Messages

Hi Grant, thanks for the tips and links. I'm using Windows Live photogallery and Paint at the minute. Both fine for GCD purposes as they like 'em big, but unwieldy for anything else.

Gordon.

Here's a couple of Youtube links to songs which either mention, or are about, comic strip characters. Got any more? Post them here.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKdWvau_1p8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujiNiBGEZ2Q (Homer and Crusty)

Your best bet might be to track down someone who was in editorial at the time as I'd imagine (if the first issue is anything to go by) they probably hammered out these early annuals with a small group of creators. If you do go to this trouble when not stop by 2000 AD Review and see if they'd be interested in an overview of the search.

The artists can probably be identified through comparison to other work (I'm sure I spotted one or two when looking through them) and a few scans might help.

Sorry about the delayed response - I've had trouble logging-in.

By "2000AD review" do you means the topic here on the forum? Thought that was just for people to talk about the latest issue?

I'll add some scans when I figure out how to do it without destroying the bandwidth. I've basically only got what editing tools that came with windows. Even just isolating one frame results in a file size of at least 1mb. Tips and hints appreciated.

Look forward to hearing from you. I shall try the Comics UK forum as well, most likely. btw I read somewhere that Steve Holland has compiled a checklist for Lion and, possibly, Warlord. Does anyone know if this is true and where one might track such indices down?

Cheers,
Gordon.

Gordon here, shamelessly come to raid the Hive Mind of its amassed knowledge of British comics from the last fifty years. Having said that, the forum seems to be struggling to cope both with user-name and pw. Anybody else having log in problems?

If I can get on top of that, expect to see more of me.

If someone can talk me through uploading scans that don't destroy the forum's bandwidth, 'twould be appreciated as well.

BCNU.

Hi all. Back again.

First, any ideas on who wrote and drew the Invasion story? The name Beeton appears surreptitiously in a panel on page 94, in a place where it has no obvious reason to be. Was there an artist called Beeton working at the time? Anyone know anymore about him/her?

Who edited the annual? Would there have been a separate reprint editor on the Guinea Pig and Phantom Patrol stories? As we're on the subject of editors, who would have edited the 1978 annual?

Finally, who was responsible for the "unpublished" Harlem's Heroes story at the back of the book?

Hope to have this index finished this week. No worries if it takes the Hive Mind a while to come up with the answers though, as the GCD errors list allows us to update the indexes any time.

Cheers,

Gordon.

btw. next time I'll have more ???s on Warlord and Lion, among others.

Hi, I'm the guy who asked the original question. Between here and the Comics U.K. forum the concensus of opinion seems to be it was drawn by Gerry Embleton, written by Willie Patterson, and first appeared in Swift before it merged with Eagle, circa 1962.

I'll go with that in the GCD index, with everything question-marked just in case.

I'll have plenty more questions about the early 2000AD annuals, as well as UK comics in general, so I look forward to your help.

Are we allowed to post samples of art here, to help with artist identification?

Many thanks to everyone who chipped in above. BCNU.

Gordon.