting more and more interesting sounding.

[Ignatzmonster]

Looks pretty good! I'll have to find a way to get one in my neck of the woods.

I wish the endeavour the best. From an outsider's perspective, the problem with UK comics was never the talent, but always finding an audience large enough that the talent could get reasonably paid. The only reason American comic artists can make a living is the country is big enough that the small percentage of comic readers add up. But the English speaking comic readers' numbers are growing on both sides of the Atlantic so...

[TordelBack]

Ah hey, that really is mouth-watering.

[Zarjazzer]

Thanks for the kind words and vote of confidence, folks. And especially to PJ Holden, Jim Campbell and Gary Caldwell for their work on this project so far.

John Ridgway's strip is a colour (and in some parts, re-drawn) serialization of Age of Heroes, written by James Hudnall, which was first published in the 1990s. John has been doing a huge amount of colouring work as well as the occasional Commando book of late, and if you want to see some of it, check out his Garth pages on the Dan Dare magazine Spaceship Away.

There will be an announcement next week about the inclusion of a classic British comic strip from the 1970s in Strip Magazine UK. There was some toing and froing on this and I can't actually say which strip it is but you're the first to know that agreement has been reached and fans of action will be sure to want to sink their teeth into it...  

Age of Heroes!? I'm so a buying this! I absolutely loved that comic but it seemed to come out only in dribs and drabs.

[Emperor]

Watching you, watching us, watching you:

www.bleedingcool.com/2010/07/03/will-strip-magazine-bring-back-hook-jaw/

[Jim_Campbell]

Just a bit of fun, but...

It was a relatively small amount of work (surprisingly so, TBH) to remove the original lettering from this page, shamelessly thieved from Sevenpenny Nightmare:



And, from there, quite a lot of fun to add back the lettering in old-school stylee:



Cheers!

Jim

[Richmond Clements]

There was some toing and froing on this and I can't actually say which strip it is but you're the first to know that agreement has been reached and fans of action will be sure to want to sink their teeth into it...   

I know we're just jawing here, John- but where's the hook?

[Jim_Campbell]

I know we're just jawing here, John- but where's the hook?

Oooh! (S)hark at him!

I'll get me coat.

Jim

[TordelBack]

I never get tired of that severed shin flying towards me.  Nice job, Jim!