Nutty (D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd.) #01 (16 Feb 1980).
Batman Monthly Presents (London Editions Magazines) #02 The Riddler (1991).
Primo Club Magazine (Primo) #01 (1965)
Smash Hits (EMAP National Publications Ltd.) #05 () *first fortnightly issue*
2000 A.D. Space Quiz Book by Roy Preston (Mirror Books; 1980)
First Appearances:
Lt. Kurt Stahlmann (Iron Annie) in Warlord (D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd.) #177 (11 Feb 1978).
Sgt. Jim Steadman (The Tankies) in Warlord (D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd.) #177 (11 Feb 1978).
Eric Wimp (Bananaman) in Nutty #01 (16 Feb 1980).
The Bar-O Boys in Nutty #01 (16 Feb 1980).
Big 'n' Bud in Nutty #01 (16 Feb 1980).
Dick Turban in Nutty #01 (16 Feb 1980).
Doodlebug in Nutty #01 (16 Feb 1980).
Ethel Red in Nutty #01 (16 Feb 1980).
Mitey Joe in Nutty #01 (16 Feb 1980).
Pearl Potter in Nutty #01 (16 Feb 1980).
Peter Pest in Nutty #01 (16 Feb 1980).
Pig Tales in Nutty #01 (16 Feb 1980).
Samuel Creeps in Nutty #01 (16 Feb 1980).
The School Belles in Nutty #01 (16 Feb 1980).
Scoopy in Nutty #01 (16 Feb 1980).
Steevie Star in Nutty #01 (16 Feb 1980).
Wacky the Crackpot Inventor in Nutty #01 (16 Feb 1980).
The Wild Rovers in Nutty #01 (16 Feb 1980).
CPO Sam Steele (Steele's Squad) in Warlord (D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd.) #490 (11 Feb 1984).
Paul (Finn) in 2000 A.D. (Fleetway Editions Ltd.) Prog 770 (15 Feb 1992).
Births:
Cyril Price (1905); Frank S. Pepper (1910)
Deaths:
Fortunino Matania (1963); Franco Caprioli (1974); John Miles (1998)
Notable Events:
Feature film From Hell, based on the comic by Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell, released in the UK in 2002.
Revisiting the House of Hammer video uploaded to YouTube by Dez Skinn in 2013.
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Showing posts with label Eddie Campbell. Show all posts
Friday, February 8, 2019
Wednesday, November 14, 2018
Lucifer #2
Aug 1990. Cover price £1.10.
28 pages. B&W contents.
Trident Comics.
Edited by Martin Skidmore.
Cover by Paul Grist.
Contents:
If there's one thing you don't do, it is call the ruler of Hell a no-good bum.
Lucifer isn't a man to be trifled with. With his mother dealt with, Lucifer finds complete control over Hell to be boring, pointing out the world of men, and stating that it is the goal... Hell's prize. Charon, once introduced to the "new boss" of course, rows Lucifer across the River Styx, where the he learns that entrance to Hell over the river used to cost one obol. Which gives him an idea how to raise funds...
There's a nice fourth-wall shaking moment when the wall between Hell and Earth is torn asunder, and it momentarily appears that Lucifer is looking at the reader. He isn't, of course, arriving on a street where scientists and the military have arrived to investigate strange readings from their equipment. Television news cameras capture their arrival, describing the denizens of Hell as aliens, and warning the populace to remain in their homes.
Finding a room to rent, Lucifer starts to plan his conquest of the world. As you do.
There are moments when I am taken aback at the foresight of writers working in comics. You wouldn't imagine that a great many predictions would prove correct, but there is a television program included here which is named Pop-o-Tunities (basically Opportunity Knocks with a musical angle), over a decade before Pop Idol and Popstars. Eddie Campbell has seen the future, and he is ready to skewer it.
Madam, a pop singer who appears on the show gives Lucifer an idea. Obtaining her address from Channel 10's reception, he approaches the young woman with promises of success, riches, adulation, and celebrity, though her reaction is less than enthusiastic. Seeing the error of his approach, Lucifer changes the deal, requesting that she spend a week with her aunt in Michigan when she is at the height of her popularity, so that he can inform the press she has been kidnapped. Did Fairlie Arrow read this?
With the plan in motion, Lucifer sets about rigging the charts - if it is good enough for Stock Aitken Waterman...
When Madam is sufficiently famous, and the plan is about to be put into action, everything seems to go wrong - Steve, her husband, arrives and assaults the press. The resultant storm of newspaper headlines plays into Lucifer's plans, so he rolls with the punches. First claiming that she has been kidnapped, then that he is responsible, on behalf of the moral majority of America.
As the city goes straight to... Well, you-know-where, Lucifer sends his troops out.
Some nice cameos (including Swamp Thing and Rorschach) enliven the artwork, though neither creator need tricks to make the comic entertaining - there's a heart to this title. Although the title character is, by any definition, not a particularly nice individual, he's amusing, rather petty, and ultimately very real. It is difficult enough making regular characters believable, but making a conqueror of the underworld believable is an extraordinary achievement.
There's a brutally (apparently) simplistic image of Lucifer carried aloft over the city, rendered as white squares against a black background, which is oddly beautiful. Indeed, there's a great deal of wondrous imagery throughout, playing with layout, space, and time in an confident chiaroscuro style. While there are hints of influences here and there (a touch of Hugo Pratt, a dash of Mike McMahon), Grist owns the pages of Lucifer with a remarkable assuredness.
28 pages. B&W contents.
Trident Comics.
Edited by Martin Skidmore.
Cover by Paul Grist.
Contents:
2 Credits; illustration by Paul Grist. / Indicia
3 Lucifer, part two, Book Two w: Eddie Campbell; a: Paul Grist.
27 A Different Kind of Antichrist... in-house advertisement for The Saviour; illustration by Nigel Kitching.
See with what heat these dogs of Hell advance to waste and havoc yonder world.Lucifer, now firmly ensconced as the new King of Hell, takes stock of his minions. Refusing sausage and mash from the chef, he requests caviar and French fries, champagne in his coffee, and custard in his flambe banana. A parade before the assembled crowds of Hell seems to go well enough, but then his mother calls him out - first asking him why he wasn't present when she and Lucifer's brothers were shot by police, then calling him a no-good bum.
John Milton, PARADISE LOST, 1667.
If there's one thing you don't do, it is call the ruler of Hell a no-good bum.
Lucifer isn't a man to be trifled with. With his mother dealt with, Lucifer finds complete control over Hell to be boring, pointing out the world of men, and stating that it is the goal... Hell's prize. Charon, once introduced to the "new boss" of course, rows Lucifer across the River Styx, where the he learns that entrance to Hell over the river used to cost one obol. Which gives him an idea how to raise funds...
There's a nice fourth-wall shaking moment when the wall between Hell and Earth is torn asunder, and it momentarily appears that Lucifer is looking at the reader. He isn't, of course, arriving on a street where scientists and the military have arrived to investigate strange readings from their equipment. Television news cameras capture their arrival, describing the denizens of Hell as aliens, and warning the populace to remain in their homes.
Finding a room to rent, Lucifer starts to plan his conquest of the world. As you do.
There are moments when I am taken aback at the foresight of writers working in comics. You wouldn't imagine that a great many predictions would prove correct, but there is a television program included here which is named Pop-o-Tunities (basically Opportunity Knocks with a musical angle), over a decade before Pop Idol and Popstars. Eddie Campbell has seen the future, and he is ready to skewer it.
Madam, a pop singer who appears on the show gives Lucifer an idea. Obtaining her address from Channel 10's reception, he approaches the young woman with promises of success, riches, adulation, and celebrity, though her reaction is less than enthusiastic. Seeing the error of his approach, Lucifer changes the deal, requesting that she spend a week with her aunt in Michigan when she is at the height of her popularity, so that he can inform the press she has been kidnapped. Did Fairlie Arrow read this?
With the plan in motion, Lucifer sets about rigging the charts - if it is good enough for Stock Aitken Waterman...
When Madam is sufficiently famous, and the plan is about to be put into action, everything seems to go wrong - Steve, her husband, arrives and assaults the press. The resultant storm of newspaper headlines plays into Lucifer's plans, so he rolls with the punches. First claiming that she has been kidnapped, then that he is responsible, on behalf of the moral majority of America.
As the city goes straight to... Well, you-know-where, Lucifer sends his troops out.
This is me. Lucifer. In my triumph.
Before me the way is cleared by the beast with three heads.
- and before the beast, the four bicyclists of the Apocalypse.
Some nice cameos (including Swamp Thing and Rorschach) enliven the artwork, though neither creator need tricks to make the comic entertaining - there's a heart to this title. Although the title character is, by any definition, not a particularly nice individual, he's amusing, rather petty, and ultimately very real. It is difficult enough making regular characters believable, but making a conqueror of the underworld believable is an extraordinary achievement.
There's a brutally (apparently) simplistic image of Lucifer carried aloft over the city, rendered as white squares against a black background, which is oddly beautiful. Indeed, there's a great deal of wondrous imagery throughout, playing with layout, space, and time in an confident chiaroscuro style. While there are hints of influences here and there (a touch of Hugo Pratt, a dash of Mike McMahon), Grist owns the pages of Lucifer with a remarkable assuredness.
#01
Lucifer
#03
Sunday, October 28, 2018
Lucifer #1
Jul 1990. Cover price £1.10.
28 pages. B&W contents.
Trident Comics.
Edited by Martin Skidmore.
Cover by Paul Grist.
Contents:
Lucifer, the fallen angel of Biblical fame, wearing his suit of feathers symbolic of former glories... telling his life story from a padded cell. There are few comics which open with such an audacious premise, but Lucifer is special. Under an attractive Grist cover, which establishes Lucifer as being a bit off, allowed to transverse the space normally held between character and reader, It may be due to him being completely round the bend, but maybe (just maybe) he's telling the truth.
The story begins with Lucifer being hit by a car while crossing the road, and in hospital encounters a man who states that his nose contains the other place... The inferno... Hell. How, one wonders, do all the damned get into it? They will be reduced microscopic on Judgement Day, else there wouldn't be any room on the planet if every man, woman, and child who ever lived came back at their original size. Seeing the chance of a lifetime, Lucifer sneaks into the operating theatre and steals the growth. For two weeks he attempts conjurations to enter the dimension.
As the carbuncle grows, Lucifer finds himself at the gates of Hell where he is refused entry. Entering with the assistance of four demons (returning from a meeting of the Maidstone coven) by using the name Mucusface, he discovers that the bridge to Hell is constructed of every politician who achieved their selfish ends on the backs of the people. The road to hell is, literally, paved with politicians.
Lucifer's journey through the layers of Hell is illuminating to the young man, though after encountering soccer hooligans finds himself rather thirsty - which is solved by a trip to Hell's bar, where those who never purchase a round are forced to watch on, sucking on corks for all eternity, as demons quench their thirst. Eventually meeting Satan, Lucifer stabs him in the chest and takes his place as master of Hell.
While not deliberately setting out to note prior publications, there are many small touches which make the title an appealing prospect for those willing to look beyond what is presented. Bellygrunt is reminiscent of Oojah or Shake, and Puepizza's heads are strangely familiar. Clever (and not so clever) wordplay peppers the script, although this is less to show off than it is to highlight character quirks, perfectly capturing a childish, impulsive personality who may or may not be the actual Lucfer.
Gloriously silly, endlessly amusing, and with a great central character.
Trident's lack of proofreading their own adverts is painfully noticeable here. A blemish, however slight, on the overall package.
28 pages. B&W contents.
Trident Comics.
Edited by Martin Skidmore.
Cover by Paul Grist.
