ARTIST SELF-PORTRAITS (PART 6)

Quite a motley instalment today as I put all the remaining bits and bobs of artist self-portraits in a single blogpost. I’ll start off with another episode of Meet the Artists feature in Buster that I missed. Thanks to Peter Gray for the heads up:

Niblet who is another friend of KAZOOP!! alerted me about this self-portrait of David Mostyn in Whoopee! dated 29th January, 1983:

The other day I was checking my Shiver and Shake collection for something else and came across an episode of Frankie Stein in which Professor Cube had an idea he could get rid of his dreaded son by taking over the duties of the Shiver artist. This makes the tied-up bloke in the panel below Robert Nixon. The Shiver and Shake issue in question is dated 5th January, 1974:

In August 1984 Buster celebrated Reg Parlett’s eightieth birthday with a special story on front and back covers. Reg Parlett appears in the last panel surrounded by a crowd of his characters. I wonder who’s that Comics Historian in the second row of the second page?

I’ll close the series for now with a couple of Ken Reid self-portraits that were shown in the BBC Four series about the history of British comics. The images were used to illustrate the period when Mr. Reid suffered a nervous break-down though over-exhaustion and was unable to draw for many months:

ARTIST SELF-PORTRAITS (PART 5)

Here is the last batch of four artist self-portraits from MEET THE ARTISTS… series that ran in 1991 in Buster weeklies:

ARTIST SELF-PORTRAITS (PART 4)

Here are four more pages of MEET THE ARTISTS... series from 1991 Buster weeklies:

ARTIST SELF-PORTRAITS (PART 3)

In 1990 and 1991 Buster ran a Meet the ArtistS series where the then Buster artists drew themselves and provided some details about their lives and artistic careers. To the best of my knowledge, the series covered a total of twelve artists, here are the first four. Others will follow soon:

ARTIST SELF-PORTRAITS (PART 2)

Scream Inn was a popular strip that originated in 1973 in Shiver and Shake and continued in Whoopee! after the two titles merged in 1974. Readers were invited to send their ideas suggesting who might be tough enough to spend a night in the haunted bedroom of Scream Inn and win a million pounds. The strip was illustrated by Brian Walker and one of the reader ideas was that the artist should have a go at the challenge.  Hence Brian Walker’s self-portrait in Shiver and Shake of 25th August, 1973:

Actually, he appeared throughout the two-pager:

Slightly off-topic again, but some weeks earlier Scream Inn script writer (Cliff Brown) had checked-in at Scream Inn. This was in Shiver and Shake dated 7th July, 1973 (No. 18):

Last but not least for today, here is a self-portrait of Tom Paterson from Whizzer and Chips (thanks for the heads-up, George!). Tom drew himself twice in that issue and one of the drawings was on the front cover!