Category: From the collections

Small-press and comics-related items from Ed’s personal collections of flyers, greetings cards, sketches, articles, xeroxes, and printed ephemera.

Flyer for Carol Swain book

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Invasion of the Mind Sappers was published by Fantagraphics Books in 1996, and was I think Carol Swain’s first book for them. I reviewed it for the Comics Journal. This is evidently a promotional flyer produced by a PR agency in London, judging by the old phone number.

Dilworth Does Drake

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The UK cartoonist Ben Dilworth sent me the artwork for these two pages in 1985. I see from the letter he was living in Clacton, Essex at the time, although I seem to recall he was associated with small press artists in Bristol. As it happens, Ben’s story is his continuation of the ‘Unnatural Disasters’…

The End of Dead Duck

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Here are two drawings by me of the Savage Pencil character, Dead Duck, dated 1995. I collaborated with Savage Pencil on two serial stories published by the English comics magazine, Deadline, under the editorship of Frank Wynne at the time. I did the writing on the stories, and later on provided Sav X with rough…