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  • STEVE BELL (b. 26 February 1951) is one of Britain’s sharpest political cartoonists. His best known work are the satirical comics [...]

    Bell, Steve

    July 13, 2018
  • SIDNEY WILLIAM BURGON learned the elements of sketching from his mother. Burgon became a mechanic, while continuing to draw. It were his [...]

    Burgon, Sidney William

    July 13, 2018
  • SCOTT GOODALL was born in Aberdeen in 1935. After returning from the far east where he was sent after being called up for National Service, [...]

    Goodall, Scott

    July 13, 2018
  • ROY MITCHELL was a prolific cartoonist and comic strip artist since the 1970s. He contributed his work to the Express Newspapers, Mirror Group, [...]

    Mitchell, Roy

    July 12, 2018
  • RON TURNER’s artwork emerged in the independent comic books of 1949. His first color work, like ‘Giants of the Second World’ [...]

    Turner, Ron

    July 12, 2018
  • ROBERT NIXON: Long associated with the Beano, the British children’s comics illustrator and cartoonist Robert Nixon has died, aged 63. [...]

    Nixon, Robert

    July 12, 2018
  • REGINALD EDWARD PARLETT (2 August 1904 – 18 November 1991) was an artist from England who had a career of drawing for comic books that lasted [...]

    Parlett, Reginald Edward

    July 12, 2018
  • PHIL GASCOINE (8 June 1934 – August 2007) was a British comics artist, best known for his work in comics such as Jinty, Bunty, and Battle [...]

    Gascoine, Phil

    July 12, 2018
  • PETER SUTHERLAND (11 August 1921 – 1977) was born in the Leicestershire village of Somerby. After serving in the REME during World War II, [...]

    Sutherland, Peter

    July 12, 2018
  • NIGEL PARKINSON is a regular artist for the D.C. Thomson magazines The Beano and The Dandy, as well as the companion title BeanoMAX. During the [...]

    Parkinson, Nigel

    July 12, 2018
  • MIKE WHITE was a British comic artist known principally for his work on various IPC/Fleetway and DC Thomson titles. Mike White began submitting [...]

    White, Mike

    July 12, 2018
  • Widely regarded as one of the best artists to ever grace the British comic industry, MIKE WESTERN, began his career on Knockout, having already [...]

    Western, Mike

    July 11, 2018
  • MIKE LACEY is a productive artist whose work has appeared in nearly all Fleetway/IPC funnies since the 1970s. For many years, he drew [...]

    Lacey, Mike

    July 11, 2018
  • MIKE HUBBARD (2 April 1902, Ireland – 25 June 1976) was born ERNEST ALFRED HUBBARD in Dublin, Ireland. He came to London after World War I [...]

    Hubbard, Mike

    July 11, 2018
  • MASSIMO BELARDINELLI (5 June 1938 – 31 March 2007) was an Italian comic artist best known for his work in the British science fiction comic [...]

    Belardinelli, Massimo

    July 11, 2018
  • LEW STRINGER (born 22 March 1959 in England) is a freelance comic artist and scriptwriter. Stringer began his career from the late 1970s with a [...]

    Stringer, Lew

    July 11, 2018
  • LEE SULLIVAN trained as a wildlife and technical illustrator at Barnfield College, then spent five years as a graphic artist for British [...]

    Sullivan, Lee

    July 11, 2018
  • Often cited as one of Britain’s greatest comic book illustrators, KEN REID was born in Manchester in 1919. An avis artist from an early age, [...]

    Reid, Ken

    July 11, 2018
  • JOSEPH LEO BAXENDALE (27 October 1930 – 23 April 2017) was an English cartoonist and publisher. Baxendale wrote and drew several titles. Among [...]

    Baxendale, Joseph Leo

    July 11, 2018
  • Discovering his love of comics through reading The Eagle, JOHN STOKES would later join his brother George at IPC, where he worked on several [...]

    Stokes, John

    July 10, 2018
  • John K. Geering (9 March 1941 – 13 August 1999) JOHN KEITH GEERING was one of the notable artists for British children’s comic [...]

    Geering, John Keith

    July 10, 2018
  • JOHN EDWARD OLIVER (19 June 1942 – 26 May 2007) was a British cartoonist. He is more usually known as J. Edward Oliver or JEO, and to his [...]

    Oliver, John Edward

    July 10, 2018
  • JIM PETRIE was born in Dundee, Scotland, and worked for DC Thomson and its magazine The Beano for forty years. He was an art teacher at [...]

    Petrie, Jim

    July 10, 2018
  • JAMES “JIM” CROCKER is a prolific artist whose work has appeared in many IPC funnies since the 1970s. He created among others the two [...]

    Crocker, Jim

    July 10, 2018
  • I’m very sorry to hear of the passing of the artist JAMES HANSEN (often known as Jimmy Hansen) who died on Tuesday 19th June 2018. In a [...]

    Hansen, James

    July 10, 2018
  • Jack Clayton drew for Cheeky, Jackpot and Buster comic. He did the wonderful joke page Hit the Jackpot! Where so much detail was put in the [...]

