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RIP Raymond Briggs. He delighted kids with Fungus the Bogeyman and The Snowman, and terrified adults with When the Wind Blows and The Tin Pot Foreign General. And he always did so with a rare genius. One of our greatest cartoonists.
The glorious excesses of ALIEN: THE ILLUSTRATED STORY (1979) by Archie Goodwin and Walt Simonson. The best comic book movie adaptation ever?
@AFiendOnFilm We certainly did! 😉 And if we couldn't get in to see Jaws, there was always Hook Jaw... y'know, for kids.
The brainchild of underground cartoonist Art 'Maus' Speigelman, GARBAGE PAIL KIDS (1985) became a sensation. Originally painted by John Pound, they delighted kids and horrified parents.
I'd actually forgotten how genuinely disgusting some of them were...
Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot would have thrombos if they clapped eyes on these...
Never mind the Pan Book of Horror Stories, Tom Adams' infamous cover art for Agatha Christie novels was the stuff of nightmares.
I've just stumbled across the glorious BUSTER'S GHOST (1992-93) from Roy of the Rovers; a cross between Billy's Boots and American Werewolf in London, a young footballer is haunted and (occasionally possessed) by the decomposing ghost of his cousin...
Happy 45th birthday, @2000AD! My dad bought Prog 1 for me when I was 6 (and snuck a read of Dan Dare for himself). It was love at first sight: you gave me the best characters ever, introduced me to satire, informed my politics, and you're STILL the Galaxy's Greatest!