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a fantastic job below is the cover of issue six in his 1978 autobiography a very funny business baxendale talks about these few smash front covers rather than reword or summarise i ll just let him do the talking while i was drawing all these features for fleetway comics i was producing a massive amount of undercover work for odhams my last official work for odhams was the eagle eye episode in wham no 96 for 16 april 1966 a lovely drawing wham s sister comic smash had started on 6 february 1966 after drawing the first three special free gift front covers for smash i created man from bungle as the permanent cover feature in an attractive big single picture format i only drew two of these before handing over to somebody else my grimly feendish character in eagle eye had proved very popular so he was given a page of his own in smash i drew the first nine grimly feendish pages very rapidly using a simplified variation of my normal drawing style i gave grimly some daft little subsidiary characters this was an attractive strip and was printed in full colour on the back cover of smash i also created bad penny a minnie the minx type character as a double page spread for smash these sets along with the eagle eye episode for 16 april were the last official pages i drew for odhams i was by now in full spate for fleetway but i was reluctant to give up the lucrative odhams market their rates of pay channelled large quantities of pages to odhams via mike brown a cartoon film animator i pencilled and mike inked them in one series we did in this manner was the eagle eye adventure which ran from 30 july to 7 september 1966 we turned out larger numbers of grimly feendish pages and bad penny sets in this way a very funny business is a must read for any fan of british comics so for any young smash fans who missed baxendale s work once his stunning front covers ceased all they had to do was flip over to the back page here are the grimly feendish strips for issues five and six respectively from smash 5 from smash 6 and finally a quick look at smash number 9 i ll show the front cover too because spencer has done a stunning job but it s the back cover that is of real interest for this post as baxendale mentioned in the quote above he drew nine grimly feendish pages very rapidly as such that would make this back page his very last official work for odhams and the wonderful power comics posted by george shiers at 7 42 pm 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels grimly feendish leo baxendale ron spencer smash the man from bungle thursday may 23 2024 scrunge or scrunch the many sounds of faceache following on from the ken reid post the other day here s an interesting piece of comic history that fleetway editor dez skinn shared to facebook recently it s a letter from ken to buster editor len wenn in which he complains that somebody has been changing faceache s sound effect from scrunch to scrunge when he changes his face here s what dez wrote about it online here s something for anybody who read british comics in the 1970s specifically faceache in buster i ve just unearthed a letter from writer artist ken reid to editor len wenn complaining that somebody in the office changed his sound effect scrunch to scrunge every week now i can confess twas i as len s number two being responsible for everything beyond the scripts which he was in charge of and i must admit while i still think scrunge sounds better scrunch was the more appropriate term sorry ken interestingly though scrunch wasn t even the original term when faceache first appeared in jet comic in may 1971 the first strip had him twang and boyn ng incidentally scrunch did appear later on from issue 21 but for much of jet s run it was actually the word squoylp that appeared to be the sound effect of choice the very first scrunch from jet 21 from the one and only jet annual 1973 i don t have my 70 s buster s to hand but based on this and ken s letter scrunge must have taken over after jet merged into buster in october 1971 after just 31 issues this would of course be when dez got his hands on the strip and although ken is of course a comic genius i think that just for once he may be wrong here in my opinion scrunge is the funnier word for those interested i actually shared all of faceache s appearances in jet on this blog a few years ago spread over three posts part one can be found here posted by george shiers at 1 21 am 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels buster dez skinn faceache jet ken reid len wenn tuesday may 21 2024 ken reid s first fudge the elf book 1939 the owner of a local bookshop gave me this for free yep free last week a copy of the very first fudge the elf book by the wonderful ken reid this book titled the adventures of fudge came out in 1939 when ken was just 20 years old he would eventually publish seven fudge books the last of which came out in 1951 fudge had started life as a strip in the manchester evening news on 7th april 1938 running until 1962 when ken paused the strip after falling ill he had been due to return but said that during his illness he was approached by agents from odhams who offered him 30 a page 12 panels on the condition of exclusivity at the same time dc thomson paid 15 a page anybody would have changed over he later said this first book cost 2 6 and featured all new material consisting of a 21 chapter story 128 pages minus the covers written and illustrated by ken this was different to the the later fudge books which all featured compilations of strips from the newspaper edited down and occasionally with new illustrations in a 1979 interview ken said the new illustrations came about as some of the original artwork had been lost i remember i had to redraw certain illustrations for this book for quite a few of the original frames had been lost i drew the replacements while still in the army stationed at bristol i had to stop behind at night and work on the book while the rest of the men went out after duties this is why some readers may detect a difference in style around the middle of the book a young ken reid signing copies of the first fudge book for fans the 1939 book had a good number of original illustrations throughout including plenty of full page panels including this full colour panel at the front of the book there s no doubt ken was a strong illustrator even by the age of 20 but he wasn t yet the artist he was to later become regardless it s nice to see this early work of such a distinctive and talented artist of course these days we might associate ken more with his work for dc thomson and odhams even ken himself considered jonah to be what he was best known for but it s clear that fudge was well loved by many and held a special place in his heart when he passed away in 1987 his obituary in the manchester evening news was headlined father of fudge dies and the character was even placed on a plaque on his gravestone image from fudge the elf com posted by george shiers at 6 12 pm 3 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels fudge the elf ken reid the adventures of fudge thursday may 16 2024 whizzer and chips from the drawing board to the final product here s an interesting glimpse into the production process of comics from back in the days before computers this piece shows how whizzer and chips issue dated 25th september 1982 made it from the art stage to the final product before this step of course the lettering would have been added on to the strip either written onto the board itself or more likely glued on top these images were shared by phil comics so i ll let his explanation do the talking on a recent visit to a collector s house he mentioned that back in 1982 83 aged 23 24 he was such a fan of the ipc comics that he got into some dialogue with ipc and was able to visit kings reach tower on the south bank of the thames the home of ipc comics several times and met some of the editors including david hunt eagle steve macmanus 2000ad ian vosper roy of the rovers plus group editor barrie tomlinson he told us he became interested in the comics when he bought the first issue of whizzer and chips in 1969 aged 10 being intrigued by the 2 comics in 1 format so the highlight of his ipc visits was when he went to the whizzer and chips office and was presented with a front cover of whizzer and chips by the editor bob paynter the production process was to scan the original artwork and to print it at a reduced size of the actual comic the printed scan of the original artwork was stuck manually onto white board in this example the cover where a date of issue and reader cover joke were also stuck on plus the copyright line at the bottom the transparent sheet was then applied over the artwork and colours applied as a point of interest we thought we d message barrie tomlinson on twitter who added the following when we sent him a few pics of the cover that looks like a thing which was sent to the printers editorial was doing the colour separations so it was cheaper at the printers the printer would use the black and white outline cover and then strip in the various colours shown on the overlay phil said this piece will be up for sale on his ebay page soon posted by george shiers at 3 17 am 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels whizzer and chips older posts home subscribe to posts atom buy atomic comic 3 x ray specs online whizzer and chips fan site search this blog followers welcome to wacky comics launched in 2011 wacky covers everything to do with british comics old and new dating back to ally sloper s half holiday and before right up to this weeks beano if you want to search for a certain comic artist or characters just type the keyword s into the search bar in the top left hand corner and provided i ve covered it the results should come up to view 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