Bonfire night with Valiant comic 1970!

Mike Western does a rocket theme for the fireworks issue..lI like how the moon fills the background and a lovely bright orange sky..

Ken Reid sure upped it in this one...who will destroy who?

a 3D looking fireworks ad..almost puppet like..

The only bonfire theme in the adventure stories..

Reg Parlett's the crows..

A reprint of an old Billy Bunter...not sure of the artist...please leave a comment if you know any of the artists..Thanks Lew A.J. Pease
I've been really enjoying Valiant recently and have bought a few issues now...will buy more...not too expensive on ebay...the covers as said before are ace..

Happy Bonfire night..

Mike Western's brilliant full page covers for Valiant

I bought this just for the cover alone...also the car drivers did survive as the train bounced it back on the bridge because of the speed it was going at!! What a cover!

I know this is also a true story...I do love Mike's large dramatic picture covers best..
There's lots of gems on ebay.co.uk and of course to buy. Will be getting more shortly..

Let me draw your pets for Christmas...my pencil is ready..

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If you live outside of Surrey then I need to add an extra £5 for postage and packaging.
Outside UK I would do a registered post to make sure its signed for £15 for p&p.
Also I can do colour painting of your pets like the horse above. I do this for £60.

I'm working on two commissions at the moment. But love to do more...they would make a great Christmas present for someone. :0)

Mickey Mouse Weekly UK with wonderful painted large covers!!

Issue #1 - 08/02/1936

http://www.thechildrenspicturecompany.c ... ouse/page1



I've found these examples..I like the bonfire one..poor Goofy..

The artists name in the international book of comics by Denis Gifford page 52 is
Wilfred Haughton painted the covers..

http://www.lambiek.net/artists/h/haughton_wilfred.htm

Haughton drew his final Mickey Mouse Weekly cover in 1940 (for Weekly 229)

Basil Reynolds took over who was also great at drawing the covers..he also drew in the comic Skit, Skat and the Captain..

Wilfred refused to update the look of Mickey from barnyard look to the clothed Mickey..so Basil took over..

http://www.comicsuk.co.uk/Forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=5157

more Basil Reynolds...

what great covers they were very eye catching and also printed large and colourful..

Mickey Mouse weekly was one of the influences of the creation of The Dandy in 1937..

Joined: Mon Feb 27, 2006 11:07 pm Posts: 3473 Location: Surrey Guildford  from Phil's link.the artwork is still brilliant...not Basil now.. Wonder if this artwork was used in America or just for the British and European market..  Heres a very British theme...so must have been for our country only  Union flag..  Bonfire night Nov 4th issue for Nov 5th..

Xray specs which I remember even today.and.scared me when I read this at 8 years old..

9th October 1982 Buster and Jackpot

I had a thing about skeletons which I found very scary when I was young. Dad bought me a plastic skeleton to hang up in my window to get me used to them. So this Xray specs story really got to my imagination..

It may look tame now and its not like the horror in Power comics of the 60's..

Sometimes though a strip can catch you off guard and give you nightmares..

Still find skeletons creepy...

seem to remember seeing a film of the man with xray eyes..having Ray's problem..

UPDATE Ken Reid- Faceache's Dad!

Message klakadak-ploobadoof  Post subject: Re: Ken Reid's 70's comic work Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2012 6:24 am  Joined: Sun Mar 30, 2008 7:26 pm Posts: 187 The episode that explains how Faceache found himself at Belmonte appeared in Buster and Monster Fun with the cover date of Jan 14th, 1978. Faceache has a diabolical dream about a headmaster welcoming him at his ghastly establishment. Next morning he’s woken up by Dad who has won £ 75,000 in the pools. At last they can go on that World cruise Dad has always dreamed about. Faceache is delighted because now they can live permanently in a posh hotel. Dad realises that because of Faceache’s scrunging hobby they’ll get kicked out of hotels all over the Globe. He announces that Faceache’s future home will be Belmonte. Faceache thinks it is the name of a posh hotel. Instead, Dad takes him to the Belmonte School for Uncontrollable Young Whelps. Dad is off on that World cruise, leaving Faceache in the iron hands of Mr. Albert Thrashbottom, the Headmaster who makes his first appearance in that same issue. Mr. Snipe joined the lineup a week later in Buster and Monster Fun dated Jan 21st, 1978. However, this wasn’t the last last time that the readers saw Faceache’s Dad: he was shown just one more time on board a luxury liner as it sailed past Mr. Thrashbottom drifting helplessly mid-ocean in his boat after having transported Faceache and Mr. Snipe to Bleak Rock Island for a one-boy survival course. Dad’s last appearance was inBuster and Monster Fun dated February 11, 1978. Check out my blog about comics from other peoples' childhood: http://kazoop.blogspot.com

Thanks for explaining what happens to the father and how Faceache ends up at a boarding school!
http://www.comicsuk.co.uk/Forum/viewtopic.php?f=127&t=5190&start=15

Buster and Jet 26th January 1974

Buster and Jet 29th Dec 1973

Faceache's Dad had to put up with being unemployed But also his scrunging Son. But I'll add Faceache had to put up with his angry mood swinging Dad! Quite a dark relationship! Almost Dickens type characters..