    Clayton, Jack

    July 10, 2018
  • IAN KNOX (born 4 May 1943, Belfast, Northern Ireland) is a political cartoonist for the Irish News, and also drew cartoons for the BBC Northern [...]

    Knox, Ian

    July 9, 2018
  • The artist GIORGIO GIORGETTI (1920-1982) who was the creator/artist of Catgirl and left some of his original Catgirl work..given to his son [...]

    Giorgetti, Giorgio

    July 9, 2018
  • Scottish artist FRANK QUITELY is best known for his work on such series as ‘JLA: Earth’ and ‘Authority’. He began his [...]

    Quitely, Frank

    July 9, 2018
  • FRANK MINNITT (3 September 1894 – 12 May 1958) was a comic artist for the publications of D.C. Thomson and Amalgamated Press, and is best [...]

    Minnitt, Frank

    July 9, 2018
  • FRANK McDIARMID was a British, originally from Glasgow, comics artist best known for his work on Roger the Dodger in the Beano and on IPC humour [...]

    McDiarmid, Frank

    July 9, 2018
  • FRANCISCO S0LANO LOPEZ (26th October 1928-12th August 2011) was a comics artist from Buenos Aires, Argentina, who entered the field in 1953 with [...]

    Solano Lopez, Francisco

    July 9, 2018
  • The great ERIC BRADBURY began his comic career at Knockout, working on such humour strips as Blossom and Our Ernie. He moved onto the adventure [...]

    Bradbury, Eric

    July 9, 2018
  • DUDLEY DEXTER WATKINS (27 February 1907 – 20 August 1969) was an English cartoonist and illustrator. He is best known for his characters Oor [...]

    Dexter Watkins, Dudley

    July 9, 2018
  • DICK MILLINGTON is best known for his Fleetway comics in the 1960s and 1970s and for the comic strip ‘Mighty Moth’ in TV Comic. He [...]

    Millington, Dick

    July 8, 2018
  • DENIS GIFFORD (26 December 1927 – 18 May 2000) was a British writer, broadcaster, journalist, comic artist and historian of film, comics, [...]

    Gifford, Denis

    July 8, 2018
  • DAVID SUTHERLAND is a prolific and longtime contributor for DC Thomson’s children’s comic The Beano. Among his early features were [...]

    Sutherland, David

    July 8, 2018
  • DAVID LAW worked for Scottish editor D.C.Thomson since about 1945, drawing cartoons for local papers. One of these was a young version of [...]

    Law, David

    July 8, 2018
  • In addition to several years as a regular cartoonist for the staggeringly sophisticated British magazines Zit Comic and Spit, CAT SULLIVAN has [...]

    Sullivan, Cat

    July 8, 2018
  • At the age of sixteen, BRIAN WALKER applied for an art job at the Bristol Evening World. He drew war maps and gag cartoons. After service in the [...]

    Walker, Brian

    July 8, 2018
  • Cor!! was a children’s humour weekly launched by IPC (International Publishing Corporation), on 6 June 1970, their sixth new comic in just [...]

    Paynter, Bob

    July 8, 2018
  • BILL LACEY was with the RAF during World War II, and after the War he became a technical artist at the Ministry of Aircraft. He did his first [...]

    Lacey, Bill

    July 8, 2018
  • BARRY APPLEBY (30 August 1909 – 11 March 1996) was a British cartoonist famous for creating The Gambols for the Daily Express. The strip [...]

    Appleby, Barry

    July 7, 2018
  • BARRIE MITCHELL is an artist of UK action, sports and adventure comics. He drew for romance titles like Bunty, Mandy and Diana, as well as action [...]

    Mitchell, Barrie

    July 7, 2018
  • Suffolk-based artist BARRIE APPLEBY has been working for British comic books the 1970s. Coming from Barnsley, Yorkshire, he began his career at [...]

    Appleby, Barrie

    July 7, 2018
  • ALLAN MORLEY (Scarborough, North Yorkshire, Great Britain, 29 April 1895 – Thanet, Kent 5 September 1960) was a British comic artist. He [...]

    Morley, Alan

    July 7, 2018
  • ALAN McKENZIE is a British comics writer and editor known for his work at 2000 AD. McKenzie worked for Marvel UK during the early 1980s, editing [...]

    McKenzie, Alan

    July 7, 2018
  • ALAN FENNELL (10 December 1936 – 10 December 2001 was a British writer and editor best known for work on series produced by Gerry Anderson, and [...]

    Fennell, Alan

    July 7, 2018
  • ALAN DAVIS (born 18 June) is an English writer and artist of comic books, known for his work on titles such as Captain Britain, The Uncanny [...]

    Davis, Allan

    July 7, 2018
  • AL EWING (born 12 August 1977) is a British comics writer who has mainly worked in the small press and for 2000 AD and Marvel Comics. Al Ewing [...]

    Ewing, Al

    July 7, 2018
  • The World Of Horror Magazine was launched in 1974 by the Dalruth Publishing Group / Gresham Publishing. ‘An Anthology of the Macabre from [...]

