Beautiful Balloons

“Trog” is Wally Fawkes, the artist, who was also a clarinet player and a jazz band leader. Flook ran in the Daily Mail from 1949 to 1984 and began as a children’s strip focused on a little boy, Rufus and … See More

As noted in the previous post, it’s frustrating. But every once in a while, there are hints. For example, on the back of the second of the Gun Law strips is an advertisement for an auction to be held April … See More

CBG Senior Editor Maggie Thompson delves into Dark Horse’s ambitious reprint program in this month’s Beautiful Balloons, which you can download here. Maggie delved so deeply into the subject that she had more material than would fit in the print … See More

OK, I’ve been showing you samples of funny strips. Here’s an action-adventure British strip — and what’s strange about it is that, though it’s titled Gun Law, it is clearly new stories set in the mythos of the TV series … See More

It occurred to me to try to track down online images of (Clive creators) McGill and Poelsma — and I had no luck. Since that annoyed me, I thought I’d post this photo, which appeared on the back cover of … See More

The Clive strip (see earlier posting), while successful, soon evolved to pay more attention to his little sister, Augusta — and eventually changed its name to acknowledge the fact. (The “horrible cat” shown here, by the way, was named Crippen … See More

Another British strip of which I’m enormously fond is the British daily Clive, written by Angus McGill and drawn by Dominic Poelsma. Despite the fact that there were a few book collections, I can’t find out much about either, though … See More

While my primary scanning computer sits clicking to itself while it scans and fixes its C drive (though I have little hope that it will actually cure itself that way), Brent helped me work my way through the Photoshop Elements … See More

OK, this isn’t about comics, but I just had to gloat! In days long gone by, I occasionally caught glimpses of Rob Siegel at the Madison offices of the revered weekly The Onion. He was a wordsmith par excellence — … See More

Oh, that Scott McCloud! Canny folks who want to inform their friends about comics as an art form introduce them to Scott’s assortment of incredible guides in that art form. We know that. He’s helped countless hordes of would-be creators … See More