FOR THE RECORD: 1990s 7" SINGLES

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FOR THE RECORD: Concert tickets

A page from my new comic book, For the Record, on concert tickets, and keeping track of shows...

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FOR THE RECORD: 7" Singles - childhood

Here's another page from my new comic For the Record, based on loving music all my life:

The comic is now available here. Thanks.

FOR THE RECORD, WIP: 7" Singles - The Nineties

7" singles continued to appear sporadically throughout the 1990s, including Bryan Adams, Adam Ant, Cornershop, Dandy Warhols, Duran Duran, Fun Lovin' Criminals, Massive Attack, Jimmy Page Robert Plant, Pixies, Prince, Radiohead, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Republica, Supergrass, U2, and Yes.

I am working on a comic book called "For the Record" about my love of music over the years, and posting weekly updates of progress.

FOR THE RECORD, WIP: 7" singles - childhood

This week, a celebration of the 7" singles I owned as a youngster, including Adam Ant, Big Country, David Bowie, Dexy's Midnight Runners, Eurythmics, Eddy Grant, Rick Springfield, and John Williams!

I am working on a comic book called "For the Record" about my love of music over the years, and posting weekly updates of progress.

FOR THE RECORD, WIP: Concert tickets (& a doodle)

This week, a challenge to make note of the gigs you've been to.

I am working on a comic book called "For the Record" about my love of music over the years, and posting weekly updates of progress.

FOR THE RECORD INKS: Adam and the Ants

I've been inking the Adam and the Ants page today.

I'm aiming for a bit more of a DIY/grungy feel for this next comic book. As such I've eschewed my usual ruler lined panel borders (which I always find to be essential).

FOR THE RECORD PENCILS: Adam and the Ants

 I was pencilling today. It was good fun drawing Adam Ant.

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This week's page is up. You can have a look here.

PS.
On Tuesday, I wrote about Paul Gravett and Peter Stanbury's book Great British Comics, posting a lovely image from a 1981 Adam Ant comic. It's uncredited in the book, and I asked if anyone knew.
Well, Gravett is way ahead of me and as you can see from the bottom of this page, the artwork is by Maureen and Gordon Gray. Job's a good 'un.

GET THEE TO A LIBRARY 3


















In my continuing mission to convince you to go to the library and check out what they have on comics which started here and continued here, I present Great British Comics by Paul Gravett and Peter Stanbury. This book is more recent than those other two, having been released in 2006.

Gravett is a comics publisher, historian and general enthusiast. His writing covers a lot of bases regarding comics, as he writes on nostalgia, comedy, super-heroes, self-published works and anything else he deems good. This book is a treat. It's jam-packed full of images from comics down the decades.

A few of my personal highlights:

















This is really neat. Near the beginning of the book, there is a set of comics writers and artists' bios presented in the style of old cigarette cards. A nice touch.


















As I've never stopped reading comics and kept most of the ones I had as a kid, I rarely find any that I had forgotten about. This Adam Ant page though was like a bolt from the blue when I saw it reproduced herein. It's lovely art, but uncredited (it was published by D.C. Thomson after all). It actually reminds me of Walt Simonson, which sees highly unlikely, to say the least. Does anyone know who drew this?


















Look at this page! Three of my absolute favourites of the 70s/80s: Marvelman by Alan Moore and Garry Leach, Night Raven by Jamie Delano and David Lloyd and Captain Britain by Alan Moore and Alan Davis. That is value for money. The 1969 Billy the Cat stuff by Sandy Calder looks fun too.

Gravett is a tireless campaigner for comics. Check out his website. It is an invaluable resource in keeping on top of what's going on in the world of comics.