It's Christmaaaaas!

Wishing you all the compliments of the season and thank you for following this blog, buying my comics, supporting my auctions and for generally being the best! 

I don't know if this joke has been done before on not. I suspect it has! Hope you like it anyway. Happy Christmas!

First comic con announcement for 2025

So far I've been invited to four conventions for next summer. All being well I'll be able to attend them all, and hopefully more. I won't reveal what they are until they've been announced but one that has just been promoted is Lawless Comic Con, in Bristol over May 24th and 25th 2025.  

Having attended two of their previous shows (in 2022 and 2023) I'm very pleased to be returning. It's a convention that is totally dedicated to comics and I'm privileged to be part of such an impressive guest list.

You can find out more and book tickets from their website at this link:

https://lawlesscomiccon.co.uk/ 

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Get your Tough Guy digital comic!

Two years ago I compiled all my Tough Guy superhero parody strips into a 32 page digital comic and it's still available if you missed it! You can read it on your phone, tablet or desktop computer.

As I'm not selling any original art at present due to the Christmas backlog, and not doing a lot of mainstream comics work, any little income is very much appreciated.

Tough Guy and Scruffy collects all 12 episodes of the strip from the short-lived Triffik! weekly of 1992 plus a few bonus features and a new Christmas story into a 32 page digital comic. The humour is similar to Combat Colin; daft comedy-adventure and even dafter villains, and the strips are suitable for all ages. 

You can read or download the comic at the following link. After which, please, please donate the cover price of £3 (or whatever you wish) to me by PayPal. It's entirely voluntary and I know some people think everything online should be free for the taking but if you can donate a small amount my PayPal address is lew.stringer@BTopenworld.com

Thank you.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xOty4Q1HLooI6KVk9kmoVmodf5Pa7QTn/view 

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Keep a Dandy handy for Christmas

It's the last few days for you to buy your Dandy Annual 2025 in time for Christmas! Many shops have them discounted so you can grab a bargain. 112 pages of all new content featuring a mixture of old favourites and new characters. 

One of the new ones is the revamped Dinah Mo, using an old name but with a totally new character. Meet Dinah Modise and her family in four new two-page stories in the book. The character was created by the Dandy editors and assigned to me to write and draw her adventures. 

This is the 14th consecutive Dandy Annual I've contributed to and I won't be in the next one but it's been a pleasure and a privilege to work on the books. It's actually been 60 years this Christmas since I had my first Dandy Book (as it was called then) and I still remember unwrapping it and reading it on that happy day of long ago. (Yes, I still have it). For some readers, The Dandy Annual 2025 will be their first annual, and I hope it also gives them happy memories to last a lifetime.

Future auctions

All of my artwork from this week's auction was dispatched the other day Special Delivery and should be in the hands of the winners by now. Thanks again for your bids!

My next auction won't be until January as I feel it's best to avoid posting valuable items on the run up to Christmas. If there are any pages you're particularly interested in, please let me know, either by commenting below or via email or private message on social media. 

I will be blogging again before Christmas though. I just need to do my annual cyber-Christmas card first!

 

 

Thank you.

Thanks for your bids on my last auction of the year. The pages had far less bids than I expected (especially the Viz page) but I guess it's because people have Christmas expenses.

Nevertheless I do really appreciate your support this week and over the past year. It has helped. Thank you.

 

Original comic art pages! Auction ends soon!

It's very quiet on my eBay page this week which as surprised me as I've put some collectable pages up. I guess it's because people are saving for Christmas? Anyway, there's just one bid on each item so far and the auction ends tomorrow (Wednesday 11th). I know it's an expensive time of the year for many, and bills are coming in too, but if you want some original comic art for Christmas please bid what you can afford. Thank you.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?item=203554298786&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2562&_ssn=graphite47