tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15402262026114914432024-03-26T16:56:09.942-07:00COMIC ZONE -GOOD READS!Terry Hooper-Scharfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09640253872553303307noreply@blogger.comBlogger26125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1540226202611491443.post-26160329936607065822024-03-26T16:55:00.000-07:002024-03-26T16:55:10.734-07:00Stats 26 03 2024<p> <span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-family: Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; text-wrap: nowrap;">Hong Kong </span><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-family: Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; text-align: right;">81</span></p><div class="thCsjf SntFy" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; align-items: center; background-color: white; border-top: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.12); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); display: flex; flex-direction: row; font-family: Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin-left: 24px; margin-right: 24px;"><span class="O0B3t" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: #f0c419; border-radius: 12px; height: 24px; margin-right: 24px; min-width: 24px;"></span><div class="zB2Qxb" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; display: flex; flex-direction: row; flex: 1 1 auto; justify-content: space-between; line-height: 48px; min-width: 0px;"><div class="F8KQq tiuJod" jsname="cHZFSd" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; max-width: 70%; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; text-wrap: nowrap;">Sweden</div><div class="PBgGb" jsname="Plp4fb" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; min-width: 60px; text-align: right;">2</div></div></div><div class="thCsjf SntFy" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; align-items: center; background-color: white; border-top: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.12); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); display: flex; flex-direction: row; font-family: Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin-left: 24px; margin-right: 24px;"><span class="O0B3t" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: #255c61; border-radius: 12px; height: 24px; margin-right: 24px; min-width: 24px;"></span><div class="zB2Qxb" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; display: flex; flex-direction: row; flex: 1 1 auto; justify-content: space-between; line-height: 48px; min-width: 0px;"><div class="F8KQq tiuJod" jsname="cHZFSd" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; max-width: 70%; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; text-wrap: nowrap;">Switzerland</div><div class="PBgGb" jsname="Plp4fb" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; min-width: 60px; text-align: right;">1</div></div></div>Terry Hooper-Scharfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09640253872553303307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1540226202611491443.post-56765293468246004222019-06-25T17:23:00.001-07:002019-06-25T17:23:40.728-07:00Workshop: The Making of KANG<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/wa1XGzjjG0o" width="480"></iframe>Terry Hooper-Scharfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09640253872553303307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1540226202611491443.post-54740206422446739592019-06-18T10:41:00.005-07:002019-06-18T10:42:13.929-07:00Captain Marvel (2019) #7<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Above: quality controlled OFFICIAL DBZ t-shirt.</span><br /><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Via Instagram and other media I found that there are person(s) who have produced Dragon Ball Z t-shirts. Not great just basic designs but very easily identifiable. This person is going to sell the items at a US comic event so I asked whether the items were official. This is the response:</span><br /><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><div>
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">""No...no they are not. Just trying to pay my rent my dude" </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That was followed by comments from people who really did not give a shit that they were not official and so were supporting copyright and creative theft. One even said he didn't care: he wanted one.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is becoming quite a thing now: won't buy real books and comics but will willingly steal money from the creators by illegally downloading them. That is theft and criminal. It does not matter if DBZ is worth $4 billion or if it is the work of some poor schmuck working in his room/studio and is eating wallpaper for dinner.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is theft. And you support that then you are scum. Thieving scum.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The excuse "Just trying to pay my rent my dude" does not hold any water. Then make up your own original designs and sell them on t-shirts. If you are serious about working in comics then you take the bad with the good -if you cannot then get out and find a job that pays you so you can pay the rent "dude".</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you are at an event then, before you buy that t-shirt, ask "is this official merchandise?"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am betting 99.9% of you will not "because I wanted that T!"</span></div>
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AMAZING SPIDER-MAN (2018) #29 Immortal Variant cover by Mark Bagley</h4>
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FANTASTIC FOUR (2018) #14 Immortal Variant cover by Mike McKone</h4>
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MOON KNIGHT ANNUAL (2019) #1 Immortal Variant cover by Pasqual Ferry</h4>
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VENOM (2018) #18 Immortal Variant cover by Will Sliney</h4>
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Think back, a few decades back, to the seminal story arc "Avengers: Under Siege." Once the siege on Avengers Mansion was over, it would have been nice if <a aria-label="Read more about Earth's Mightiest Heroes" data-click-text="earth's mightiest heroes" data-click-type="link" data-click-url="https://www.marvel.com/teams-and-groups/avengers" data-further-details="earth's mightiest heroes" href="https://www.marvel.com/teams-and-groups/avengers" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: #e62429; transition: color 0.12s ease-in 0s;">Earth's Mightiest Heroes</a> got to kick back and unwind -- but in this new retelling, <a aria-label="Read more about Loki" data-click-text="loki" data-click-type="link" data-click-url="https://www.marvel.com/characters/loki" data-further-details="loki" href="https://www.marvel.com/characters/loki" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: #e62429; transition: color 0.12s ease-in 0s;">Loki</a> is coming back! This September, the God of Mischief returns in AVENGERS: LOKI UNLEASHED! written by <a aria-label="Read more about Roger Stern" data-click-text="roger stern" data-click-type="link" data-click-url="https://www.marvel.com/comics/creators/958/stern_roger" data-further-details="roger stern" href="https://www.marvel.com/comics/creators/958/stern_roger" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: #e62429; transition: color 0.12s ease-in 0s;">Roger Stern</a> with art by <a aria-label="Read more about Ron Lim" data-click-text="ron lim" data-click-type="link" data-click-url="https://www.marvel.com/comics/creators/658/lim_ron" data-further-details="ron lim" href="https://www.marvel.com/comics/creators/658/lim_ron" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: #e62429; transition: color 0.12s ease-in 0s;">Ron Lim</a>. Both creators are legends in the realm of Avengers storytelling, and this time around, they'll be putting our heroes in a pretty dangerous position -- at the mercy of one of their original foes!</div>
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AVENGERS: LOKI UNLEASHED! finds the Avengers back during the time when Stern was the series' writer, following the 1980s siege of Avengers Mansion in <a aria-label="Read more about AVENGERS #270-277" data-click-text="avengers #270-277" data-click-type="link" data-click-url="https://www.marvel.com/comics/issue/7142/avengers_1963_270" data-further-details="avengers #270-277" href="https://www.marvel.com/comics/issue/7142/avengers_1963_270" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: #e62429; transition: color 0.12s ease-in 0s;">AVENGERS #270-277</a>. While the Avengers are battered and beaten following the siege, Loki has found a new source of mystical energy, which can only be even more trouble for our heroes.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Even as the sea blockade by the Union Navy slowly strangles the South, the picket ships begin to mysteriously blow up one after another. Lincoln, worried that the war could stretch on too long if the Rebels are resupplied, orders that the Confederates’ secret weapon be identified. </span><br /><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That means sending spies to Charleston, though, in the heart of the enemy’s territory. And who will be the two unlucky fools the brass entrusts with such a dangerous mission … ?</span><br /><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you don't know which duo then you have never read one of these books! There is the usual slap-stick comedy with Blutch as the 'blindman' pushing a 'crippled' Sarge in a wheel-chair...come on;comedy gold! Blutch has, because of non-stop combat also developed a death-wish...which oddly has its funny side.</span><br /><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These are not history books but you do learn a few things. They are not something that you do not want your kids to read either -quite the opposite!</span><br /><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's adventure and fun all the way. Blutch seems to scream all the way,too!</span></div>
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I have no idea why, unless the people I'm explaining this to have no artistic minds and have never known a fevered mind!</span></span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 23.76px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 23.76px;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 23.76px;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">However, the story I told on the original Maakika Art site in 2008 is factual. These pieces have been called some of the best work I've done -my comic work getting swiftly dismissed! I'm also told, though I never saw it that way myself until I went through all the pieces again, that the pieces seem to form a type of mythology or at least hint at one. 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I get asked that a great deal and to be honest it is a very brief story!</span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 23.76px;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 23.76px;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">In 2006 I had a serious respiratory infection. It came and went but,in 2007,it came back with a vengeance over several months and with complications I thought it would see me shift this mortal coil -and I am NOT joking!</span></span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 23.76px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 23.76px;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 23.76px;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Around May, 2007, it got really bad. Then, suddenly,pouring with sweat, while seated on a bus, my mind started getting a rush of images -maybe 50-60. I got home exhausted but I sat down and began to draw. Honestly, at 50 years of age I had drawn many things but these new images were so out of my usual frame of image reference that I was stumped.</span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 23.76px;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 23.76px;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">I drew a few, sat back and thought "What the bloody hell have I drawn?!" Almost instantly the word "Maakika" [pronounced "Mah-kee-kah"] came into my head. At the same time I got the definition "solid black and white art under guidance from the Maakika". </span></span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 23.76px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 23.76px;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 23.76px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 23.76px;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Ahh, a fevered mind -and no drugs involved!