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Post by tolworthy on Jun 13, 2014 9:49:04 GMT -5
This is a thread for classic collections that are either cheap to try - e.g. £5 or less, or havea very low cost per page, such as the Essentials and Showcase collections. Here's one I just found that would tempt me if I had an iPad: Thunderbirds by Frank Bellamy, 30 pages per volume, £1.99 each. I don't know the quality of the scans, and it's only digital, but that was beautiful work and the price is great. classiccomics.egmont.co.uk/shop-thunderbirds/Any more? |
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Post by ironchimp on Jun 13, 2014 10:35:47 GMT -5
There's a nice book on eagle comics i got from the library which explains in depth how each Dan Dare strip was made - they were using real models, lighting them all realistically, photoreferencing each character in costume for every shot, airbrushing every panel. It was just crazy how obsessed they were with accuracy - took 7 people 6 12 hr days just to produce two pages. Frank Bellamy et all were just mad geniuses. www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Jeff-Hawke-The-Ambassadors-9781845765989-Comic-Books-Brand-New-/400677895187?pt=UK_Books_Comics_Magazines_US_Comics_ET&hash=item5d4a437c13don't know if it's good or nor but Jeff Hawke sounded kind of interesting - for £3.50 for a hardback it's impossible to argue though - it seems it had a really big influence on sci-fi comics in scandanavia and italy and Brian Bolland drew the final issues before it ended. |
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Post by tolworthy on Jun 13, 2014 14:06:24 GMT -5
Thanks - that's my kind of price! I have a birthday coming up and very cash strapped relatives and suddenly realised that nothing I wanted was cheap.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 13, 2014 17:17:02 GMT -5
For humour fans, Archie has 1,000 page digests at about $10-$15 per copy, or about a cent per page.
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Post by Phil Maurice on Jun 13, 2014 19:50:22 GMT -5
If we're going cheap, it's tough to top the work of Mike Ploog, Marvel's go-to Monster artist in the early 70s. The art is extraordinary and appears in Werewolf By Night, Ghost Rider, Man-Thing, and perhaps most famously Monster of Frankenstein. An apprentice of Will Eisner, he did magazine work and provided storyboards for motion pictures, including John Carpenter's "The Thing" in 1981 before moving into commercial illustration.
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Post by tolworthy on Jun 14, 2014 1:27:36 GMT -5
Thanks for the Ploog plug. For humour fans, Archie has 1,000 page digests at about $10-$15 per copy, or about a cent per page. That's amazing! Thanks! I like to think that making Archie affordable (and accessible) is a big part of why he's survived so long. I wish all comics were like that. |
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Post by hondobrode on Jun 15, 2014 0:08:55 GMT -5
Gotta say, you guys are turning me on to Archie. Their more progressive stances as well, esp Afterlife With Archie.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 15, 2014 0:33:21 GMT -5
Although Afterlife is ending I hope they continue to push out new and interesting takes on their licenses. I never would have thought I'd be reading as much Archie as I am today.
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