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Post by Nigel on Mar 13, 2012 18:36:31 GMT
I forgot I had an anecdote to share. As you might know, a couple of weeks ago, I was selling at the Cardiff International Comics and Animation Expo, which was a full weekend event. Quite late on the Sunday afternoon, someone picked up a tatty early Transformers annual from my stall: a few missing pages, written in, pictures coloured with felt tips. He bought it anyway. "It's missing pages but it only a pound. I only want it because it's got John Higgins art and he's sitting over there." I know the name, but he's not an artist whose work I'm familiar with and as he only did a few pieces for Transformers, he's not someone I'd recognised for it when I saw the guest list. Which is a pity, as his few covers are actually quite striking and recognisable (see tfwiki.net/wiki/Category:Images_by_John_Higgins ) and I could have had something signed. Annoyingly, I had a couple of hundred comics with me to search through including at least two of his but of course I didn't know what to look for. Also annoyingly, I now see from his Wikipedia entry that he did a few issues of Death's Head and I had a full set of those for sale! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Higgins_%28comics%29Oh well, maybe next year....
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Mar 13, 2012 18:41:00 GMT
He is a fantastic artist. Seek out the 1985 2000ad annual for Red Planet Blues. The ABC Warriors story written by Alan Moore that Steve Dillon and he collaborated on. Many a good Dredd tale from him as well.
Andy
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 13, 2012 20:09:27 GMT
He did one of the nicest pieces of SW comic art I've ever seen and I can't find a copy of it on the net anywhere
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Post by Nigel on May 11, 2012 16:38:42 GMT
As John Higgins will be at Bristol Expo this weekend, I thought I'd find a comic for him to sign. Looking at his website, I discovered that he also did a couple of covers for the Corgi adventure books, Island of Fear and Highway Clash! www.turmoilcolour.com/bibmain.htm
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Post by primenova on May 11, 2012 21:21:50 GMT
John Higgins is one artist I alsways think of when looking at the 85/86 comics. With cover work.
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Post by Andy Turnbull on May 11, 2012 22:11:15 GMT
As John Higgins will be at Bristol Expo this weekend, I thought I'd find a comic for him to sign. Looking at his website, I discovered that he also did a couple of covers for the Corgi adventure books, Island of Fear and Highway Clash! www.turmoilcolour.com/bibmain.htmIt wasn't the covers he did, but the interior illustrations. Andy
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Post by Nigel on May 14, 2012 7:41:25 GMT
Ah yes, so he did. The books themselves only have a writer and illustrator credit; I dug them out to have signed, but then decided it was a shame to have them written on after all this time. I took a copy of issue 67 ( tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:MarvelUK-067.jpg ). He was pleased to sign it and indeed to see it; fortunately, he's not one of those artists that doesn't like to be reminded of their early work. It was the first Transformers piece he'd been asked to sign this weekend. He was telling me that his Transformers work contributed to him being asked to do Watchmen.
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Post by primenova on May 14, 2012 9:28:40 GMT
It good when the artist tell you about how they painted the cover. You want to go sit down with a few cover for Lee Sullivan to sign [mainly #92,94,111] to hear interesting stuff. You should have taken #79 or the inside cover annual #2 1986.
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Post by Nigel on May 14, 2012 9:47:32 GMT
I prefer 67 to 79. I'd have liked to have taken #50 as Dinobot Hunt was my first story but didn't have an easily-accessible copy.
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Post by primenova on May 14, 2012 11:29:04 GMT
I picked #79 due to the spray paint, if John did it the same way as Lee for #111? [that would be interesting] remember using them sprayers at school & someone sucks instead of blow & gets a mouth full of paint or blow too hard & gets they back covered for the next 4yrs. Lee had to also deal with his cat sitting on his work.
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