Contents:
2 Credits; illustrated by Paul Grist (reproduction in B&W of cover). / Indicia
3 Hi, I'm Lucifer w: Eddie Campbell; a: Phil Elliott.
27 Phil Elliott and Eddie Cambell are also featured in Trident 7 in-house advertisement.
Lucifer, the fallen angel of Biblical fame, wearing his suit of feathers symbolic of former glories... telling his life story from a padded cell. There are few comics which open with such an audacious premise, but Lucifer is special. Under an attractive Grist cover, which establishes Lucifer as being a bit off, allowed to transverse the space normally held between character and reader, It may be due to him being completely round the bend, but maybe (just maybe) he's telling the truth.
The story begins with Lucifer being hit by a car while crossing the road, and in hospital encounters a man who states that his nose contains the other place... The inferno... Hell. How, one wonders, do all the damned get into it? They will be reduced microscopic on Judgement Day, else there wouldn't be any room on the planet if every man, woman, and child who ever lived came back at their original size. Seeing the chance of a lifetime, Lucifer sneaks into the operating theatre and steals the growth. For two weeks he attempts conjurations to enter the dimension.
As the carbuncle grows, Lucifer finds himself at the gates of Hell where he is refused entry. Entering with the assistance of four demons (returning from a meeting of the Maidstone coven) by using the name Mucusface, he discovers that the bridge to Hell is constructed of every politician who achieved their selfish ends on the backs of the people. The road to hell is, literally, paved with politicians.
Lucifer's journey through the layers of Hell is illuminating to the young man, though after encountering soccer hooligans finds himself rather thirsty - which is solved by a trip to Hell's bar, where those who never purchase a round are forced to watch on, sucking on corks for all eternity, as demons quench their thirst. Eventually meeting Satan, Lucifer stabs him in the chest and takes his place as master of Hell.
While not deliberately setting out to note prior publications, there are many small touches which make the title an appealing prospect for those willing to look beyond what is presented. Bellygrunt is reminiscent of Oojah or Shake, and Puepizza's heads are strangely familiar. Clever (and not so clever) wordplay peppers the script, although this is less to show off than it is to highlight character quirks, perfectly capturing a childish, impulsive personality who may or may not be the actual Lucfer.
Gloriously silly, endlessly amusing, and with a great central character.
Trident's lack of proofreading their own adverts is painfully noticeable here. A blemish, however slight, on the overall package.
Friday, October 26, 2018
On This Day: 26 Oct
Sláine: The Horned God (Fleetway Publications; 1989].
The Chronicles of Genghis Grimtoad (Marvel) nn (1990).
Births:
Lionel Hale (1909); Francisco Solano López (1928); Les Gibbard (1945)
Deaths:
William Hogarth (1764); Albert George Morrow (1927); Lawson Wood (1957); C.L. Doughty (1985); Malcolm Douglas (2009)
Notable Events:
The Revolver Hallowe'en Tour descended on Odyssey 7, University Shopping Centre, Oxford Road, Manchester, in 1990.
Private Eye at 45 exhibition began, at the Cartoon Museum, London, in 2006.
Charlie Peace: His Amazing Life and Astounding Legend stage show premiere, at the Belgrade Theatre, in 2013. Eddie Campbell had a hand in the stage design, though the production wasn't connected to the long-running Buster strip.
The Chronicles of Genghis Grimtoad (Marvel) nn (1990).
Births:
Lionel Hale (1909); Francisco Solano López (1928); Les Gibbard (1945)
Deaths:
William Hogarth (1764); Albert George Morrow (1927); Lawson Wood (1957); C.L. Doughty (1985); Malcolm Douglas (2009)
Notable Events:
The Revolver Hallowe'en Tour descended on Odyssey 7, University Shopping Centre, Oxford Road, Manchester, in 1990.
Private Eye at 45 exhibition began, at the Cartoon Museum, London, in 2006.
Charlie Peace: His Amazing Life and Astounding Legend stage show premiere, at the Belgrade Theatre, in 2013. Eddie Campbell had a hand in the stage design, though the production wasn't connected to the long-running Buster strip.
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