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Can I bear to get rid of 1978’s Holmes & Yoyo Annual? Because how often do you get to own an annual with what’s quite possibly the worst artwork ever seen in a UK hardback holiday special?
Original art by Michel Blanc-Dumont featuring Young Blueberry, from 2001.
Anthony Maitland’s covers for the 1972 Puffin Books edition of John Gordon’s “The Giant Under The Snow”. I wish I’d come across this as a nipper. What a fabulously shiversome cover it is.
Stan Sakai’s original art - splendid as absolutely always - for the hardback & softback editions of his “Space Usagi” series from 1998.
Every day I’m going to take a comics book more or less at random from the shelf & make friends with it again. Today it’s Raymond Briggs' "When The Wind Blows" from 1982. One of the great graphic novels, I feel perfectly safe in saying.
Carlos Meglia’s original cover painting featuring Superman for 2003’s El Historietista #3. It’s not Curt Swan’s Man of Steel, I’ll give you, or, indeed, “mine”, but it radiates such exuberance & conviction. Let a thousand flowers bloom etc etc.
File under head canon :) Several Blackhawk portrait sketches by Cooke do underscore the fiercer aspects of his nature.
Michael Cho’s retro-wonderful cover for 2016’s The Flash: The Silver Age Vol. 1.
Original 1974 Star Trek fan art by John Byrne featuring the USS Enterprise, as appeared in The Collector #29.
"Your head will be the first to roll!"
Original 1960 art by Sydney Jordan for his & William Patterson “Jeff Hawke” daily newspaper strip.