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excellent work in all respects. Well done, Mr Munkeh!

I met Caroline Munro and got a signed photo because why wouldn't you?
I then got that nice Mr Baker to sign it and even thought I gave him a card with my name on it I don't think he had his glasses with him.
Still Caroline Munro, though.




Anyone know a cult couple called Emma and Eamonn?

I know how you feel about hesitating to cover it for fear of just gushing over it - it's been holding me off from setting a date for doing a Book Club podcast with Eamonn for some time!

FCBD in the pub in may???

Image nicked from Lee on facebook

Cover by Alex Ronald

And have a listen to the latest Comic Scene podcast episode where Pat Mills discusses, among other things, the new Defoe story line and artist.

https://soundcloud.com/comicscene/comic-scene-the-podcast-episode-3

Sold, paid for, and posted for another £32 to the cause*






*8106.26

And one of two grail pages for Tony, the cover to prog 200 by Robin Smith.

I got the chance to chat with Tony Foster, the editor of Comic Scene, which is the best publication about comics on the shelves at the moment.

Listen in at
https://megacitybookclub.blogspot.com/2019/03/88-comic-scene.html

Cover by the six million dollar (and correctly attributed) Steve Austin, colours by Chris Blythe.

First Saturday prog to arrive in a potato starch wrapper? Well done to Tharg and the droids.

Sheridan's post reminds me that I have also been touched by the kindness of fellow fans, too numerous to mention, who have donated items for me to auction for cancer research. You're all lovely people.

It's an interesting subject. When I first started going to conventions I wasn't really thinking about getting stuff signed but soon learned that that was the way to get a few moments of chat with a beloved creator and the opportunity to tell them how much I love their work.

I don't like the idea of flipping books with signatures, and I often wonder if the creators think that might be what I'm doing. At last year's FCBD signing there must have been a guy near me in the queue who had his signed copy up on ebay for £50 while the rest of us were still in the pub with southern contingent.

Sometimes the queuing can be a chore but generally I have a good time chatting to the people next to me, I've met a few people who have since become guests on the podcast, and generally just enjoyed the chatter with creators and fellow fans.

Every year after the Christmas raffle I tell my wife I'm going to scale down the pursuit of signed items to auction or raffle. And every year she reminds me that I always say that!

I've had a couple of nice emails from people who for a variety of reasons cannot attend signings or conventions, and have thanked me for getting signed items up at reasonable prices, and all for a good cause. I've also had some fans ask me if they can borrow the idea to raise money for their own charity and the answer is you don't have to ask, guys, just go for it. But that is just another example of how friendly, polite, and good-natured 2000AD fandom can be.

I think that flipping 2000AD books appeals to a fairly limited market, hopefully I'm not causing inflation in a fairly limited market. I think the examples Tim mentions show that fans generally won't pay exorbitant amounts for flipped books unless the money is going to a good cause.

Took a trip to old London Town and came back with two signed books. First up the Turbo Jones trade, brand new, unread and signed on the inside cover by Barrie Tomlinson and Ian Kennedy at Forbidden Planet. Also includes the Kennedy art print numbered 24/100 and signed by Ian.



And Kingdom the Promised Land traded signed on the front cover by Dan Abnett and Richard Elson at Gosh comics.



Both 99p starts with free second class postage and all 100% for cancer research UK.
Every penny to a great cause so make a bid, or a share on social media.

Here are your links

Turbo Jones
And
Kingdom

And away we go!

Adam Brown

I like that they are sticking with the mycelial menace and making Fungus the Bogeyman.

And here is Damian's frail page by the great Frazer Irving.