Good gracious me it's almost Christmas - and another year has gone flying by. It is time to wish all of you a happy, restful and peaceful Christmas and wishing you all the best for 2012 - from Romero, Modesty, Axa and I.

8 December 2011

Some time ago I wrote here about the book released in Italy that reprinted all the Hugo Pratt Fleetway war stories: Hugo Pratt - WWII: Storie di Guerra.

Well here is another book that you might like to add to your shelf: Massimo Carnevale recently released by Icon in Italy. It covers (no pun intended) lots of Carnevale's work for LancioStory, Skorpio, Eura comics, il dono di Eric, Dago, Martin Hel, Detective Dante and John Doe, Garrett etc, and goes right up to his US work for Y: the last man and Northlander. Wonderful book, profusely illustrated.

26 September 2011

It's funny how life turns out isn't? I had thought that I had just about covered every country that had ever published Dan Dare when I discover from a Turkish collegue that he was also published there. Read more...

I bought a block of "space" stamps several years ago only to discover that they were made in the U.S. and featured Dan Dare. It has taken several years to discover more about this. Read more...

David Pugh's Dan Dare (and other)
Artwork for Sale

Many of you will recall with affection the work of David Pugh which appeared in the new Eagle (Dan Dare), Wildcat (Loner) and 2000 AD (Slaine), not to mention MASK and Teknophage during the late-80's and early 90's.

Well David has been in touch to let me know that many of his original pieces are currently up for sale - all proceeds to go to his favourite charity - Bus Fare charity. Now it's great to work in London or Paris and "have a favourite charity" - but David is putting his money where his mouth is - he writes:

I'm living in Rishikesh, India right now and have a little more free time to promote the Bus Fare charity, in between teaching computer graphics and help my friend promote his street children project. Thanks for the link, I'll get on to it today, providing the power holds out. There's a big two week Shiva festival here and the thousands more visitors are straining the resources.

You can see David's artwork for sale on Facebook .

18 July 2011

I need help! I recently bought a nice lot of Fleetway artwork from a dealer. This included some superb covers by Eyles and Scott from the 1950's Comet comic and more covers from the 1960's pocket title Front Line by Jordi Penalva who is fast becoming one of my all time favourite artists. Hidden away amongst this lot was a cover attributed to Guido Caroselli (is that really Nino Caroselli?) - see image above. The back is marked "The Outlaw" and is otherwise unmarked. Can anyone shed any light on what comic title (or perhaps pulp) this was used on?

Also coming soon - Dan Dare in Turkey - yes our intrepid hero was also published here. A new page is under preparation.

Don't forget to keep checking back on the Boardman index - new covers are being added all the time.

New covers have also been added to the Fleetway Comic Gallery courtesy of our old friend Richard Sheaf - thanks again Richard.

12 July 2011

From time to time over the years that DANDARE.INFO has been up and running I have received requests for information from various authors with book projects they are working on. The subjects have ranged from Dan Dare to British 1950's Space Age Architecture: and I have courtesy copies from grateful authors to prove it.

I am really excited to announce that a new book is in preparation on Denis McLoughlin, by no less a team than David Ashford (The Thriller Libraries and a host of others) and Peter Richardson (Wulf the Briton - and if you have not got a copy of this magnificiant book go straight to Book Palace Books and order a copy: it's expensive BUT WORTH it).

I am currently scanning my collection of T.V. Boardman material and letting Peter decide what he wants to use. If any one has original Denis McLoughlin artwork PLEASE send me a photo or scan (300 dpi) and I will send it on for possible publication. We are particularly looking for original crime novel artwork - but anything at all is welcome.

19 June 2011

I am FINALLY happy to announce that the menus on this site can be viewed and used by ALL browsers. So whether you are using Internet Explorer, Apple Macs, Mozilla, Opera or a host of other browsers the sliding menus will be visible.

Simple fix - just took a long time to do.

18 April 2011

I have made several updates to this site over the last few weeks. As I have decided not to go up and down to the farm each weekend I suddenly have time on my hands!

So first off there is a new page for Dan Dare in Argentina: YES Dan was published there in the comic El Mundo de la Aventure.

Secondly I am pleased to announce that the Boardman pages are more or less up to date. Various missing book titles have been found thanks to Tom Lesser and Richard Williams who between them issued a guide to the Boardman crime books back in the 1990s. There is still some confusion in my mind concerning the Bloodhound numbering prior to Nr. 40, but I am sure this will be resolved. Now I need help with images to complete these pages - all scans will be gratefully received.

I have also added some additional pages on the Buffalo Bill Annuals as well as the Adventure Annuals, and next time I visit the farm I will scan the rotogravure comic series - so look out for a new page coming up!

13 February 2011

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