</span></span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 23.76px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 23.76px;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 23.76px;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">I've searched the word on the internet, in books and anywhere else I can but it seems not to exist. I cannot find anything similar.</span></span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 23.76px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 23.76px;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 23.76px;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">And with each came a title or description.</span></span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 23.76px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 23.76px;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 23.76px;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">So,a divine gift from the Maakika pantheon seems credible!</span></span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 23.76px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 23.76px;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 23.76px;">And lucky.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 23.76px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 23.76px;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The original images are all 21x29cms and though I've not parted with the first "inspired" drawings which look crude to my eye, several were sold for between £150-£300 each.</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">I still have the original images in my mind [they won't shift!] but I've been inspired to work on larger images [60x42cms]. </span></span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 23.76px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 23.76px;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">So,if you have any questions or comments get in touch! The best email address to use is:</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="mailto:hoopercomicsuk@yahoo.com" style="color: #bd7000; text-decoration-line: none;">hoopercomicsuk@yahoo.com</a></span></span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 23.76px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 23.76px;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">And remember:only one person does Maakika art -me (and I have absolutely no idea what's coming next!)</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The Maakika Art</span></span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 23.76px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 23.76px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 23.76px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 23.76px;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj96m2W9kYfe-_IgZGIEFAdsNhklCPtqz6Msp2UIHfaRYceXz7YEM02DM_ghQ5hsQ14umCjZGs_TCjwUlnbUu4Xnywlv0hreU6FCEii-8YVhu4KLlkd4RNZMV_aRx3acPxSAZ703NZiDyI/s640/makika+band+001+long.jpg" /></span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 23.76px;" /><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: white; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;">
<b>Maakika Band -The Makinii</b></div>
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<b>The Maakika hatchlings played under the watchful Mother Tree Timipu</b></div>
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<b>Kathassi knew the time was coming</b></div>
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<b>Tinikia knew that the egg was special</b></div>
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<b>The Divine Beholder</b></div>
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<b>Falaasoo</b> <b>the Radical</b></div>
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<b>Idembo</b> <b>The World Shaker was angry</b></div>
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<b>Mabwaanaa</b> <b>shouldered the burden</b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ships in 3–5 business days <a href="http://www.lulu.com/shop/terry-hooper-scharf/silvermaigneknight-ghoul-hunter/paperback/product-21843686.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;">http://www.lulu.com/shop/terry-hooper-scharf/silvermaigneknight-ghoul-hunter/paperback/product-21843686.html</a></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Silvermaigne line is said to go back to the time of the Ancient Britons. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Silvermaignes ancestors were part of a druidic clan based in the great forest that is today known as Leigh Woods, overlooking the River Severn entering (today) Bristol. All the members of the tribe had white hair from birth and they were known as the mwng arian (Silver Manes). Even the druids bowed to their knowledge of demons, spirits and things of the darkness. </span></div>
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Terry Hooper has been writing, drawing, and self-publishing comic books in England for several decades, now. He has been extremely prolific, creating his own characters, and putting them out himself, a one-man show. Some of his self-published comics titles have run over 50 or 60 separate issues, with no end in site. Also, Mr. Hooper has published some very popular titles which have interviewed, and which continue to interview, British comic book artists and writers from older as well as newer, and quite well-known British comics titles. He also chronicles the obscure and forgotten past of Britain’s rich and diverse comic book publishing history over numerous decades, right back to the earliest of them. Lest we forget.</div>
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<br /><br />Terry has, for decades, worked very hard at ‘filling in the blanks’, documenting the rich, lavish history of British comic books, in numerous interviews and articles in his various publications. Additionally, he has written some quite interesting American comic book publications. He’s very talented in quite a number of areas, as you will see as you read on, right here! Shall we get started?<br />***********************************************************************<br /><br /><b>Phil Latter</b>: Terry, I’d like to start by asking, where were you born, where did you go to school, what was it like growing up, what were your interests at that time, (comics, TV, movies, etc), how old were you when you first discovered comics, and what made you notice them and get some?<br /><br /><br /><b>Hooper</b>: Phil, I was born in the Saint Michael’s Maternity Hospital, Bristol, on the 6th of June, 1957. My mother said I looked like an orange with a black tuft of hair! I grew up in the St Werburgh’s area of Bristol which had a park. I went to school at the St Werburghs Infant School then to Mina Road Junior school before moving and attending Greenway Secondary Modern Boys School, in Southmead,from 1968-1974.<br />I took Science, Biology, Mathematics, and I got A grades in Art, History, English Language, English Literature and Geography. While at the Greenway School, I created the school-sanctioned magazine<b>Starkers: The Magazine That Tells The Naked Truth</b>, in 1972, and which was supposed to be distributed and sold at other schools but it was banned because of the title. I wouldn’t compromise so “ta-ta”.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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above: Earliest photo of me so around 1957 sat on my mother's knee and my gran holding on to my older brother, Peter.<br /><br />Like most kids of my generation, I began reading comics at the age of 5 years. Comics that I enjoyed ranged from <b>Bimbo, Beezer, Topper, Lion</b> and so many others. When my family moved to Germany, my reading, naturally, had to change and I began reading comics from companies such as Carlsen, Disney and Germany’s biggest publisher of European comics, Bastei.<br /><br /><br />Obviously, reading comics led to my trying to draw them, and this in turn led to helping other pupils years later in after-school classes to learn to draw. <b>Starkers</b>, of course, came later.<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://hoopercomics.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/billythecat1.jpg" style="text-decoration: none;"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-137" height="600" src="http://hoopercomics.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/billythecat1.jpg?w=305&h=600" style="border: none; position: relative;" title="billythecat1" width="305" /></a><br />above:Billy The Cat -one of Hooper’s favourite comic strips.<br /><br /><br /><b>Latter</b>: Like <b>The Man In The Yellow Hat’s Curious George</b>, I’d additionally like to know: what was the first comic book you recall getting or reading? I want to make you feel comfortable during the interview with endless questions, so that you’ll feel right at home at ‘The Spanish Inquisition.’ Which reminds me: can I call you ‘Monty’? We’ll make it a regular flying circus.<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://hoopercomics.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/whizz.gif" style="text-decoration: none;"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-141" height="185" src="http://hoopercomics.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/whizz.gif?w=490&h=185" style="border: none; position: relative;" title="whizz" width="490" /></a><br />another Hooper favourite -Billy The Whizz!<br /><br />When did your family move to Germany, and what part of Germany did your family move to? You are originally from Bristol, England -why did your family move to Germany? Was it for your parents’ work-related reasons? I believe that in the past you have described yourself as being part German? Was your mom or dad German to begin with? Also, when did you return to England as a family, and why?<br /><br /><br /><b>Hooper</b>: My mother met my father while he was doing his national service in Germany. There were a lot of us German-British kids at junior school in the 1960s! My mother’s family originally came from Jauer, German Poland before WW II – some of her uncles died fighting the Nazis, another was shot as a conscientious objector by the Nazis. And one of my relatives who joined the Army vanished in North Africa! You can’t win! When the Russians got closer, the civilians fled and there was a lot of strafing of civilians by British fighters; a one-year old cousin of my mother’s was killed and had to be left at the roadside. They then settled in Dalborn, which is a village near the garrison town of Detmold -back to where she met my father….and where I nearly died. Simple as that.<br /><br />I have Welsh, English and German blood in these here veins!<br /><br /><br />Growing up in the 1960s in England, and playing in that park, which I mentioned earlier, in St. Werburgh’s, there were still plenty of bomb sites from where the German planes had bombed in World War Two, right where we played. We wandered about and knew Bristol’s alleys and back streets as well as rivers well before we reached the age of ten!<br /><br /><br />Metropol Cinema was the main place to go where we went to watch The movie <b>The Ten Commandments, Robinson Crusoe Of Mars</b>, in addition to television’s <b>Batman</b> and <b>The Man From U.N.C.L.E.</b> series. For TV, well, we had those U.N.C.L.E. guys – <b>The Man From U.N.C.L.E, </b>and later<b>The Girl From U.N.C.L.E. </b>, starring Stephanie Powers; <b>To Catch A Thief, Robin Hood, Ivanhoe, The Saint, Dr Who, Adam Adamant</b> and later <b>Doom Watch, Rat Catchers, Tarot, Tomorrow People</b> and so on.<br /><br />Oh, the Boris Karloff horror TV series – there was one with a scarecrow that scared the bejabers out of me!<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://hoopercomics.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/terrypeter.jpg" style="color: #9f4b00; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-139" height="316" src="http://hoopercomics.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/terrypeter.jpg?w=300&h=237" style="border: none; position: relative;" title="terry&peter" width="400" /></a><br />circa 1967/68 in Sevier Street. Terry,his brother Peter and Lassie the Dog!