Peter Gray's Comics and Art

 A great book by Denis Grifford 100 years of comics...lots of great comic covers from 1870-1970. Bought in Oxfam this week for £3.99..;0)

I have the annual and had to show you this in full colour..It is brilliant how all the sports merged into one and in different sizes and amazing angles..
The image is leaping off the page!!

These frontpieces of old annuals are great fun..
I've only seen this image in the Comic art of Roy Wilson by Alan Clark in black and white..so heres the nice painted version..

Cheeky goes up to the attic and looks through his Dad's old comics...a neat way to show a reprint in a comic..



Jim Jolly is by Roy Wilson. Thanks klakadak-ploobadoof

The Dicky Duffer strip is by Albert 'Charlie' Pease. thanks Kashgar for the info..

Rudolf was the work of the underrated Arthur Martin, the artist who drew Chalky for Buster many years later. Thanks Kashgar

Heres a song which goes with the Reg Parlett's The Beaver Patrol comic strip in an earlier blog post found by ajsmith
This brought to mind the garage rock standard by The Wilde Knights.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iHDIy9gPG0

http://www.comicsuk.co.uk/Forum/viewtopic.php?f=127&t=3354

Well here is my take on Golden comic..recieved from ebay today...
I like the limited colour of gold yellow it sure suits the name..
Love the Header of the comic title..love the Beano to do this one day...the header takes the shape of the readers meeting the editor Sam Smiles!! Maybe Euan Kerr should of changed his name for The Beano to Euan Merry..The Dandy's previous Editor Morris Heggie to Morris Happy..the thirties comics were certainly a smiley time fro comics..

The cover strip is half good and half wooden to me...it falls between two stools..the handsome character Lt Daring has no expression or fun like Jolly Roger...I think Scooby Doo though good had this problem as well..the adult characters don't have has much personality unlike the cartooney Scooby..If the characters were drawn in a Flintstone style it would work even better.





Reg Perrott
This strip needs more pictures it would work even better as a two pager..


UPDATE artist name Fred Robinson thanks to Lew Stringer for info..

I liked this strip..wished the comic had more cartoon strips like this and the cover..I like the ending of the Monkey driver capturing the animal Bear..







Secretly Smugglers Castle by Arthur Mansbridge




Both good stories.

Love the well drawn Windmill in Little Brother some great shading.

Secretly Smugglers Castle is also good..though not so much expression..the mystrious Monk at the end is a nice cliffhanger..

The rest of the comic are text stories which are not for me..kids sure liked to read then..

Would I buy another Golden comic..the answer is no...it needed more humour pages...Getting Tip-Top soon hopefully with more humour pages..

See Lews take on Golden comic here..Great minds think alike :))
http://lewstringer.blogspot.com/2009/12/vintage-colour-comics-golden-no125-1940.html

If i got any artists wrong let me know..
Thanks to Lew for giving me the artists names from his blog post..

http://www.comicsuk.co.uk/Gallery/NormalDisplayWhole.htm
The Header of Golden comic changes at Christmas..shame the header doesn't change every week like other comics with Roy Wilson art on co0ver..

We are due another Golden age..lets hope the Tennies will be that:)
Happy New Year..amazing I've had nearly 40000 views from May 2009 that is great news..shows how comics are still important to people even today..
Also the blog is nearly two years old..nearly run out of space!!
..so will have to move blog post topics to another blog I have...probably the Buster front covers..Jackpot..Krazy I'll move to make some space..will keep yuo posted..heres to 2010..

Thanks Phil. Film Fun's 'Quips' page in 1961.
http://www.comicsuk.co.uk/Forum/viewtopic.php?f=127&t=2479&p=19298#p19298

1938.
An example from The comic art of Roy Wilson by Alan Clark book...love the header with the octopus pulling many crackers! It is a very happy book. Roy drew the best happy faces.


Buster 1967 reprint from Film Fun. Just love the octopus..a character well known in the stories of Pitch and Toss from Funny Wonder.



The comic art of Roy Wilson by Alan Clark and David Ashford is well worth seeking out...just bought it myself!

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Comic-Art-Wilson-Alan-Clark/dp/0859362833
We all love the cartoon comic animals of Pogo, Disney, Reg Parlett and Robert Nixon. Roy was there first!

http://lambiek.net/artists/w/wilson_roy.htm

http://bearalley.blogspot.com/2008/02/funny-wonder-annual.html
From Bear Alley see more great covers by Roy..


http://lewstringer.blogspot.com/search?q=roy+wilson

Roy was great at filling the panels with onlooking animals enjoying the fun.
(Roy Wilson 1900-1965)