I won't sugar coat this. It's the most inaccurate book about comics I've ever read.
There are mistakes on almost every page, attributing the wrong strips to the wrong comics, gushing about characters that never existed, and basically fabricating things that never happened. How could an author make such errors? Quite easy, when the "author" is so obviously A.I.
Amongst the chaos that claims Whoopee merged with Nutty (two different companies), that Buster comic ended up being called Buster and Friends, and inventing a "popular" 1985 humour comic called The Joker, it even finds a way to print misinformation about me.
Claims I wrote two books about the life and work of Tom Paterson. Nope. Total fabrication.
Claims I was influenced by Viz to create Tom Thug and that Tom moved from Oink! to The Beano "rubbing shoulders with Dennis and Walter". Nope. I wasn't even aware of Viz when I created Tom, and he moved to Buster, not The Beano.
The misinformation about me is only mild but I wanted to nip it in the bud before others use it as research. Taking it into context of the entire book being wrong, it's a publication to avoid. Sadly, the A.I. "writes" with such assertive confidence that some will think this volume is an accurate account of British comics history. Nothing could be further from the truth!
If you want to read more about how bad this book is, hop over to John Freeman's Down the Tubes blog where he's posted about it at this link:
https://downthetubes.net/caveat-emptor-the-great-british-comic-riot/
In short, give the book a big swerve and save your money!
(To be fair to Amazon, they did refund me when I complained about the book. However, they still have it listed for sale. I hope no one else is fooled into buying it. Support REAL writers and REAL well researched books on comics history! Kick A.I. into the bin!)
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