<br /><br /><br /><b>Latter</b>: Boris Karloff? I take it, then, you’re not referring to <b>Walt Disney’s The Scarecrow Of Romney Marsh</b>, which starred The Prisoner’s Patrick McGoohan.<br /><br />As for <b>Robinson Crusoe On Mars</b>: I haven’t seen it, but I have heard about it. Wasn’t that a Dick Van Dyke comedy?<br /><br /><b>Hooper</b>: No. This was a modern horror tale. <b>Robinson Crusoe on Mars</b> did not star the great Dick Van Dyke, but rather, Batman’s Adam West….a big eared chimp as well as aquatic…sausages! Great fun!<br /><b>Latter</b>: What a title: ‘<b>Robinson Crusoe On Mars</b>.’ It sounds absolutely insane. Like you said, great fun! The title, ‘<b>Robinson Crusoe On Mars</b>‘, reminds me of another old movie I’d give my left arm to see:<b>Santa Claus Versus The Martians</b>. It sounds like it’d be a real hoot! Or <b>Billy The Kid Versus Dracula. Billy The Kid versus Dracula</b>, that one I saw as a kid, but I barely remember it. I understand there were two versions with different titles. I’ve never seen the other version.<br /><br /><br />By the way, I just checked on the internet. Dick Van Dyke was in a 1966 Disney movie called Lt. Robinson Crusoe USN. That was the one I was thinking about…<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://hoopercomics.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/robinson_crusoe_on_mars.jpg" style="text-decoration: none;"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-140" src="http://hoopercomics.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/robinson_crusoe_on_mars.jpg?w=450&h=684" style="border: none; position: relative;" title="robinson_crusoe_on_mars" /></a><br />Yes,it did exist! Adam West,pointy eared chimp and aquatic sausages!<br /><br /><b>Hooper</b>: Of course, as I got older, I watched late night Saturday horror double-bills.<br /><br />I was an insomniac and a manic depressive by age eleven. I lived with my grandparents and my grand dad, Bill, who used to buy me British comics such as <b>Robin, Bimbo, Play Time</b> and later a mixture of Fleetway and D.C. Thomson titles. Of course, playing with modeling clay (Plastacine) and soldiers was an additional past-time.<br /><br /><img alt="Johnny Seven O.M.A. - History's Best Toys: All-TIME 100 Greatest ..." height="260" src="http://img.timeinc.net/time/photoessays/2011/100toys_1_50/johnny_seven_49.jpg" width="400" /><br />oh if only I still had my Johnny Seven OMA (One Man Army)!!!<br /><br /><b>Latter</b>: for me, aside from lots of comic books, it was the Marx’ toy company’s Johnny West and General George Armstrong Custer dolls (real men knew who they were back then and didn’t feel the need to over-compensate by calling them ‘action figures’.) Smile. I also had the fuzzy-bearded later 1970′s versions of G.I.Joe (the mod versions as I called them) and the like. Speaking of which, what was with that useless left hand on all of those vintage G.I. Joe dolls, where this so-called crack soldier couldn’t even hold a gun, with the fingers of his hand turned (molded) in? I never did figure out which brand of turpentine the Hasbro Toy Company people were drinking when they came up with that brilliant idea! EG: “I’m a soldier. I can’t hold a rifle (that takes two hands), but I’m gonna butt you to death with my head. That’s what the helmet is for.”<br /><br /><br /><b>Hooper</b>: There was a short-lived British made Action Man called Tommy Gunn -I got him and the first black version. The colour thing never bothered me because of where I grew up.<br /><br /><img src="http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y79/GUYx1/tommygunnmib.jpg" /><br />Tommy Gunn -COME BAAAAAACK!!!<br /><br /><br /><b>Latter</b>: I grew up with black people, too. People were, and are, people, of course.<br /><br /><br />You just reminded me of something, Terry. I was out with a black girlfriend of mine about eight years ago in a pub, locally. We were talking about the accomplishments of blacks in history. She broached the topic with me. A Caucasian white 17 or 18 year old girl with lots of earrings through her face leaned over, butting into our conversation, and said, “You know, saying ‘blacks’ these days is blatantly racist. You should say ‘African Canadians’ instead. I know you mean well, but….”<br /><br /><br /><b>Latter</b>: So then my black lady friend Shalese, who I was with at the time, said, “Oh really?” to this blonde young girl. “How long have you been black?” Shalese then went on a tirade about whites who seek their best to butt into others’ conversations with their political correctness “fascist nonsense.” You know. Trying to ‘police’ the way people talk and express themselves. So much for a free society and freedom of speech and expression. Which struck me as extremely funny to me at the time. The narrow-mindedness of it all. Eighteen year old girls (and guys) who are brainwashed at an early age by this stuff, thinking they are open-minded and progressive by telling other people who are older and thus wiser, people who are in their thirties and forties…..how to talk ‘properly’ in ‘polite society.’ This is how we are raising our children these days. Eighteen year olds who probably still live at home, they haven’t really ‘lived’ yet, but they nonetheless think they have the answers to everything, and that they are more worldly and intelligent and open-minded than the rest of us who are more than twice their age, with more than twice their life’s experiences. </div>
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My former Chinese roommate Dave Wong, who is also a comics collector, was a lot like Shalese, too. Speaking out against PC restrictions put on the way people express themselves. Dave Wong kept me laughing. He’s a hilarious guy. I think his ideas rubbed off on Chalese somewhat, as we would all hang out when she came over. Despite the fact that he is somewhat of an introvert. I was actually content, what I describe above. They both like to make speeches, and I must say, I’m with them in their points of view. You can call me a Liberal. Freedom of speech is a pet peeve of mine.<br /><br /><br />Terry, where did you go to school, what kind of work did you do, how did you get started drawing, and what did you draw? And, how old were you then?<br /><br /><br /><b>Hooper</b>: Initially, Mina Road Junior school, that was up to 11 years of age. I then had to move with my parents to another part of Bristol and ended up in the Greenway Secondary Modern Boy School until age 15. I drew all the time as a kid but my parents threw most of those illustrations out.<br /><br /><br /><b>Latter</b>: Gee, that’s encouraging….It didn’t stop you, though. You kept going and going and going. The Everready battery company is going to sue. Help! Here comes that big pink bunny rabbit with those drums. Run for your life!<br /><br /><br /><b>Hooper</b>: On leaving education in 1974, I went to work for H. Tanner & Son, a small printing firm based in Southmead. When I moved to Manston, Kent, in 1977, I began working as a paste-up assistant to Philips Printers. This involved designing and then laying out and pasting up newsletters, commercial flyers, and so on. From 1980-1984, I worked for Bennings Printers and Stationers, Keynsham, where I put together publications as well as advertising material until the company ceased trading in 1984.<br /><br /><br /><b>Latter</b>: You mean they went out of business?<br /><br /><br /><b>Hooper</b>: Yes. During 1977, I also began writing articles on astronomy, meteorological phenomenon, space exploration and other general subjects — something I have continued up until this date in the UK and Europe as well as in the United States. In the UK, the main market has been the County Magazine trade.<br /><br /><br /><b>Latter</b>: This is very interesting. As I said, you’re full of surprises. Not that it matters, of course, but, was this paying work?<br /><br /><br /><b>Hooper</b>: Sometimes yes, sometimes no. I read and investigated everything; my German family called me “The Professor” because of this.<br /><br /><br /><b>Latter</b>: I know you’ve been drawing consistently, from a very early age. What types of paper materials did you use early on, to draw on, and with what sort of pens?<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://hoopercomics.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/materry2-2.jpg" style="color: #9f4b00; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-142" height="272" src="http://hoopercomics.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/materry2-2.jpg?w=300&h=204" style="border: none; position: relative;" title="ma&terry2 (2)" width="400" /></a><br />circa 1965[?] Sevier street again and ice cream eating Terry and his gran,Rose. that's "Ma" who supplied me with the books to draw in!<br /><br /><b>Hooper</b>: My grandmother, Rose, got blank paged receipt books, etc, from work and I drew strips which combined British and American comic heroes together. Making the heroes out of modeling clay was fun, too!<br /><br /><br /><b>Latter</b>: Heh, heh. That’s interesting. I did stuff like that as a kid, also. I didn’t make action figures out of plasticine, but I did take those 1980′s Super Powers DC Comics action figures, having bought lots of duplicates, and I then made some duplicates of ones I already owned, into lots of OTHER characters, including all of the Silver Age Charlton comics’ Charlton super heroes, the JSA, and so on. I still have them all. Unfortunately, I ‘outgrew’ that hobby of transforming them into other characters, eventually. I was quite good at it. I’m delighted to know you didn’t stop modeling your own versions of characters with your hands. What were some of these team ups you drew as a kid which you described above, in particular? Meaning, what characters were in them?<br /><br /><br /><b>Hooper</b>: <b>Captain America, Batman, Superman, Green Arrow, Thor, Goliath (Marvel), Iron Man, Hulk,</b> and British characters <b>Billy the Cat, Captain Hurricane, Billy The Whizz,</b> and so on. Fun for me! The (Marvel comics) original Captain Marvel in the mid to late 1960′s was another favourite, in his old white and green cossie.<br /><br /><br /><b>Latter</b>: I remember that, as a young teenager, I drew a handmade comic book, wherein, I had the Marvel Kree <b>Captain Marvel</b>, in his red and blue outfit, meet the Silver Age 1960’s M.F. Enterprises’ alien robot<b>Captain Marvel</b>, who he found in a cave in suspended animation (like <b>Captain America</b>), only in the desert, sort of like the Silver Age <b>Hulk’s</b> old cave hideout. The Marvel Comics’ <b>Captain Marvel</b> then revived this alien robot. Of course, the M.F. Enterprises’ <b>Captain Marvel</b>, once awake, assumed this Kree Johnny-Come-Lately was trying to cop his best gig, so there was this multi-page obligatory fight scene. Hey, how original is that? I tell you, an instant classic! I wish I still had it. I’d bust a gut laughing, now!<br /><br /><br />How old were you when you started drawing your early comics, and what year was this? What comics, characters and/-or artists were your inspirations? EG: British, American, foreign? Was it hard to get American comics? What were your favourite British comics?<br /><br /><br /><b>Hooper</b>: How old was I? Perhaps eight? Yeah….1965? It was perhaps hard to get American comics. I never knew they existed, then. We had British comics that reprinted, in black and white, Marvel strips in parts. Fantastic and Terrific were my favourite British comics titles. There was a truly unique look and feel to these comics….and the smell of newsprint of those British comics in the 1980s… I learned that most kids sniffed the ink print. It brings back great memories. Artists were mainly anonymous; not signed.<br /><br /><br /><img alt="[sp_fantastic.jpg]" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiATUyrxo-Sy7QglfdCUK5QmPwd3bLDEGtEZZiFlkergKTZN1vQyb-mkVIMeMyM-EsvUyMwS9_Fp0tju-ATEH37tu4XIcF7bdc6N0Foa2zvv9on_3Q9i_WInXiTbwrJWIfTqbR7MXYy2-Q/s1600/sp_fantastic.jpg" /><br /><br /><br /><b>Latter</b>: I know exactly what you mean about the musty smell of old comics, old paper. It’s true: particular odours from vintage periodicals can indeed bring back warm memories. It’s like, in your mind, it takes you back to an earlier time. Oh wait, I just said that. LOL.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAeTsytu7AY5sGcGRlmcTDqZAHJudGZ9iSo7ox1pe3pHDe8e1SV8GfXQuOCHeIf8pn4gad8-TApjuEBzWaymE_OMLpPHiNBTm-T9RHjcZsYaQ5olf00zV2sAhIopP0stHB4qKkwtzrkb8/s1600/$_57.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAeTsytu7AY5sGcGRlmcTDqZAHJudGZ9iSo7ox1pe3pHDe8e1SV8GfXQuOCHeIf8pn4gad8-TApjuEBzWaymE_OMLpPHiNBTm-T9RHjcZsYaQ5olf00zV2sAhIopP0stHB4qKkwtzrkb8/s1600/$_57.JPG" style="border: none; position: relative;" width="480" /></a><br /><br />above: I have Marvel's The Essential Sub-Mariner now but the story split up into weekly parts had me gripped!<br /><br /><br /><b>Hooper</b>: Between 1984-1994, I worked as a writer/artist/editor/agent in comics as well as comics journalism for MU Press, Blue Comet Press, Fantagraphic Books, Eros Comics, (both of which are American), Dorne, Fleetway, IPC and others in the United States, UK and Europe.<br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://hoopercomics.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/westminster-c-1986-001-2.jpg" style="text-decoration: none;"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-73" height="417" src="http://hoopercomics.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/westminster-c-1986-001-2.jpg?w=885&h=577" style="border: none; position: relative;" title="westminster c 1986 001 (2)" width="640" /></a><br />Above:circa 1987[?] Westminster Comic Mart. Brother Mike,to rear Darron Northall,the Kirk Douglas of comics John Erasmus,Terry and Tom Elmes.<br /><br />During this period I also produced large numbers of single panel gag cartoons for agencies in Germany such as Boiselle-Lohmann and Baaske Agency — these going to magazines and publications around Europe.</div>
