In the first volume The Return of the Daleks, we had seen the back-up strips to the end of Doctor Who Weekly and the beginning of Doctor Who Monthly. They could have made these two volumes ‘The Weekly Years’ and … Continue reading ‘Black Sun Rising – The Complete Doctor Who Back-Up Tales Volume 2’ by David Lloyd, Steve Moore, Paul Neary, John Stokes etc.: Review
As impressive as they appear to be, I’m not a religious purchaser of the Panini collections of Doctor Who comic strips. To be brutally frank, none of them after the Seventh Doctor run has really grabbed my attention; I haven’t … Continue reading ‘The Return of the Daleks – The Complete Doctor Who Back-Up Tales Volume 1’ by Steve Dillon, David Lloyd, Steve Moore & Paul Neary: Review
For a movie that was rated certificate ‘X’ in the UK (the ‘18’ certificate was still over a year away), Marvel UK seemed quite keen on promoting John Boorman’s Excalibur upon its release in 1981. Not only was there a … Continue reading The Legend Comes to Life Again! Merlin and Excalibur Revisited
From the late-70s to the mid-80s, the madcap cartoons of Tim Quinn and Dicky Howett were an integral part of almost every title published by Marvel UK. One of their most fondly remembered strips was Doctor Who? which ran in … Continue reading ‘Who’s 60? A Celebration of Whos’ by Tim Quinn & Dicky Howett: Review
In my early teens, I became obsessed by The Goon Show; the anarchic radio comedy of the 1950s starring Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan and Harry Seacombe that bewitched my parents’ generation and influenced artists as diverse as Monty Python’s Flying … Continue reading ‘The Goon Cartoons’ by Spike Milligan and Pete Clarke
Throughout my entire childhood, my family always had a summer holiday. We didn’t have a lot of money and the very thought of a foreign holiday was… well, foreign to us, but we always had at least one annual foray … Continue reading Channel 33⅓ – The Children’s Comic TV Station
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