At
about this time each year I do a retrospective of Xmas episodes of my favourite
characters in UK comics. I have covered Buster,
Faceache
and Frankie
Stein so far; you are welcome to revisit the posts by clicking on the “Christmas issues” tag in the labels column on
the right.
In
keeping with the fine tradition of this blog, this time I decided on Scream
Inn by the excellent Brian Walker. In an unlikely event if you aren’t familiar with this
brilliant feature, I covered it in detail in my SHIVER AND SHAKE series a
couple of years ago. Click HERE to access the post.
Here is the first festive episode from the only X-mas number of Shiver and Shake weekly (Dec. 29th, 1973, No. 43):
Here is the first festive episode from the only X-mas number of Shiver and Shake weekly (Dec. 29th, 1973, No. 43):
In
1973 Shiver and Shake also
surprised fans with a Christmas Holiday Special. Summer Specials were a norm back
then but a X-mas Holiday Special was something out of the ordinary. It included
this nice 4-pager of Scream Inn:
There was also a 4-page episode in SHIVER AND SHAKE Annual 1974 that came out for the X-mas of 1973:
Part two of X-mas celebrations at Scream Inn will be up
soon…
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I always love this feature....thanks Irmantas
ReplyDeleteI remember Scream Inn very well. The strip had a very distinctive look. I wish Shiver & Shake had lasted longer than it did, but at least I was a (very) small part of it in the form of a Creepy Creation.
ReplyDeleteBlissful!
ReplyDeleteOne great thing about Brian Walker is that he was a masterful macabre artist but his non-macabre work was highly appealing, too. Are you familiar with his Old Boy strip from Whizzer and Chips, Irmantas, which especially looked great when it had a blue tint?
I wish I had that Shiver and Shake Christmas Special.
I am familiar with Walker's Old Boy feature, Raven, although I haven't had the time to look closely at it. I think it started in the summer of 1975 and ended early in 1976. My notes say I have all but one issue of Wh&Ch from that period and I will surely be checking the strip out :)
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