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<br />And then, of course, Phil, from 1984-2004, I was also self-publishing comics as well as publications on a wide variety of subjects under my own (British) Black Tower Comics Group banner. Additionally, I have produced packages of work for India, Hong Kong and China. I’ve also been working as an industry advisor for smaller companies in countries such as India and Canada.<br /><br /><br /><b>Latter</b>: If you don’t mind, my being a Canadian myself, I’d like to enquire, in detail, more about this advising: what it entailed, and what companies were involved. Including, of course, the companies for which you advised in Canada.<br /><br /><br /><b>Hooper</b>: Basically, I’d be contacted by companies or people who wanted to publish comics or who were already doing so. I can’t tell you names of companies because that’s confidentiaI as part of the deal. Better recent examples are from India and China where, if they can get their act together, they will be the next big thing after Japanese manga. A couple of companies from each country (unbeknownst to one another and I was staying quiet because a lot of businesses are very secretive about new projects and if they know you don’t gossip or blab..more work!), asked me what the potential market was, how could titles be developed to fit that market, a whole bunch of questions and I drew up a document for each which I’m told they are happy with. Curiously, I’m still waiting for the mention of money!<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUr3FiAIhxaI8y1nToZScxNNzfOQZ9XJa1GzeKTE_bOuHMg0dToZTKrAXyvzZsPfKW-AK0pHaVp3iVjbNp70jcTYTa8tAX-ZEl76T9tS53QQwqMq8i-0Pt735WCC62c1f4hT6Cl2s9YNg/s1600/dg1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUr3FiAIhxaI8y1nToZScxNNzfOQZ9XJa1GzeKTE_bOuHMg0dToZTKrAXyvzZsPfKW-AK0pHaVp3iVjbNp70jcTYTa8tAX-ZEl76T9tS53QQwqMq8i-0Pt735WCC62c1f4hT6Cl2s9YNg/s640/dg1.jpg" style="border: none; position: relative;" width="448" /></a><br />In Canada, there was someone called John Brayton in 1987 who wanted to publish comics, but he never got any further than that. I think he got into music.<br /><br /><br />Most companies don’t like rumours that they are consulting foreigners about their business -it can be a big problem business-wise. I’ve been compiling a British Comics Industry Over-view since 1992 and at book fairs people talk to each other. Do you think maybe I should ask for a wad of cash up front?<br /><br /><br /><b>Latter</b>: Sounds like a plan. I’m your new agent, by the way. I get 60%. I’m in a generous mood today. Smile.<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://hoopercomics.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/t-phantom.jpg" style="text-decoration: none;"><img alt="" height="688" src="http://hoopercomics.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/t-phantom.jpg?w=500&h=688" style="border: none; position: relative;" title="T Phantom" width="500" /></a><br /><br /><br />ILLO;Folks, here is one of many Lee Falk’s <b>The Phantom</b> pages that Terry Hooper drew some years ago, in an attempt to land a job drawing that feature professionally. If you ask me, he really has the knack for it!<br /><br /><b>Hooper</b>: I am regarded to be a British comics historian, having met and interviewed many of the creators who worked for comics here in England, and I also traced the history of British publishers in my publications. As a talent spotter, I helped various creators break into the comic industry such as John Royle, Jon Haward, Duncan Fegredo, and Art Wetherell, to name some.<br /><br /><br />Lee Davis, as an introduction to an interview of myself in Imagineers magazine, noted that I was “…a near legendary figure in the British comics industry.” I was very flattered. However, I’d sooner have a lot of money…no, seriously!<br /><br /><br /><b>Latter</b>: Well, no one can put food on the table nor pay the rent based on ‘they love me.’<br /><br /><br /><b>Hooper</b>: That’s true. In the U.S. magazine <b>Amazing Heroes</b>, Hal Hargit described me as “….the hardest-working man in comics!” Gerd Hamer, in a German comics magazine, described me as “…the father of European super heroes…”<br /><br /><br /><b>Latter</b>: That’s high praise, Terry. When do you find time to sleep?”<br /><br /><br /><b>Hooper</b>: Sleep? I used to work twenty hours a day, 365 days a year, no Christmas, et cetera. I’d get artists or other comics people passing through Bristol who’d call in at one, two or three A.M. They all knew I was an insomniac. Of course, that later caught up with me after twenty years; pot after pot of coffee, not eating properly. Hey, I coulda been a drinker or smoker!<br /><br /><br /><b>Latter</b>: Instead, you’re a comic book addict, like me. Smile. We should both be in a comics ‘twelve steps program.’ “Hi, I’m Phil and this is Terry.” We’d hang our heads down low and continue, in shame: “…and we’re Comicaholics…”<br /><br /><br /><b>Hooper</b>: Apart from writing and drawing comics, I have, since 1986, been promoting European comics in the UK, both in my publications and on my various websites. My interests in this area include Russian, Chinese, Czech, Hungarian, German, Finnish, Belgian, Australian, New Zealand, and, naturally, British and American comic books.<br /><br /><br /><b>Latter</b>: Hey, you left out Canada. Although, I’m actually kidding. Because, folks, I know for a fact, having yakked with Terry Hooper for a couple of years, now, daily, by emails, that Terry is a big fan of Canadian comic books. He promotes them on not just one, but TWO different websites, which he created, some time ago, on the web, devoted to Canadian comics. He’s quite a fan of the Golden Age 1940′s ‘Canadian Whites’ comics, books, and <b>Captain Canuck</b>, to name just a few.<br /><br /><br />As it says elsewhere in the interview, folks, not only is Terry Hooper a writer, an artist, a publisher, a British comics historian, etc,etc,etc…..he is also a historian of history.<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://hoopercomics.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/nemesis1.jpg" style="color: #9f4b00; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="" height="697" src="http://hoopercomics.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/nemesis1.jpg?w=487&h=697" style="border: none; position: relative;" title="nemesis" width="487" /></a><br /><a href="http://hoopercomics.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/nemesis-hood-in-comics-is-like-this.jpg" style="color: #9f4b00; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="" height="436" src="http://hoopercomics.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/nemesis-hood-in-comics-is-like-this.jpg?w=399&h=436" style="border: none; position: relative;" title="Nemesis hood in comics is like this" width="399" /></a><br /><br />Illo -Awhile ago, Terry told me that the hood of the Silver Age ‘<b>Nemesis</b>’ superhero was based on hoods from the medieval age. I found that hard to believe. Well, he proved me wrong! Look at this scan!<br /><br />Terry and I trade large parcels of British and Canadian (U.S. as well) — comic books by mail, regularly. Not only that, Terry has been working on a self-created tongue in cheek revival of the 1940′s Golden Age ‘Canadian Whites’ superheroes, intended as a comics mini series, which he wrote and drew himself. It is entitled <b>‘Canada Must Die!’</b><br /><br /><br /><b>Hooper</b>: “Tongue in cheek”? Did you think it was funny? I’ve just been reworking pages but there’s nothing meant to be “tongue-in-cheek” about it -they destroyed the <b>JLA</b> and <b>Blue Beetle</b> last time that phrase was used. Actually, look at what they did with that <b>GLA</b> title -or the <b>New Defenders</b>. Gods forbid I do that!<br /><br /><br /><b>Latter</b>: Sorry. What I was actually referring to was the title name itself, <b>‘Canada Must Die.’</b> I just meant, Terry Hooper is not out to destroy Canada. Uh….you’re not, are you?<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://hoopercomics.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/t0004.jpg" style="text-decoration: none;"><img alt="" height="667" src="http://hoopercomics.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/t0004.jpg?w=484&h=667" style="border: none; position: relative;" title="T0004" width="484" /></a><br /><a href="http://hoopercomics.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/t0005.jpg" style="text-decoration: none;"><img alt="" height="668" src="http://hoopercomics.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/t0005.jpg?w=500&h=668" style="border: none; position: relative;" title="T0005" width="500" /></a><br /><br />ILLOS;Here’s some art scans, attached, folks, of Terry’s character studies for the 1940′s Canadian superheroes <b>The Dreamer</b>, and <b>The Penguin</b>, the second of which I should point out is NO relation to The Batman’s nemesis of the same name! Both of these characters were Canadian-created superheroes in the Golden Age of 1940’s World War Two era comics, also known as ‘The Canadian Whites’! Terry Hooper drew these as characters studies while doing his all-new <b>‘Canada Must Die’</b> comics mini-series, resurrecting these 1940’s Canadian superheroes, in brand-new comics stories!<br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://hoopercomics.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/t0002.jpg" style="text-decoration: none;"><img alt="" height="689" src="http://hoopercomics.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/t0002.jpg?w=500&h=689" style="border: none; position: relative;" title="T0002" width="500" /></a><br /><br /><br />ILLO;Terry Hooper has also created innumerable examples of his own created comics characters, just like many other comics fans have, including myself. The difference with Terry, though, is that he has published numerous comic books, self-published, over decades, with his own characters!<br />Here’s an illustration of just some of them.<br /><br /><br /><b>Hooper</b>: When I lived in Germany, I read comics from Bastei and the Disney stuff, but Bastei comics were drawn by French, Spanish, Italian and even Belgian artists. These were reprints in the German language.<br /><br /><b>Latter</b>: I remember you mentioning that, awhile ago. You are part German, right? What can you tell me about that? And, do you speak fluent German? I know you moved to Germany at one point from England, but, were you born in England originally, or Germany? And if the former, how is it that you are part German?<br /><br /><br /><b>Hooper</b>: I’ve not been back to Germany in 24 years, my German is stale. Uh, I was born in Bristol.<br /><br /><b>Latter</b>: Like the lyric from Elton John’s Made In England CD from the CD of the same name, “I was made in England, like a Ford Cortina…” Smile.<br /><br /><b>Hooper</b>: I later learned that a lot of Italian and Spanish artists, as well as South American artists, worked on British strips -hence my odd mix of British/-European and U.S. art style.<br /><br /><b>Latter</b>: Your style works just fine for me. As someone I have been chatting with for a couple of years now, on the internet, I am of course aware that, for decades now, you have been writing, drawing and self-publishing your own periodicals: comic books, interview type magazines or fanzines (including COMIC BITS, which I just love, very high quality stuff), and ongoing comic book titles including Adventure, and Black Tower Presents. Adventure, for example, has had many more than fifty issues written, illustrated, and self-published by you, for example. That’s pretty prolific, I would say, for a self-publisher!<br /><br />I should also take a moment to inform our readers that your self-published comic books and other publications, of which you’ve kindly sent me many, come under the title heading of Black Tower Comics.<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://hoopercomics.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/small-devilina.jpg" style="color: #9f4b00; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-85" height="702" src="http://hoopercomics.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/small-devilina.jpg?w=497&h=702" style="border: none; position: relative;" title="small DEVILINA" width="497" /></a><br /><br /><br />The Black Tower art logo of which, interestingly enough, Defiant Comics later used for their OWN line of comics, without your permission, after asking you for a copy of the design at a British comic book convention numerous years ago, for the stated reason that they ‘liked the design. Hey, can I have a copy of that?”<br /><br />Meaning, they later stole/-plagiarized your design, which is something you’ve proven to me. You’ve told me this interesting story in the past. Would you be willing to share it with our readers?<br /><br />I cannot remember when Defiant Comics was set up but it must have been around 1992 or 1993.<br /><br /><b>Latter</b>: I have some of their comics, the earliest of which, first issues, including <b>Dark Domain</b> # 1, are dated inside as being from 1993.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><img alt="Issue " src="http://covers2.cbrd.info/4314b2fe423dba4faee1a351acb168dc_xl.jpg" /><br /><br /><br /><br /><b>Hooper</b>: Certainly some British comic mags referred to the fact that Defiant had adopted a logo very much like my own Black Tower logo graphic-except they added a little namby-pamby window in it! By that time I’d already used the Black Tower as a letter head and as a publishing icon for…ten years or more! Long before Defiant Comics came into existence under Jim Shooter.<br /><br />My Black Tower Comics with Black Tower cover logo graphic, depicting that black tower, dated from the 1970’s to the present! I know I met Jim Shooter at a UKCAC (UK Comic Art Convention) in London and gave him lots of my stuff, at his request, as well as story ideas. He stated that he was quite interested with my Black Tower design on the masthead covers of my self-published small press British comics, and he asked me for copies. At the time I was flattered to be asked, and I thought no more of it.<br /><br />One night in…1994 or a little earlier, it was around 11:45pm, when the phone rang, and my brother called out to me that someone “legal” wanted a word. I took the phone and said: “Hello. Terry Hooper speaking.”</div>
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<br />And this man, an American, on a crackly line spoke.<br /><br />“Mr. Hooper, I am _______________ (I don’t remember his name), and I am from the Defiant Comics Legal Department in The United States. I am calling to tell you that you are infringing on our black tower logo and copyright and you must desist immediately or face the consequences”.<br /><br />It was a thick New York accent. I asked what he was talking about? “That goddamn logo of yours. You are ripping us off, our reputation and possibly misleading comic buyers into thinking you are part of Defiant Comics.”<br /><br />I said, “I’m sorry but I’ve been using that logo since the 1970’s, and I’ve been using it on my publications, self-created and self-published since 1983/ 84–”<br /><br />Him: “Cut the bullshit! You continue, you’ll get your ass sued!”<br /><br />This was a little bit of a shock and I reacted in kind by repeating what I’d said with a few expletives and stating that BEFORE Defiant was even an idea, I had handed Jim Shooter my own self-published British material, including that illustration Black Tower art/-logo at HIS request, since he sounded like a pro who also sounded like a fan, in front of several respected comic industry creators. And thus, if Defiant Comics wanted to sue me, well, “Go a-F******** head and sue me *********!”.<br /><br />He said that I had not heard the last of this.<br /><br />Well, I phoned Defiant’s phone number in the U.S.A. and I spoke to people there, who told me I should not use my own logo, which had been in published existence long before Defiant Comics was even an idea. Long before they used MY logo, having ripped ME off! I repeated the history and I told them to tell Mr. Shooter I await his pleasure in court!</div>
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Nothing more came of it. Because they KNEW they had plagiarized my logo. But this legal rep was from Defiant and he had tried to bully me over the phone. Now I have Scharf-Hooper-Case family blood – you DO NOT threaten us and expect a meek response. In fact, he seemed taken aback at my language!! That was it. A few mags PRINTED this story because at that time I had a phone call recorder and this cut in when the phone rang and so the whole conversation was recorded! The mag editors heard the whole thing. I would have expected the offer of money to stop using my OWN logo or whatever.<br /><br /><b>Latter</b>: Defiant Comics’ <b>War Dancer</b> # 1 is an extremely disgusting comic book. In the final pages of this premiere issue, this weird character, <b>War Dancers</b>, kills this little girl’s dog by blasting the pet, with a force blast from his hand. The dog blows apart in every direction; you can see bits of teeth, separated jaw, bone, stomach contents and fecal matter.<br /><br />The little girl, understandably upset, says, in tears, “You’re not a good guy at all!”<br /><br /><b>War Dancer</b> replies, “I am the dancer”, then does the very same thing to her, and this scene is drawn in an even more disgusting manner, by Alan Weiss. Who wrote this gem of a comic book? Alan Weiss….and Jim Shooter.<br /><br />Note: <b>Dark Domain</b> # 1 is dated inside as October 1993. Whereas, War Dancer # 1 is dated inside as February 1994. Numbers don’t lie.<br /><br /><b>Latter</b>: Terry, you’re a gentleman and I know that you don’t like to think the worst of people. But think about it. You gave your designs to Jim Shooter at his request, who asked for them. Meaning you were flattered that he liked the design. Obviously, you did not mean that he nor anyone else could publish your design on their own comic books. And, this all happened at a British Comics convention in front of witnesses including industry pros. You had the whole thing on tape, when his crony (or him posing as his legal crony) phoned you in an attempt to scare you out of NOT using your OWN published company logo design, which Jim Shooter himself got a copy of from you, previously, in person.<br /><br />Jim Shooter OWNED Defiant Comics. In the first issue of Defiant Comics’ Dark Domain, a comic book which bears the Black Tower ripped-off-from-you cover corner design, Jim Shooter, ironically wrote an inside editorial that an unrelated court case was over, the subject of which was that Marvel had sued Defiant Comics on another matter. The edititorial about this IN Defiant’s b>Dark Domain # 1 comic book covered the fact that the Marvel versus Defiant court case was over, but that a ruling decision had not yet been made.<br /><br /><b>Hooper</b>: Yes, I’ve seen the Defiant LOGO but none of the comics. Remember, I live in the United Kingdom, not in North America. I think that they were perhaps counting on the fact that, likely I would never, ever see a Defiant Comic book, nor even hear about it. You’d think they would have at least offered me some money, having stolen my already-published-several-times design. I guess they just thought I was small potatoes, no threat to them. What could I do? It was because this suddenly appeared {Defiant} and the logo similarities that people thought I was involved there. Today, I’d sue them for every penny and have them withdraw the logo but back then I was kinda…..nice.<br /><br />Worry about someone suing me?</div>
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<br />HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA…..no. Sue me for what -a postage stamp??<br /><br /><b>Latter</b>: Right. You can’t sue someone who has no money. And you would have won in court. They knew you could legally prove that they stole/-plagiarized your design.<br /><br /><b>Latter</b>: I spoke to Shooter in…1991? I think they started publishing around 1992-93?<br /><br />In 1991 or so, I showed him all the art samples from the people I represented including my Previews comic and Black Tower stuff -all with the Black Tower logo on cover and edit page. He took Previews there and then (a 60+ pages comic.) Of course, I think I was being nice to him but you are quite right that he was THE big boss there at Defiant Comics.<br /><br />I guess Shooter must have thought it was pretty cool. I have no idea who the phone man was; it was long ago and who knows where he might be now?<br /><br /><b>Latter</b>: When did Defiant start? I say, 1993 or not much earlier. You had them beat, time wise, by several years. And, we’re going to prove it.</div>
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<b>Hooper</b>: It’s time the truth came out. But after all these years who cares? Not me.<br /><br /><b>Latter</b>: Also, about Jim Shooter: you said that Jim Shooter himself asked you for those printed Black Tower graphics logos at the British Comics Con all those years ago. WHICH year would this have been? The point is, if it was Jim Shooter who asked you for it and you gave him a copy (not knowing he’d rip you off), does it not then sound reasonable that it was HE who gave it to Defiant, telling them to copy it? Jim Shooter owned and ran the company, and he got the design in his hand, from you, in person.<br /><br /><b>Hooper:</b>Well,I have no idea what was going on behind the scenes. Someone may have just seen the logo and thought it might work. For all I know Shooter was being polite when he asked for samples and may just have put them in a box when he got back to the US. Although I never liked the Defiant attitude and threats I have absolutely no proof that Shooter was behind anything. He’s always portrayed as a villain so people jump to conclusions. If I had proof I’d have written to him.<br /><br /><b>Latter:</b>When you started self-publishing, decades ago, what titles did you publish, how large or small were your print runs, fanzines, magazines, and other titles, and where did you advertise them for sale? EG: publications, etc. In other words, how did you get the word out that you were in business and looking for readers and/-or subscribers?<br /><br />Where in the world did you ship them to? How many people on average would be reading each issue?<br /><br /><b>Hooper</b>: Well, the Hooper Coat of Arms has a black tower on one version and I had this flat, mini chess piece like that also, and it looked cool. So, from the 1970′s on, I used this on paper, etc.<br />In 1983, I put together lots of strips and published <b>Black Tower Adventure</b> and <b>Black Tower Presents</b>in 1984.</div>
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<b style="font-size: 17.9685px;">Hooper</b><span style="font-size: 17.9685px;">: My comics interview magazine </span><b style="font-size: 17.9685px;">Comic Bits</b><span style="font-size: 17.9685px;"> is due to re-appear in May,2006 in a new format. There is also its internet counter-part at </span><a href="http://hoopercomicart.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/batman-vs-superman-new-batman-will-be.html" rel="nofollow nofollow" style="cursor: pointer; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17.9972px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://hoopercomicart.blogspot.co.uk</a></div>
<br /><span style="font-size: 17.9685px;">The comics? Well, there will be much more coming out in 2006 with a new look.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 17.9685px;">I advertised through the first small press news, reviews, interviews and </span><b style="font-size: 17.9685px;">PREVIEWS</b><span style="font-size: 17.9685px;"> mag in the UK which I set up with Paul Brown and Jerry Holliday, titled </span><b style="font-size: 17.9685px;">ZINE ZONE</b><span style="font-size: 17.9685px;">. We had a </span><b style="font-size: 17.9685px;">ZZ</b><span style="font-size: 17.9685px;"> mail order and comic mart stall and we really pushed the UK small press into the shops and so on. My </span><b style="font-size: 17.9685px;">PREVIEWS</b><span style="font-size: 17.9685px;"> mag in the UK bears no relation what-so-ever to the American </span><b style="font-size: 17.9685px;">PREVIEWS</b><span style="font-size: 17.9685px;"> monthly comics order catalogue.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 17.9685px;">Having done a survey, we know </span><b style="font-size: 17.9685px;">ZZ</b><span style="font-size: 17.9685px;"> was read by about 200 people -some copies were read by 3 to 5 people and passed around. By 1990, I was running the whole thing, writing, editing, paste-ups and printing. I also worked for MU Press, in Seattle as a British reporter and distributor/agent.</span><br /><br /><b style="font-size: 17.9685px;">Latter</b><span style="font-size: 17.9685px;">: That’s interesting. I didn’t know. What can you tell me about MU Press? What does MU stand for? You didn’t live in Seattle, right? You mailed your stuff to them? What kind of articles did you write for them and what type of a publication was this? Was it a newspaper, or?</span><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwLdcEvJ1AdTks7at55i_qXOKCDygyScINM3w-mdYZ1OiKSbx-qZgk-2rCCjFlW9ODC03uz0ot5rLZ7ev1eJng9lod4SBz0C6aUW5w7WPvQvRTZ15IbQIJonhUa9KtgvUkR5o5Jp0r0A0/s1600/TH+PAB.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="font-size: 17.9685px; line-height: 25.1559px; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwLdcEvJ1AdTks7at55i_qXOKCDygyScINM3w-mdYZ1OiKSbx-qZgk-2rCCjFlW9ODC03uz0ot5rLZ7ev1eJng9lod4SBz0C6aUW5w7WPvQvRTZ15IbQIJonhUa9KtgvUkR5o5Jp0r0A0/s400/TH+PAB.jpg" width="400" /></a><br /><b style="font-size: 17.9685px;">Above: With Paul Ashley Brown</b></div>
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<b>Hooper</b>: MU Press I think was Miscellanie Unlimited Press? They produced Donna Barr’s <b>Desert Peach</b>comics and compilation books, a series called <b>Rhaj</b>, oh dear lords I’ll have to send you references. I interviewed Edd Vick the publisher, for Zine Zone International; he publishes under AEON now -check out Previews. I wrote a column for their newspaper Comix FX under “Tel’s From The Crypt” and I acted as a promoter/ UK agent for MU and other independent publishers in the 1986-94 period….though none of them paid me as they were supposed to. Know why I dumped the job?? Bill Black’s AC Comics was a joy to promote. I love their stuff!<br /><br />I was promoting AC, Chrome Tiger, Mu and others and I was in touch with Donna Barr and Roberta Gregory as well as creators in Europe and Canada.<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://hoopercomics.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/zine-zone-selection.jpg" style="text-decoration: none;"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-143" height="327" src="http://hoopercomics.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/zine-zone-selection.jpg?w=490&h=327" style="border: none; position: relative;" title="DIGITAL CAMERA" width="490" /></a><br /><br />Zine Zone was going out to Hong Kong, China, Russia, the then Czechoslovakia, Poland, Finland, Germany, France, Belgium, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Bahrain and the US so the title changed to ZINE ZONE INTERNATIONAL.<br /><br /><b>Latter</b>: You were working for Zine Zone, not publishing it yourself, I take it? Is <b>ZZ</b> still going? When did <b>ZZ</b>start?<br /><br /><b>Hooper</b>: I put together -typed, photocopied and pasted up artwork, photocopied and published Zine Zone International.<br /><br /><b>Latter</b>: How many different titles did you publish, how many issues of each, etc? Can you name some more of the titles?<br /><br /><b>Hooper</b>: I believe <b>Adventure</b> is at # 60. I published a new talent comic, <b>Previews</b> in the 1980’s, and creators like Art Wetherell, Matt D’Israeli Brooker, Duncan Fegredo, John Royle and even Jon Haward appeared in that and went on to pro work.<br /><br />Jenette Kahn at DC liked this comic I put out. DC Comics hired a lot of creators from <b>Previews</b>. Tom DeFalco praised it and some editors told me they kept the copies in their desk drawers.<br /><br /><b>Latter</b>: Interesting. How many issue numbers did Previews run?<br /><br /><b>Hooper</b>: <b>Previews</b> ran four issues. And it was actually called by two comic mags, “One of the most successful – if not THE most successful United Kingdom New Talent comics. series.”<br /><br />Outside of comics, I have worked with companies such as Yorkshire Television and HTV to create ideas and programmes for TV, such as the Channel 4 “Carry On” film weekend in 1999. I have also been featured in documentaries; TV/ Radio news programmes in my capacity as a veteran naturalist and police consultant. I’ve consulted with them on wildlife.<br /><br />I am also a historian specialing in Pre-Roman and Roman Britain, Celts and rediscovered ‘lost’ history.<br />There is a whole idea in people’s minds that Colombus discovered America and that the only people before him were the Vikings. In fact, late Romans ended up in Arizona. This has been proven scientifically. Celts and even the Irish were going to America before Colombus, and traders from Bristol made their fortunes on that same route long before Colombus got there.<br /><br />Ask yourself, why would a painting of a Roman feast contain an image of a pineapple, which is a New World fruit? There are tons of this information that academics laughed at but now, they have to take seriously. “Forgotten History”.</div>
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<br /><br /><b>Latter</b>: Interesting. About the documentarires, do you mean you have been featured IN those domentaries? Or that you yourself filmed those documentaries, wrote or consulted on them?<br /><br /><b>Hooper</b>: I’ve been filmed for two or three BBC TV programmes and one independent film mainly as an expert on large cats and exotic animals in the UK countryside.<br /><br />For others, I put together ideas usually with a company (when there was more than one!) -believe me, the idea of copyright and one TV executive I worked with told me: “They rejected the project. In a year, they’ll have made it and if we say anything, they’ll say they simply came up with the idea”….and he was right! I’m putting together research for some now but can’t talk about that or someone will steal the idea!!”<br /><br /><b>Latter</b>: Hmm. What is that saying, something like humans will sink down to the lowest common denominator, stealing from others, and taking the credit for themselves. Hey—Defiant Comics!<br /><br />Terry, what did the police consult you on? Or, what were you a Police Consultant on?<br /><br /><b>Hooper</b>: Police have sightings, photographs, plaster casts of tracks, livestock deaths where its suspected a large cat, like a puma or panther –(panther being a black leopard), and they get in touch with me. I’m a Police Consultant but no fast cars, loose women or mystery murders in mansions! On both wildlife and history I have published numerous papers between 1979-2004.<br /><br /><b>Latter</b>: Terry, you never cease to surprise me. Wow. How did that make you feel, that you gave these guys their start (comics pros.) ? And, what topics did you write some of these papers on?<br /><br /><b>Hooper</b>: I was quite happy. A lot of these people are now “big shots” but there are one or two who publicly acknowledge me as “the man who gave me my break in comics” such as Jon Haward who draws Marvel UK stuff like <b>Spider-Man</b> and underground star Mark Stafford. I thought I sent you Mark’s comic the same time as <b>Deadman & Hyde</b>, etc. I have a mail from you on this…?<br /><br /><b>Latter</b>: Yes, you did send me the British comic book <b>Deadman & Hyde</b> # 1 and # 2. They were quite good!<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://hoopercomics.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/t0001.jpg" style="color: #9f4b00; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="" height="702" src="http://hoopercomics.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/t0001.jpg?w=500&h=702" style="border: none; position: relative;" title="T0001" width="500" /></a><br /><br /><b>Hooper</b>: Some of the titles I have published over the years are : <b>Hanley’s Garage, Windows, Adventure, BT Presents, Previews, Turkish Locomotive, Dervish Ropey and the Maximin Sword, Walter Wicks</b>, various one-offs, more recently <b>Classic British Westerns, Classic British Action, Classic British Funnies, Chung Ling Soo and the Jade Dragon King, Liz & Jen</b>….oh boy,that’s all I can think of!<br /><br /><b>Maximin</b> was drawn by the wonderful John Erasmus.<br /><br /><b>Latter</b>: I liked in particular <b>Liz & Jen</b>, a comics story you did about two lesbians. I am not kidding nor trying to pun, when I tell you it was a touching story. Well-done and with an important message. I wish more people could see it. It’s quite good. When did that one come out?<br /><br /><b>Hooper</b>: <b>Liz & Jen</b>….I wrote and drew it and about a year later someone said “have you seen that new comic -<b>Love And Rockets</b>? Since you did this, Terry, you’ll love that”…when did <b>Love And Rockets</b>come out….1985? I actually got a great deal of mail at one time over that strip – including from women who read it and decided there was no shame in “Coming Out”. One woman and her girlfriend told me they cried over it. Was it that bad?!<br /><br /><b>Latter</b>: No Terry. The problem with it was, it was that good. Smile. There was another, later American lesbian comic book short-lived series, also called <b>Liz & Beth</b>. This one was a porn comics title. I have # 1. Hey, how that version got into my home, I uh, have no idea….I think it came after yours. The titles<b>Hanley’s Garage</b> and <b>Turkish Locomotive</b> kind of grab me. What were those about?<br /><br /><b>Hooper</b>: John Erasmus drew a load of strips and we published them under his own created comic title -<b>Turkish Locomotive</b>. Just seemed cool at the time! <b>Hanley’s Garage</b> only saw one issue as the creator couldn’t be bothered after writing/ drawing the first part.<br /><br />Today there are quite a few American artists that I think are great. Gene Colan, Alex Toth, John Byrne (he really brought me back to a point where I got enthusiastic about comics again),Tong Wong, and lots of European creators. And, I have to add to the list and give a special mention to Los Bros Hernandez. I fell in love with Jaime’s work and I still think he is one of the most under-rated artists in comics! I’d give my right arm to work with him, or all three brothers, for that matter!<br /><br /><br /><b>Latter</b>: good choices. I grew up with reading Gene Colan and Alex Toth comics artwork in the Silver Age, although it wasn’t of course called The Silver Age,back then.<br /><br />You know you’re not a spring chicken anymore, when you (me)reminisce, and it then suddenly dawns on you that you grew up in an era that now has a TITLE. You know: “The Silver Age”. Like The Mezazoic Age, The Precambrian Age. This is where I, finally, come to the irrescapable conclusion that I’m a dinosaur, any way you slice it! Smile.<br /><br />John Byrne, of course, came later, from Canada. I still have a lot of his early stuff, including <b>CPL (Contemporary Pictorial Literature)</b>, a 1970′s Charlton Comics fanzine done by many of Charlton’s later talent, Byrne’s <b>Wheelie And The Chopper Bunch, Space: 1999, Rog: 2000</b> backups in <b>E-man</b>, and of course, <b>Doomsday + One</b>. Pre-Marvel stuff, for him. 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<br />Terry Hooper also wrote (not drew) the adult content <b>Two Hot Girls On A Hot Summer Night</b> mini series, for the U.S. company Eros Company, which has been reprinted frequently, all over the world.<br /><br />How that came about: Years ago, Terry contacted them to see if they could use his comics talents. Well, they could, but they only published smut comics, so Terry, never one to resist a challenge, rolled up his shirt sleeves, and got to it! I’ve read some of them, including # 1, and they’re actually quite funny! And yes, well-done.<br /><br />Terry, this is as good a time to mention, that you also have numerous websites of your own devoted to comic books of many countries, including England, Canada, India and New Zealand and Australia. You work hard to spread the word and educate people concerning comic books written, illustrated and published by numerous comics the world over! I don’t want to make you blush, but I’m been a rabid comics reader, collector and enthusiast for over three decades, and I nonetheless don’t know a single other soul who does this, in terms of websites devoted to comic books from foreign countries, to the extent that you do. In my opinion, you are quite unique in this regard!<br /><br />And then of course, you have your very own Black Tower Comics website, for your own self-published, written and drawn small press comics. How about sharing with our readers the many URL website links for all of these links?<br /><br /><b>Hooper</b>: Sure. Happy to. I don’t scan and post whole comic books to my sites, by the way, just covers, for info purposes. As well as some graphics, and a lot of text information. Background and historical information on them. I get a lot of compliments on my comics sites!<br /><br />Here is a list of some of them, their internet locations. To readers of this interview, simply click on them one at a time:<br /><br /><a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/americanmysterymen" style="text-decoration: none;">http://groups.yahoo.com/group/americanmysterymen</a><br /><a href="http://www.comicsbulletin.com/features/%E2%80%9Chttp:/groups.yahoo.com/group/chinesecomics" style="text-decoration: none;">http://groups.yahoo.com/group/chinesecomics</a><br /><a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/britcomics" style="text-decoration: none;">http://groups.yahoo.com/group/britcomics</a><br /><a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/eurocomics" style="text-decoration: none;">http://groups.yahoo.com/group/eurocomics</a><br /><a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/alanclasscomics" style="text-decoration: none;">http://groups.yahoo.com/group/alanclasscomics</a><br /><br /><br />I should point out here, that I had the very first Alan Class website, which is provable from the dates of the earliest posts to that group. Now, there are more Alan Class sites from others.<br /><br /><b>Latter</b>: You mean, there are more? GASP. Smile. That’s amazing. You’ve certainly got lots of drive and ambition, also known as ‘get up and go!’<br /><br /><br />Thank you so much for talking to us today, Terry. I know you don’t like interviews but it’s been a real pleasure, and exquisitely interesting, my friend!</div>
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However, to appease Frank Barrell, I have posted two of the interviews I've been caught up in over the last ten years. I have been involved in UK Small Press and Comics promotion as well as publishing since the early 1980s and I've promoted the UK comic/Small Press in the United States and beyond. In fact, according to Frank, who should know, no one in Bristol has been involved in comics for so long -40 years and before that with school magazine publishing (and banning!).</div>
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<span style="color: black;">It seems a few people had trouble getting to read the QRD interview so...here you are. Apologies if you come across any "</span><span style="color: black;">&" which seemed spread throughout the QRD interview but I think I got them all!</span><br /><span style="color: black;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;"><br /><br /><b>QRD</b> – How old were you when you first got into comics and did you always stick with them or did you come back to them?<br /><br /><b>Terry</b> – Ohhhhh boy. You realise that I am very, very old, right? I used to have comics bought for me by my grandfather, Bill. Being in the UK and the 1960s we are talking British weekly comics. I began reading comics at the age of 5 years. Comics that I enjoyed ranged from <i>Bimbo</i>, <i>Beezer</i>, <i>Topper</i>, <i>Lion</i>, and so many others. When my family moved to Germany, my reading, naturally, had to change and I began reading comics from companies such as Carlsen, Disney, and Germany’s biggest publisher of European comics, Bastei.</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: black;"><b>Below:</b>That's me (about 10 years old) older brother Peter and Lassie the dog in Sevier St., St. Werburgh's my then comics stomping ground.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><br />So that’s 50+ straight years of reading comics.<br /><br /><b>QRD</b> – What was the first comic book you ever bought?<br /><br /><b>Terry</b> – When I got my weekly pocket money (allowance) it was not much. The family were typical working class so money was short. However, with money I could decide what I wanted to buy and read. I purchased UK reprints of the Dell <i>Tarzan</i> series, UK black &whites such as <i>The Purple Hood</i> and <i>The Adventures of Mark Tyme</i>, but what was the very first comic? That was over 40 years ago. I really cannot remember!<br /><br /><b>QRD</b> – How old were you when you put out your first comic?<br /><br /><b>Terry</b> – Long story short. I put together a school magazine titled <i>Starkers -- The Magazine That Tells The Naked Truth</i>. The title came from the deputy head teacher and it was supposed to have cartoons, jokes, and a comic strip. Apparently one of the school secretaries who had to prepare all the pages for print objected to the title and the head teacher banned the mag. I had to wait until 1984 for B<i>lack</i><i> Tower</i><i> Adventure (volume 1) #1</i>to be completed and printed!<br /><br /><b>QRD</b> – What decade do you think produced the best comics?<br /><br /><b>Terry</b> – The Golden Age period of the 1930s-1940s laid out all the groundwork and things got stunted in the 1950s thanks to idiots like Wertham. The 1960s I would say is a time when things took off more and publishers developed more originality. In the UK we had a long history of anti-heroes in comics. The Spider was a master criminal with a crime organisation, but he also helped out the law later on so you were never sure which way he might turn next. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: black;">And the Bat by William Ward might be considered a freedom fighter or a terrorist (depending the side you were on) as he fought to liberate his country, Stahlia. We also, in the UK, had a long history of occult characters -- Dene Vernon who tackled violent ghosts, demons, cults and even aliens and subterranean foes in the 1940s-1950s. Too long winded? </span><br /><br /><span style="color: black;">I’d have to say 1960s because the UK did see all these new characters appear & some were quite risky (we never had a Comics Code Authority), but then Marvel gave comics a creative kick in the ass. 1960s.</span><br /><span style="color: black;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxtukk_qs6eXUFB4aFhA7kvtTra2Ft51gPS_M7z5KJTv5CYOUetr5Lvk2vCptOOWUSL-N5WuWG4rRbEMnj_JjpxpTQ-5n_KbEGlAWzv_IZMaW82kzZiGGzXTEdKNB7FBYJVZVD2927dyv9/s1600/Me+Alien.jpg" style="color: #7d181e; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxtukk_qs6eXUFB4aFhA7kvtTra2Ft51gPS_M7z5KJTv5CYOUetr5Lvk2vCptOOWUSL-N5WuWG4rRbEMnj_JjpxpTQ-5n_KbEGlAWzv_IZMaW82kzZiGGzXTEdKNB7FBYJVZVD2927dyv9/s640/Me+Alien.jpg" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-radius: 5px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 20px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="480" /></a> </span><br /><span style="color: black;"> <b>Above: </b>Terry along with an Alien friend at the 2011 Bristol Comic Expo</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: black;"> <b>QRD</b> – Why comics instead of just writing or drawing?<br /><b><br />Terry</b> – I do all. I write and draw comics and publish them -- I also wrote for Marvel UK and other companies -- but I also write as a comics journalist, but also on specialist subjects such as wildlife, but also about the strange and weird things I’ve investigated over 35 years. So I get to do all these things. Love it. Prose books on factual subjects are harder as you have to include lots of research references and notes. Now I do my comic journalism online!<br /><br /><b>QRD</b> – Do you see mini-comics and indie comics as paths to mainstream comics or as their own unique media?<br /><br /><b>Terry</b> – Not any more. A lot of the creators who are well known these days and who started in comics in the 1970s all began by contributing to fanzines as writers or artists and that gave them the experience they needed -- that applies in the UK and US.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><br />Today, companies such as Marvel and DC are very restrictive about bringing in new talent and Dark Horse and Image can cherry-pick what they want. With print-on-demand most people like the creative freedom: you can write and draw what you want and publish it -- no editor or moneyman saying, “Well, okay… but maybe if you changed…” You also sell your own books -- whether for fun or to get the experience and feedback and make a few extra dollars -- YOU get all the money not a small percentage.</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: black;"><b>Below:</b> The 2011 Big Draw event where I went to see how Paul Ashley Brown was getting on and ended up with about twenty youngsters teaching them how to draw spiders, worms and stuff in general.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><br />In the UK the entire comic scene now is small press and indie comics and a lot of those involved in the small press have never even read a comic book. It isn’t the same feel now and I think it’s easier to produce your own comic and try to get it to a company editor and see if they publish creator owned books because Marvel and DC do not.</span><br /><span style="color: black;"><br />It’s your choice which path you take, Grasshopper!<br /><br /><b>QRD</b> – How many copies of your comic do you print in your first run?<br /><br /><b>Terry</b> – I never discuss print runs. It is not important. Sales are. In the old UK comic days editors would tell you “We have a 120,000 copies print run!” or, later, a 60,000 print run. But that was print run not sales and when Fleetway still owned <i>2000 AD</i> the editor and publisher told me “We have a 60,000 print run…it has a “cult” following,” which meant that the minimum number of copies a printer would handle was 60,000 but actual sales were maybe a quarter or half that -- and I may be being very kind with those figures!</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><br />Print On Demand means that you do not have to store thousands of copies of books -- just the original art! With an online store or via Amazon or one of the other outlets who sell Black Tower Comics, what happens is that someone orders a book that goes through to the print company who process the book and send it out. That simple. For comic events you order as many as you think you might be able to sell -- so I have two big boxes here full of books for the next event. Print runs mean nothing now.<br /><br /><b>QRD</b> – How much do you think comics should cost?<br /><br /><b>Terry</b> – Are we talking Marvel and DC? They charge what they want and make up an excuse as to cover prices (read Sean Howe’s <i>Marvel Comics The Untold Story</i>!).</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><br />If you mean small pressers & indie publishers… there are a number of factors. First is that, unlike mega big corporations like DC or Disney/Marvel, small publishers cannot call the shots on cost of printing. We have to go by what the deal is we get offered. With print-on-demand black & white comics are cheaper. If you had a 24 page b&w comic but decided to add 4 colour pages your cost goes up. Printers charge so much per colour page but with print-on-demand all the pages, even if they are black and white, are charged as colour pages so your cover price has to reflect that.