The mini comic booklets..and other collecting fun!

Spotter book of TV Whoopee! 28th January 1978.
Spotter guide booklets were also popular..you ticked it off when you spotted them..
So watching Blue Peter you could then tick off Valerie..don't know the other people..
tick off when you spot a cameraman..


Slow Coach 1973 by Frank Mc Diarmid and Lucky Dick 1976 by Ian Knox
A Whizzer and Chips Merry Memories Booklet which resulted in readers voting for one of these old characters to come back..as a good guess it was Beat your Neighbours.



Cards could be collected and later played into a game..
26th Feb 1983 Buster Xray Specs game


Buster by Reg Parlett 15th December 1984
You could make up a diary booklet..this was a popular theme..Krazy comic did this..

World Wide Werdies drawn this time by Robert Nixon did a Calendar booklet showing the seasons with monsters!

http://petergraycartoonsandcomics.blogspot.com/2009/04/ken-reids-world-wide-weirdies-january_27.html
Love to see the other one..sadly don't have that one..I like how hes blended the Autumn and Winter season into one picture..though shame the booklet was only in two parts..
(Ken did do the Calendar one Month at a time in a Shiver and Shake annual..)


This was a treat you could collect the booklets together to make the first number one Whizzer and Chips! (20th October 1979)
They also did this with Buster number 1 booklet..




Sid Burgon drawing (Whizzer and Chips 10th and 24th October 1981) Joker used the booklet pages to tell a gag a page so you didn't have to wait until next week to find oput what happens next..









Paul Ailey Whoopee! 14th October 1978

These mini comics appeared at times in IPC comics and a few times in DC Thomson. Sometimes you had to buy four comics then cut out and put in order making a bigger mini comic.
These can be puzzle books, joke books..
http://www.bustercomic.co.uk/pullouts.html

Also they did comic samplers booklets to give you a flavour of other comics you may not have bought..e.g Mickey Mouse Weekly, Whoopee, Cheeky..so another good idea..

http://www.enterthestory.com/badtime_bedtime_books.html
Leo Baxendale of course did the great Badtime Bedtime booklets in Monster fun see link for examples and info..

Jack Edward Oliver did an amazing choose your own adventure type Cliff hanger booklet..it time traveled Cliff to different eras it was very clever work..you had two options to choose from taking you to a different page in the booklet..

http://www.oocities.com/pjgcomics/index.htm
Off Topic...its so good to see my geocities back online thanks oocities..
See on the page for all my other websites on top comic artists..it made me very happy to see this!

I know there was an Ivy the Terrible booklet in The Beano by Robert Nixon But DC Thomson didn't seem to do many of these...unless you know better..
Maybe the new Dandy could bring back comic booklets...mind you I wouldn't want to cut my comic up..:)

Joker from Whizzer and Chips appeared in Daily Star newspaper..

Whizzer and Chips 10th October 1981

Joker was a very popular character and even later appeared on the cover of Whizzer and Chips and was often voted number 1 in polls. I thought it was great!

Does anyone have a scan of Daily Star newspaper to see Joker..were they new for the paper..reprints from Whizzer and Chips?

http://petergraysukcomicartists.blogspot.com/search/label/Sid%20Burgon

Whoopee!! its Easter!!

Jack Clayton


Terry Bave


Nick Baker


Mike Lacey


Jim Petrie



Robert Nixon


Terry Bave


Frank Mc Diarmid


Joe McCaffrey


Sid Burgon


Robert Nixon

Inspired by Lews blog on his Easter comic cover theme I'd thought I would just focus on one issue. Whoopee and Cheeky 1981.
This is how comics celebrated Easter and its great...whether its egg rolling, winning huge Easter eggs, Easter parades, Easter Fairs, Easter egg hunt,Going to the seaside and visiting Aunties recieving Easter presents. Also Easter bonnets are featured in the Cheeky story and of course the Baker boy is carrying hot cross buns!!
As you can see Easter can cover many topics..

Changed wording to my own thoughts-
The Beano and Dandy today should celebrate Easter more in there comics....
To give The Beano a little credit at least the Dennis story was on the topic of April Fools day..

http://lewstringer.blogspot.com/2010/04/easter-comics-of-past.html


In the issue was a toothpaste advert!!!...after all that chocolate me thinks...:)

Remember to place your order at the Newsagent..

Soem nice imagnative drawn adverts..

Todays kids don't walk to the newsagent to buy a comic..its often bought by a parent at a supermarket...comics had more power when it was your choice, your pocket money and that you bought it..

I had a regular order for Big comic in the 80's at the newsagent..
I also remember the excitement of the walk to the newsagent...I often walked quickly!! Especially on Beano day:)

Lew Stringer drawing for Whoopee!! and Jackpot annual!

From Jackpot annual 1986....see Lews' signature in the first panel..a ghost artist with a name...normally drawn by Tom Paterson.

Hi Peter,

Regarding the Scooper strip. Although I'd been freelancing for Marvel UK since 1983, the Jackpot Annual job was my first published strip for IPC. I'd already drawn the first Tom Thug strip for IPC but that remained unpublished at that time while the company made their minds up about the comic. So Bob Paynter, Group Editor of the IPC humour comics, kindly offered me the Jackpot Annual four pager.

I was asked to ghost Tom Paterson's style, but I was allowed to sign my name to the strip. I was quite anxious drawing it, - my first strip for the mighty IPC, and in an annual too, but very pleased with how it turned out. It's not perfect by any means, and I'm sure I'd draw it differently today, but it was fun to do. I can't remember who wrote the script but Bob Paynter had subbed it and changed some bits before I received it.

The following year I did a six page Bookworm strip for the Whoopee Annual, which I both scripted and drew. This time I was asked to ghost Syd Burgon slightly but give it my own touch. That was a fun one too, as I had Bookworm go to an alien planet.

Lew

From Whoopee!! annual 1987. It was normal practice for other artist to draw other peoples strip. It was a good platform for new comic artists to be tried out.












Lew Stringer who signs this work in a special annual Sci-fi story...very different to a normal Bookworm down to earth story. Its great fun seeing the aliens and monsters drawn in a fun way.

Bookworm normally drawn by the ace Sid Burgon..


Scooper by Tom Paterson

Well worth getting IPC humour annuals there was some nice longer stories in them and different artists experimenting with other characters...