CROWDFUNDING NEWS UPDATE – 75 PER CENT AND COUNTING!

The crowdfunding campaign to raise funds to print the official complete collection of Ken Reid’s Odhams work has been well received by fans. It is already more than 75 per cent backed – and there’s still a month to go! 

Thanks to all who contributed so far, and here’s the link for those who would like to join the fun: THE POWER PACK OF KEN REID

To celebrate this achievement, here are some shots of Ken’s original Frankie Stein artwork – the top half of the page, followed by individual panels of the same. I will save the bottom half for later.

The image was kindly supplied by Julius Howe who owns the page and is one of the backers of the campaign, so special thank you to you, Julius!

NB: Please, note that this is not the original artwork that will come with the books!

THE POWER PACK OF KEN REID NOW AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER ON CROWDFUNDING PLATFORM!

Further to my previous blogpost, I am proud and delighted to announce that the crowdfunding campaign to support the complete collection of the works of Ken Reid in WHAM!, SMASH! and POW! comics is now live and open to all! 

If you read my previous post, you must have seen the covers, and here are a few spreads showing what’s inside. Please, click to enlarge!

Please, follow the link below to go straight to the campaign and support it, if you decide to :) THE POWER PACK OF KEN REID

SOME VERY EXCITING NEWS FOR FANS OF KEN REID!

I said I was going to break the news a while ago, but things tend to take longer than one plans… At long last, here they are: 

I AM ABOUT TO PUBLISH THE OFFICIAL COLLECTION OF KEN REID’S COMPLETE ODHAMS WORK!

More details will be revealed soon…

HAROLD HARE’S OWN PAPER, April 1961

HAROLD HARE’S OWN PAPER was another nice nursery comic of the 60’s by Fleetway, and here is a random issue published at about this time nearly 60 years ago.

The cover is by Hugh McNeill, as was some of the artwork inside. I have credited the artists where I could recognise their styles. The comic was larger in size than companion PLAYHOUR and JACK AND JILL at the time, so I couldn’t scan complete pages, but the "clippings" below will give you a taste. If I were a British kid when these comics were around, I would have probably preferred PLAYHOUR but HHOP also had some nice art and stories to offer.

Here’s another strip by Hugh McNeill:

Moony was a weird creature from the Moon who could transform himself into any shape and form:

The centre pages had Here Comes Mr. Toad by Peter Woolcock:

The Adventures of Pinocchio was illustrated by Tom Kerr (I believe):

The back cover featured The Stories of Katie Country Mouse by Mendoza. His work here seems to be less inspired than that of Gulliver in PLAYHOUR which Mendoza had stopped drawing by then: