Scarred for Lifeさんのイラストまとめ

Here's how we here at Scarred For Life look during this heatwave.

From 1984-86, Ladybird books (with Pickwick Tell-A-Tale) produced their Horror Classics range - beautifully illustrated little books with a cassette dramatization to boot! That 'Mummy' cover is genuinely chilling...

Usborne's The World of the Unknown Monsters had dinosaurs, minotaurs, a hideous Medusa and so, so much blood.

The stories may have been variable - taking Assignment One, with Sapphire and Steel helping a pair of kids, as its template - but the artwork was always stunning. And look! It's good old Lead!

#InternationalCatDay

From 1972 to 1982, Spire Christian Comics, usually the work of Archie artist Al Hartley, told gritty tales of hardship with an uplifting Christian message at the end. Including an adaptation of Maria Hirschmann's autobiography Hansi: The Girl who Loved the Swastika...

A huge hello to all our new followers! We've written two big books about growing up in Britain surrounded by the dark pop culture of the 70s and 80s (and what that did to us), with a third on the way (details below).

So expect more of this sort of thing:

Dell's 'Flying Saucers Comics' (1967) featured stories inspired by real-life UFO reports, with classic Grey aliens and a full-blown abduction.

Eat that, Whitley Streiber!

Horror was everywhere in the 1970s and comics like Shiver and Shake made the most of it. Week after week, kids could marvel at the genius and invention of artists such as Ken Reid and Brian Walker.

As a child, nothing was more exciting than the luridly colourful covers of House of Hammer magazine because, often, the artwork was far more effective than the films they portrayed. All four examples here are by Brian Lewis who painted the majority of the covers.