Buster 12th September 1981     

I thought this was very sad...But maybe Snide in a way has become his replacement father!!!!!

Also what happened to the mum!?                              

Ken Reid's Faceache at Belmonte School -late 70's part 3

Buster and Monster Fun 2nd July 1977  

Ken Reid is a great writer for Faceache.

This story above is quite strong stuff the way it seeps slowly over Faceache the bump on his head!!!

What a clever idea as well! Faceache really fitted in well when Buster and Monster Fun joined. Bringing other horror fun characters. You can see that Ken still drew two halves separately and large to get in all the fine detail. 

Buster 24th Nov 1979

 Faceache can scrunge 5 thousand times in different forms its revealed!!

Faceache leaves his father to start boarding school and meets some new regular characters the teacher and master (Thrashbottom and Snipe!) Caning in boarding schools still took place a long time after schools stopped! 

Faceache going to boarding school was a great idea and Snipe in particular is a great character its the big nose and chin!

Buster 22nd Sept 1979

Buster 29th Sept 1979

 At this time the stories were longer sometimes running into weeks..the two parter above is brilliant as it goes on and on and on...I don't have the next part...

Buster and Monster Fun 12th May 1979

  Heres Matron who looks like Snipe!! Maybe related! The last panel has Faceache going mad..Agh-h! That's done it I've gone! 

Ken Reid is like Segar's Popeye comic strip they both love drawing the strong emotions us humans have and can be very dark. We don't often see characters going really mad..very angry..doing bad things...good black humour in comics.

I will do a post on Faceache's Dad which I forgot to do in the first post. 

More on Faceache to come....its been great rereading my collection on this brilliant strip.

Ken Reid's Faceache part 2 -mid 70's

Buster and Cor!! 18th Jan 1975

Love that last panel it so strange!

When Buster joined Cor!! the comic got slightly smaller which to me was a shame. 

As you can see the top row is harder to see all the detail. The strip before had an extra half a row of space making all the difference. In Buster this also effected the adventure strips having less space to tell a story.

Buster 8th Nov 1975

So Ken adapted and drew it has three rows. He also made the panels thinner to get the extra panels in.

buster and Cor!! 7th June 1975

Also Faceache scrunges were more larger than life then before and the strip now says instead of a hundred faces But a thousand faces he can do!

Looking at the early Ken Reid's Faceache...

Buster and Jet 14th October 1972

What has been a revelation to me is that Ken Reid wrote Faceache all the way up to the early 80's only then did other writers take over...it happened when Jackpot joined Buster 1982. It shows how good Ken was at writing the strip and with his dark humour. 

Looking at these two different strips and others I've noticed that Ken loved writing accents for his characters..or speech impediments. Ken did this in Jinx for The Beano with her buck teeth making her say th..all the time...like -Hi readerth! my nameth is Jinx's! Another great thing Ken wrote was funny sound effects like the strip above. 

We don't see dialogue from characters being different much these days in comics...like the way Stan Lee wrote for his Marvel characters. It really is a great character device and should be used.

Buster and Jet 28th April 1973

This strip really creeped me out! 

You can really see Faceache's  freaked out by it.. also the strangeness of it ..also the thought of the father is talking to them..which we don't see But can imagine!! Maybe its the mushtooms having no eyes But large mouths make it horrible to look at..

I'm going to have to get some more Buster from the 70's!

Girl comics of yesterday blog...

I don't cover many girl comics due to I never read them...But here a great blog that celebrates them..



http://girlscomicsofyesterday.com/2012/09/the-secrets-of-charlie-chatterbox/#comment-2721

This link show a creepy dummy that can talk!! and gets her into trouble!!



http://girlscomicsofyesterday.com/
Welcome to Girls Comics of Yesterday.  A fan site dedicated to British girl comics of the past, looking at three of the most long lasting publications of Bunty, Mandy and Judy.

A blog well worth looking at and covers girl annuals and gives a flavour of there stories...they can be very creative, strange and dark!

Also thrilling! and Surprising! See the Dennis the Menace on stage! :)

A picture tribute to the Dandy by Mike...its packed full of fun characters..

See Mike's brilliant picture..

Here’s a tribute to the Dandy I read as a kid back in The Seventies. These characters were so well realised by the original artists that it was a pleasure draw them, but hard to do them justice.

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This should be in The Dandy a great tribute...