Hi and welcome to my blog about comics from other people’s childhood! It is dedicated primarily to British humour comics of the 60s and 70s. The reason they are not from my childhood is simply because I didn’t live in the UK back then (nor do I live there now). I knew next to nothing about them until fairly recently but since then I’ve developed a strong liking for the medium and amassed a large collection, including a number of complete or near complete sets. My intention is to use this blog as a channel for sharing my humble knowledge about different titles, favourite characters and creators as I slowly research my collection.
QUICK TIP: this blog is a sequence of posts covering one particular comic at a time. The sequence follows a certain logic, so for maximum results it is recommended that the blog is read from the oldest post up.
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Tuesday, November 5, 2013
BONFIRE NIGHT!!
Let's have some firework fun with Ken Reid's Ali Ha-Ha and the 40 Thieves
from the Dandy of the early 60s.
The man was a genius. I believe the last one is also by him. Ken's style suffered somewhat after the nervous breakdown that he had in the early 60s. There's a possibility that someone helped him with inking on that 1962 Fireworks episode.
The idea of putting together a paper index of COR!!, Shiver and Shake and maybe some other IPC humour titles has indeed crossed my mind a couple of times but I seriously doubt there'd be enough buyers to make this a viable "project". As for a book on Ken, who knows, maybe one day...
Top stuff, Irmantas - he really was one of the greats. Would kids find his style dated today? I doubt it.
ReplyDeleteInspired madness and always a pleasure...thanks for posting. He was always at his best drawing things blowing up!
ReplyDeletebtw - are you sure that last one is Ken? Could be deadline pressures, but, to my eye, it's not quiet as well drawn as the other two.
The man was a genius. I believe the last one is also by him. Ken's style suffered somewhat after the nervous breakdown that he had in the early 60s. There's a possibility that someone helped him with inking on that 1962 Fireworks episode.
DeleteWas there a fireworks theme every year with Ali...
ReplyDeleteanyway its great to see these...
Looking forward to your book you might do one day based on your blog...I think you could do a book on Ken Reid also one day..
The idea of putting together a paper index of COR!!, Shiver and Shake and maybe some other IPC humour titles has indeed crossed my mind a couple of times but I seriously doubt there'd be enough buyers to make this a viable "project". As for a book on Ken, who knows, maybe one day...
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