Vic Neill's Plug!!

lovely bright colours!!


This comic with good shiney quality paper and strong covers must have stood out very well at newsagents...todays comics are also glossy like Plug and more expensive like Plug!!


Loved the way Vic used the lettering on Plug comic cover...


Plug had some weird characters...all the better for it!!



My favourite Plug cover and the one I remember seeing on a rainy school day and we were given comics to read...first time I'd seen Plug...(also Jackpot comic)it really stood out!




Love the framing of this comic page made to look like a book shelf. Vic really showed off Plug's relatives.






A parody of Top of the pops dancers Legs and Co...centre page poster from Plug comic.



I like Vic's comic work a lot...
more to come in another blog post..

Tom Paterson's The Legend of Little Plum

4th July `998.

This only lasted a few issues..then Hunt Emerson drew a great version later for the Beano.

Love to see Tom Paterson doing this strip again.it would be great fun with the menacing bears and the comical fights.

A Vic Neill blog post is coming soon...done the scanning..

Give a present to teacher...

I used this Birthday card for my sister who teaches...:)

Lew Stringer drawing for Whoopee!! and Jackpot annual!

From Jackpot annual 1986....see Lews' signature in the first panel..a ghost artist with a name...normally drawn by Tom Paterson.

Hi Peter,

Regarding the Scooper strip. Although I'd been freelancing for Marvel UK since 1983, the Jackpot Annual job was my first published strip for IPC. I'd already drawn the first Tom Thug strip for IPC but that remained unpublished at that time while the company made their minds up about the comic. So Bob Paynter, Group Editor of the IPC humour comics, kindly offered me the Jackpot Annual four pager.

I was asked to ghost Tom Paterson's style, but I was allowed to sign my name to the strip. I was quite anxious drawing it, - my first strip for the mighty IPC, and in an annual too, but very pleased with how it turned out. It's not perfect by any means, and I'm sure I'd draw it differently today, but it was fun to do. I can't remember who wrote the script but Bob Paynter had subbed it and changed some bits before I received it.

The following year I did a six page Bookworm strip for the Whoopee Annual, which I both scripted and drew. This time I was asked to ghost Syd Burgon slightly but give it my own touch. That was a fun one too, as I had Bookworm go to an alien planet.

Lew

From Whoopee!! annual 1987. It was normal practice for other artist to draw other peoples strip. It was a good platform for new comic artists to be tried out.












Lew Stringer who signs this work in a special annual Sci-fi story...very different to a normal Bookworm down to earth story. Its great fun seeing the aliens and monsters drawn in a fun way.

Bookworm normally drawn by the ace Sid Burgon..


Scooper by Tom Paterson

Well worth getting IPC humour annuals there was some nice longer stories in them and different artists experimenting with other characters...

Three Cool cats poster by me part 2

I've never been good at lettering...its hard to draw straight...curve lines without wobbling...so here is my second version! I've used a computer font..
I think it looks smarter now.


Also changed my Traffic light one..the circles and the red and green men look better. Also the light grey shows off the traffic light better than black.



I've changed the through the tulips wording.lots of people couldn't read it...changed the feet.got rid of the toe nails.more abstract now...moved the bee...
looks a lot better..

A groovy posters by me..3

More Creepy Creations to see...But who drew this..

But this new one is not by Ken Reid...who drew this..

UPDATE
Alf Saporito possibly Peter. from Kashgar at comicsuk forum.

http://petergraycartoonsandcomics.blogspot.com/2008/03/creepy-creations-by-ken-reid-1-30.html

http://petergraycartoonsandcomics.blogspot.com/2008/03/creepy-creations-by-ken-reid-31-60.html

http://petergraycartoonsandcomics.blogspot.com/2008/03/creepy-creations-by-ken-reid-61-81.html

thanks to Philip Mason for the scans..