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WHOOPEE! PULL-OUTS IN 1979 – PART ONE
The score of the 26 ‘special’ issues of WHOOPEE! during 1978 (covered in my previous post) was dwarfed by the number of those offered in 1979 when the comic really went to town: as many as 35 issues...
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WHOOPEE! PULL-OUTS IN 1979 – PART TWO
As I said in my previous post where I covered the first seven months of 1979, WHOPPEE! was particularly generous with its pull-outs in that year. Let us resume the overview starting from the months of...
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BEANO, DANDY and TOPPER THIS WEEK in 1953
How about a gallery of the front covers of a few of the comics on newsstands this week all those years ago in 1953? The Topper was of course nearly twice the size of the other two. They are all...
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ANTHROPOMORPHIC STRIPS BY LEO BAXENDALE
Looking through my Beanos, I came across a curious example of Kat and Kanary in issue No. 770 (20 April, 1957). The curious thing about it is that the illustrator was Leo Baxendale, who to the best of...
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THE MOONSTERS ON SPARKY BACK COVERS – PART 5
It has been a quite a long time since my last gallery of SPARKY back pages featuring THE MOONSTERS by Bill Ritchie. Here is the next batch, from SPARKY Nos. 150 – 159 in 1967/68.Images are ©...
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MY FIRST PUBLISHED CARTOONING WORK
If you’ve been following my blog for some time, you may be aware that years ago I used to be a freelance cartoonist and comic artist here in Lithuania. In my interview for Steve Holland's Bear Alley...
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THE MOONSTERS ON SPARKY BACK COVERS – PART 6
The other day I found Bill Ritchie’s self-portrait in an episode of Hungry Hoss (The BEEZER cover-dated Jan. 19th, 1985), which has prompted me to post the next 10 instalments of The Moonsters as they...
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SOME OF MY EARLY COMIC WORK
I found a pile old comic art that I drew as a kid and thought I might share some of it here. I’ve mentioned on more than one occasion that one of my big inspirations to draw comics was an early issue...
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WHOOPEE! PULL-OUTS in 1980
In 1980 the first 4 issues of WHOOPEE! (January 5th, 12th, 19th and 26th) included the Giant All-Year X-Word and 1980 Calendarconsisting of 4 pull-outs printed on the centre pages.Assembly instructions...
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WHOOPEE! POSTERS AND PULL-OUTS IN 1981
In 1981, the New Year issue of WHOOPEE! (3rd January) came with this busy colour pull-out calendar contributed by Robert Nixon:The next pull-out came after a month’s break in the issue cover-dated 14th...
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WHOOPEE! PULL-OUTS AND FREE GIFTS IN 1982
In 1982 the first four issues of WHOOPEE! comic came with pull-out Cheeky Diary 1982, illustrated by Cheeky’s godfather Frank McDiarmid. The front covers of the four issues (Jan. 2nd, 9th, 16th and...
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WHOOPEE! PULL-OUTS AND FREE GIFTS IN 1983
Compared to other years, 1983 was lean in terms of WHOOPEE! pull-outs. The first one was the three-part Snack Man's Munch Maze Game, in the issues cover-dated 5th, 12th and 19th March, 1983:Here is how...
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WHOOPEE! PULL-OUTS AND FREEBIES IN 1984
Compared to the year before, 1984 was a lot more generous in terms of WHOOPEE! pull-outs and free gifts... The four issues of 10th, 17th, 24th and 31st March, 1984 contained Sweeny Toddler's Naughty...
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WHOOPEE! 1985 - A FEW OF THE LAST FRONT COVERS
In my previous post I said it was going to be the last in WHOOPEE! series for now, but I thought I might do another quick one… Only 13 issues were published in 1985 – the comic’s last year before it...
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BRIAN WALKER'S SCREAM INN IN WHOOPEE! - PART ONE
The recent passing of Brian Walker reminded me to cover the WHOOPEE! run of Scream Inn. The strip started in SHIVER AND SHAKE comic in March 1973 and continued there throughout the 79-week run of the...
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BRIAN WALKER'S SCREAM INN IN WHOOPEE! - PART TWO (YEAR 1976)
Here’s the Scream Inn guestbook for 1976, documenting who called and when. All 52 weekly episodes in WHOOPEE! comic were by the regular artist Brian Walker.January 3, 1976 ·Sleeping Rip Van...
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BRIAN WALKER'S SCREAM INN IN WHOOPEE! - PART THREE (YEAR 1977)
Here comes the third - and final - part of Scream Inn guestbook, documenting who and when called at the spooky establishment in 1977 in a bid to win the prize of a million quid. January 1, 1977...
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SCREAM INN IN... THE DANDY!
The year was 1989, around Halloween. 12 years had passed since Brian Walker’s last episode of Scream Inn in WHOOPEE! comic. But then out of the blue Innkeeper and his crew made a surprise appearance...
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WHOOPEE!’s SPOOKTACULAR 7 by BRIAN WALKER in 1977
SCREAM INN was an excellent strip by Brian Walker that started in SHIVER AND SHAKE in 1973 where it ran for 79 weeks, totalling 158 pages (plus two guest-appearance pages in The Wizards Anonymous...
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WHOOPEE!’s SPOOKTACULAR 7 by BRIAN WALKER - PART TWO - 1978
Here’s Part Two of my account of the ‘cases’ dealt with by the Spooktacular 7 (formerly known as the crew of Scream Inn). This blogpost covers all WHOPPEE! issues for 1978 till the end of April -...
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THE SPOOKTACULAR 7 by BRIAN WALKER - PART THREE
The third and final part of my account of the ‘cases’ dealt with by The Spooktacular 7, formerly known as the crew of Scream Inn, covers WHOPPEE! issues starting with the first one for May 1978 and...
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WHOOPEE! PULL-OUTS AND GIFTS in 1976
In 1976 WHOOPEE! celebrated the New Year with a two-part Creepy Calendar in the vein of the comic’s World-Wide Weirdies pin-up series, printed in the first two issues of the year:World-Wide Weirdies...
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THE MOONSTERS ON SPARKY BACK COVERS – PART 4
I recently acquired a copy of SPARKY No. 620 – the last issue that I needed for my complete set of this interesting title. I shared my joy on Twitter and on a few FB comics groups, and mentioned that I...
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WHOOPEE! POSTERS AND PULL-OUTS IN 1977
In 1977 IPC were again generous with their WHOOPEE! pull-outs – as many as 15 issues had something special in them. The first two numbers (1st and 8th January) had a pull out calendar. This is how the...
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WHOOPEE! PULL-OUTS IN 1978
In my opinion, in 1978 WHOOPEE! was beginning to loose some of its appeal. Scream Inn had ended last year in the issue dated 1st October, 1977, replaced for the time being by Spooktacular 7– still...
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