Joe Colquhoun is best known as illustrator of Charlie’s War and Roy of the Rovers. The artist has received quite a bit of attention on Kazoop!, in particular in the series of articles covering Kid Chameleon – an adventure story presented in full colour in COR!! comic. You can refresh your memory of this beautiful strip by clicking here.
Joe
Colquhoun is also one of my favourite British humour artists in comics. His weekly episodes of The Goodies that appeared in COR!! weeklies throughout 1973 are a treat to the eye; I covered the strip in a dedicated post in my COR!! series a few years ago, you can revisit the article by clicking here. A few more humorous
one-offs can be found by typing the name of Joe
Colquhoun in the search box of this blog.
Today’s
post is dedicated to Cap’n Codsmouth
– yet another comedy strip from the hand of the master. It belongs to the
category of nautical humour featuring an inept skipper and his clueless crew.
Few people remember the feature, probably because it only enjoyed a brief
5-month run in the short-lived JAG
comic in 1968/1969, and only the first of the two serialised stories was illustrated
by Mr. Colquhoun (The Calcutta Voyage,
May 4th – July 20th, 1968). Here is the opening episode of the story from the
first issue of the tabloid-size comic:
Mr.
Colquhoun’s Cap’n Codsmouth made a comeback in the early seventies and
featured in JAG Annuals 1971 – 1973 (probably also in JAG Football Special 1968
but I don’t have a copy to check). Curiously, the Annuals contain an impressive
amount of Joe Colquhoun’s art – both original strips and reprints, so I
strongly recommend them for JC’s fans. Below is the complete story from JAG
Annual 1971. I plan to show the other two in my later posts. Enjoy!
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Looks terrific, Irmy, but I couldn't help wondering what Ken Reid would've done with it. It seems right up his street.
ReplyDeleteWe can speculate but Joe surely did a brilliant job drawing it!
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