2000ad in comics britannia.

[dweezil2]

Doesn't 2000ad feature in tonights BBC4 Comics Britannia, at 10.30pm?

[W. R. Logan]

Comics Britannia

Monday 24 September
10:30pm - 11:30pm
BBC4
3/3 - X-Rated: Anarchy in the UK

Armando Iannucci presents a series which explores the history of British comics. He looks at the new characters and strips which emerged in the 1970s and 80s to appeal to an older, more adult readership of comics, from Judge Dredd and Tank Girl to Viz and Watchmen. At the forefront of this comics uprising was writer Alan Moore, who reads from his works such as V for Vendetta and talks about his latest graphic novel, the controversial Lost Girls.

[dweezil2]

Cheers, thought so! Goody, goody!

[Peter Wolf]

  I cant wait to see it. how long will 2000ad get ? 10 to 15 minutes at a guess but if we are lucky we might more.

    I have never ever been a fan of Tank Girl or any other material by Jamie Hewlett.Likewise Crisis Magazine.

  Alan Moore is interesting and gives good interviews.


  No doubt we will see the overweight ,speccy, skin the colour of a potato McDonald Brothers being interviewed about Viz.Not for too long i hope.


 A five year old could draw the kind of comic art in Viz comic.

[Byron Virgo]

Which five year old, and where can he or she be found?

[Hoagy]

What have you been told about child labour, Virgo?

[Byron Virgo]

That there's not enough of it about these days...?

[Peter Wolf]

  I dont really know.I just said it to have a dig at Viz.Take no notice.I just took offence at Viz comics creators comments about comic book readers a short while ago.

  Tonight is the first time 2000ad has been on television unless i am mistaken.

[Keef Monkey]

Should be good, the first couple of episodes were entertaining enough but this is the episode I've really been waiting for.

[James]

Alan Grant on a Lawmaster! Genius!

Ezquerra aketching Dredd!

The voice of Tharg!

[satchmo]

I'm strangely bored by this episode :(

[Funt Solo]

Carlos is cool.  I got to see him draw his bumpy outlines!  

Have to have a nerd moan - Kevin O'Neill was surrounded by images by Ron Smith.  Tutski.

Love that episode.  Thanks for reminding me about it, as I'd have forgotten otherwise.

[Buttonman]

I quite enjoyed that tribute to the 2000ad letters page. Andrew Collins, whom I perviously disliked as he gave away the ending of 'Apocalypto' in a review, has increased immeasurably in my estimations. I have him in with 'Alien Montage' in prog 25 with address unknown. He also got one in from his base in Somerset in Prog 1435 although that may be someone else.

Did laugh at the Viz guy with his dyed, manicured beard and rimless spex. I wonder what 80's Viz would have made of him? Poncey wanker?

Overall it was patchy with the Viz stuff too focused on the smutty elements and Alan Moore indulged too much as he read out screeds of his work. Strange to have Kev O'Neill sit in a Ron Smith drawn set, his own stuff not good enough? Never!

[philt]

I dunno. A couple of things. I don't think it gave 2000ad is place, prefering to concentrate on Viz, a comic whose influence extends no further than the UK. But it's worse than that. It seems strangely poetic that my interest vanished as soon as they started talking about adult comics as art, exactly coinciding with the appearance of Charles Shaar Murray - the irony shouldn't be lost on anyone who suffered his stuff in the unloved and thankfully now forgotten Revolver. Perhaps someone was subtly making a point. I certainly don't think it's coincidential that the British comic market crashed when the publishers decided to chase this mythical "adult" readership, leaving the youngsters to find something else to fill the gaps the absence of comics left.
The other point, and something I was going to mention after the Radio 4 thing was the absence of John Wagner. It seems inexplicable that a programme which name checked the Dandy creators, didn't mention Wagners contribution.

File under disappointing.

[satchmo]

The bit with Carlos was the highlight, fantastic!

Nothing about how or why the weekly comics all died, which was a real shame. Instead Charles Shaar Murray thinks British comics came of age at the point all of it's creators went off to make American comics. I don't know why they keep digging him up for these things.

Way too much Viz as well.

I did enjoy it but it was a letdown after the last 2 episodes.