    World Of Horror

    May 26, 2018
  • Publisher: IPC Publication Dates: 1974 – 1975 Number of Issues Published: 87 (#1 – #87) Publishing Format: Was ongoing Information [...]

    Speed and Power

    May 26, 2018
  • Publisher: Alan Class Publication Dates: 1960 – ? Number of Issues Published: 10 (#1 – #10) Color: Colour Front Cover; Black & White [...]

    Tales of the Underworld

    May 5, 2018
  • Publisher: Quality periodicals Publication Dates: December 1986 – March 1987 Number of Issues Published: 4 (#1 – #4) Color: color [...]

    Steel Claw

    May 5, 2018
  • Publication Dates: 26 March 1988 – september 1992 Number of Issues Published: 193 (#1 – #193) Color: Four Colour Dimensions: 8.25 x 11 Paper [...]

    Real Ghostbusters

    May 5, 2018
  • Publisher: Egmont UK Publication Dates: 1987 – 1987 Number of Issues Published: 10 (#1 – #10) Color: Colour Dimensions: 21 cm x 29.5 [...]

    Centurions

    May 5, 2018
  • 1970 series Publisher: IPC Publication Dates: 1970 – 1971 Number of Issues Published: 45 (#7 February 1970 – #13 March 1971) Color: [...]

    Lion 70’s

    April 17, 2018
  • Publisher: IPC Publication Dates: 1954 – 1987 Number of Issues Published: 1555 (#1 – #1555) Color: Colour Dimensions: Magazine-size [...]

    Tiger Various

    April 13, 2018
  • Publisher: IPC Publication Dates: 1954 – 1987 Number of Issues Published: 1555 (#1 – #1555) Color: Colour Dimensions: Magazine-size [...]

    Tiger 80s

    April 13, 2018
  • Publisher: IPC Publication Dates: 1954 – 1987 Number of Issues Published: 1555 (#1 – #1555) Color: Colour Dimensions: Magazine-size [...]

    Tiger 70s

    April 12, 2018
  • Publisher: IPC Publication Dates: 1954 – 1987 Number of Issues Published: 1555 (#1 – #1555) Color: Colour Dimensions: Magazine-size [...]

    Tiger 60s

    April 11, 2018
  • Publisher: IPC Publication Dates: 1954 – 1987 Number of Issues Published: 1555 (#1 – #1555) Color: Colour Dimensions: Magazine-size [...]

    Tiger 50’s

    April 9, 2018
  • Publisher: Esso Publication Dates: 1968 – 1969 Number of Issues Published: 52 (#1 – #52) Color: Colour cover; colour and black and [...]

    Wonder Weekly

    April 5, 2018
  • Publisher: Fleetway Publications Publication Dates: 29th May 1993 – 2002 Number of Issues Published: 184 (#1 – #184) Color: Colour [...]

    Sonic the Comic

    April 5, 2018
  • Publisher: Polystyle Publications Publication Dates: 1966 – 1975 Number of Issues Published: 459 (#1 – #459) Color: Colour Publishing [...]

    Pippin

    April 5, 2018
  • Publisher: World Distributors Publication Dates: 1975 – 1979 Number of Issues Published: 5 (#1975 – #1979) Color: colour Dimensions: [...]

    Space 1999

    March 15, 2018
  • Rampage Weekly Publisher: Marvel UK Publication Dates: 1977 – June 7, 1978 Number of Issues Published: 34 (#1 – #34) Color: Colour [...]

    Rampage

    March 15, 2018
  • Publisher: Marvel UK Publication Dates: 1983 – 1983 Number of Issues Published: 17 (#1 – #17) Color: Colour Dimensions: Tabloid Binding: [...]

    X-Men

    March 15, 2018
  • Publisher: Marvel UK Publication Dates: January 24, 1979 – July 25, 1979 Number of Issues Published: 23 (#330 – #352) Color: Colour cover; [...]

    Marvel Comic

    March 15, 2018
  • Publisher: Alan Class Publication Dates: August 1962 – [circa 1976 – 1977] Number of Issues Published: 250 (#1 – #S) Color: Colour cover; [...]

    Creepy Worlds

    March 15, 2018
  • Publisher: Marvel UK Publication Dates: June 1981 – February 1981 Number of Issues Published: 9 (#1 – #9) Color: Colour cover; Black and [...]

    Blockbuster

    March 15, 2018
  • BEEB was a weekly, children’s magazine centred on the BBC’s most popular programmes at the time of its publication. It was published [...]

    BEEB

    March 15, 2018
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    Original Artwork

    March 12, 2018
  • Publisher: IPC Publication Dates: 12 June 1971 – 23 June 1973 Number of Issues Published: 107 (#12 June 1971 – #23 June 1973) Color: [...]

    Knockout – IPC

    February 28, 2018
  • Publisher: Amalgamated Press/Fleetway Publication Dates: 4 March 1939 – 16 February 1963 Number of Issues Published: 1243 (#1 – #16 [...]

    Knockout – Amalgamated

    February 28, 2018

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