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><br />You then, if you are buying in copies to sell at events or via mail order, you have to cost based on how much per copy and then add in postage of the books to you and then what it will cost to mail out a book someone orders from you. Publishers get a small discount, so if you add together cost of postage of items to you, table costs and then divide it by the number of books you have to sell you ought to at least make some profit on each book. I dealt with this in more detail in an online article: <a href="http://hoopercomicart.blogspot.co.uk/2015/02/uk-comic-events-hate-me-for-who-i-am.html" style="color: #7d181e; text-decoration: none;">http://hoopercomicart.blogspot.co.uk/2015/02/uk-comic-events-hate-me-for-who-i-am.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><br />I do not think there can be a standard cover price -- that went out the window when producing your own comics got easier.</span><br /><span style="color: black;"><br /></span><span style="color: black;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfRUTdhsljeYAEKSjpx5dBetJffX_XTdph7ny9Zf6xpmuwLpxqIK3T6xcihFS70Rz3Ou9pm_UKPhEIVW8PxYaoRndQ3csIg50kZsx2soVt3zV4pcNPftpmY-3KEUHP_DZ28jwJG7kgSgA6/s640/TWATT+COVER.jpg" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-radius: 5px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 20px; padding: 8px;" width="451" /> <b> </b></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><b>QRD</b> – How many books do you produce a year and how many would you like to?<br /><br /><b>Terry</b> – I don’t go by a schedule. For instance, Ben R. Dilworth, who drew Mark Millar’s <i>The Shadowmen</i>back in the 1980s, sent me a completely drawn 28 page comic. I read through it. I then scanned and edited it and published it. Small pressers and indie comics do not get picked up by Diamond and we do not appear in<i>Previews</i> and store owners really do not give a flying crap about us or our books -- they will when the mainstream industry implodes, which probably is not that far off and, as with the “black and white comics explosion” of the 1980s that saved all their businesses, oh they’ll love our books then.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><br />But at the moment scheduling a book to be ready by such-and-such an event is done by many, however, we are our own bosses and so we can make our own schedule. At the moment, the online store lists 85 books -- these are prose books, comic albums of 24-70 pages, collected editions, and so on. These have all been produced since I went to print-on-demand in 2009, so if you want a statistic that breaks down to 12.25 books per year! I have enough material to continue publishing for a long while!</span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black;"> QRD</span></b><span style="color: black;"> – Do you think stories should be serialized or delivered as complete works?<br /><br /><b>Terry</b> – I was brought up with British weekly comics so a series would run 2 or 3 or 4 pages in a comic each week. You might have to buy 12 comics to get a full story. We never had monthly US comics in the UK, just the occasional copies that found their way here, so <i>The Avengers</i>, <i>Fantastic Four</i>, etc., were serialised. So when I found colour Marvel and DC comics it was like “Wow -- it’s all in one book!”</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><br />I think indie comics have the choice of a trade or serialised. I have always said that I would never publish or start publishing a comic until I had every part in my possession. The reason is simple: I collect all sorts of odd comics from companies and people going back to the 1960s and you find part 1… part 2… and that is it. With the internet, IF you can find reference to those titles you can find out what happened, but a lot were just cancelled -- never sold many copies or whatever. So you have two parts of a series that goes nowhere.</span></div>
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<br /><b>Below:</b> rough page for Heroes Of India<br /><span style="color: black;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEig1kQq2mpRSxXMhrDuWwjBu7qvL17F3hmGSmUfrK0JUI7HyHquGz6TwGBDWh4UtcC3aDD-XpB17zTLrvNdio2-iuDbgtRAioquZfxqa_WV_al5z85aNexOVyUR-HGbLkLh4TlS4p5JjgpY/s640/POWERSHIELD+1.jpg" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-radius: 5px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 20px; padding: 8px;" width="464" /> </span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">If you have parts 1-4 of a series, then you have no real problem. I, like many other comic fans, wasted so much money getting into and buying a series that, “Don just didn’t want to draw comics any more so that was it,” which is an excuse from a moron. I think that if you are going to ask someone to buy your comic, then you owe it to them to make sure there is a complete series or else you are just making a fast buck and running off.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><br /><i>Black Tower Adventure</i> had series divided into parts such as <i>Return Of The Gods: Twilight Of The Super Heroes</i>. But I knew there were people who would only want to buy the super hero series or the fantasy series, but did not want the rest. Whereas others wanted the whole contents as a series of books. So, the various strips were taken and put into collections – <i>Return</i> came to 135 pages, but I then expanded that so the book came to over 300 pages -- but was still cheaper than buying all the issues with the original story parts. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><br />Other books I bring out as a single book. A fairly priced book packed with goodies. To me it made more sense. People might buy a book so they can read a story from start to finish (we do NOT have ads in our books). Paid for and there to read over and over if they wish. For those who like the anthology title I began publishing <i>Black Tower Super Heroes</i> so they can still enjoy that “part works” experience.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><br />It is up to individual publishers and as a rule I go for all in one book.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: black;"><b>Below: </b>Rough page for an Indian publisher: Heroes of India</span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black;">QRD</span></b><span style="color: black;"> – How are comic strips different than comic books and which medium do you prefer?<br /><b><br />Terry</b> – That’s confusing. You need to define what you mean. Comics are comic strips -- Love and Rockets is a book with a comic strip by Jaime, another by Gilbert, and maybe one by Mario. Anthologies are made up of a series of comic strips. Monthly comics such as from DC, Marvel, Dark Horse and Image are single stories or a main story with a back-up strip. In either case I like them -- I’m a comicker! If you mean as in a newspaper comic strip, then I do not buy newspapers but I used to enjoy Garth, Axa, and a few of the other old newspaper classics.<br /><br /><b>QRD</b> – How long is it from when you start a comic until it’s printed?<br /><br /><b>Terry</b> – Again, it depends on how you work. When I worked for Eros Comix on <i>Two Hot Girls</i> and <i>Maeve</i> I would sit down and, in the case of the former title, I would type up the script for four issues starting from 8 a.m. and working til about 2 a.m. and then that would go to the artist -- Art Wetherell -- and to Eros’s editor and once the editor approved, I had to wait for it to be drawn and the publisher to print it (I had no say in anything after the script!) and that took six months?</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><br />Now, if I want to sit down and draw a comic (I do not use scripts for myself, so it’s straight to work) of, say, 24 pages; then I would do that in two weeks -- pencilled, inked, and lettered and then publishing it would take a day so it can be that fast. These days, as no one is paying me, I can take a few days off.</span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black;">QRD</span></b><span style="color: black;"> – What do you do better with your comics now than when you first started?<br /><b><br />Terry</b> – I draw better than 40+ years ago when I was trying to work in comic publishing or as a scriptwriter. I don’t use the computer for any part of the creative process other than lettering, which in my case is heaven -- my lettering was bloody awful. Making a PDF is the main use of the computer after that, so I’d guess lettering and drawing.</span><br /><span style="color: black;"><br /></span><span style="color: black;"><b>Below:</b> Krakos The Egyptian</span><br /><span style="color: black;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8jWyPzP0KJxMQvOQnI5qkEeNrvMPmtZihLI7ECQSMX_8YtWkKgKr2IS2J60YHj17DZmj4CqxObGpkapSVkUZwul3R0Qod7A-YJJeYmYbxXF-pFw-f3knfhXQTeLekrgJ4xPbiBPTIWlGY/s640/cbo+krakos012+001.jpg" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-radius: 5px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 20px; padding: 8px;" width="440" /> </span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"> <b>QRD</b> – Do you do thumbnails?<br /><br /><b>Terry</b> – No. Never have done. I just draw straight to paper and if it fails dismally I chuck that out and start again.<br /><br /><b>QRD</b> – At what size do you draw?<br /><br /><b>Terry</b> – A3 which is twice the size of the printed book -- our standard size is A4. A3 measures 29.7 x 42.0cm or 11.69 x 16.53 inches and A4 measures 21.0 x 29.7cm, 8.27 x 11.69 inches.</span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black;">QRD</span></b><span style="color: black;"> – What kind of pens do you use?<br /><br /><b>Terry</b> – I use a variety. As a jobbing artist you have to use what is best & achieves good results at the cheapest cost to you because those pens are coming out of your pay-cheque! At the moment I am using Uni Pin Fine Line pens with tip sizes from 0.05, 0.1, 0.2 up to 0.8. I’ll also use other fibre tip pens and to speed up work I’ll not use a brush and ink for large areas of solid black, but a thick tipped permanent marker. I still use brush and ink for some work and I also use hard bristle toothbrushes for ink spray effects -- a very old technique used by artists going way back.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"> I did a post on Comic Bits Online on this a couple years back:</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><b><br /></b></span><span style="color: black;"><b><br /></b></span><span style="color: black;"><b>QRD</b> – What does your workstation look like?<br /><br /><b>Terry</b> – HAHAHAHAHAHAHA…oh, you’re being serious? Well if you are a working artist and deal with paper, pens, brushes, ink, and glue -- yes, I still use cut and paste -- then your “work station” is going to look like a bomb hit it. I have a photo if you need to see the “tidy” area? Most artists you’ll see Facebook posts from reading: “Took hours, but the room that looked like a hurricane hit it is now tidy. Now back to work so it will all be a mess by tomorrow!”</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><br />It’s how it goes. You work and things mount up. I make hot cups of coffee put it on the desk and start work then remember the coffee… with now has ice on it! Artists tend to live in degrees of mess, filth and total chaos -- people know where I work is called Room Oblivion.</span></div>
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<br /><span style="color: black;"><img alt="Terry Hooper-Scharf" src="http://www.silbermedia.com/qrd/archives/74-TerryHooper-desk.JPG" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-radius: 5px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 20px; height: 450px; padding: 8px; width: 600px;" /> </span><br /><span style="color: black;"><b><br /></b></span><span style="color: black;">a table..</span><br /><span style="color: black;"><b><br /></b></span><span style="color: black;"><b>QRD</b> – At what point in the artistic process do you work digitally?<br /><br /><b>Terry</b> – I use my digits (I am <i>so</i> clever at times) all the time. No, as I wrote above, I letter my computer and then the scanner to make the PDF. I prefer the ink stains on my hands and fingers and the smell of paper and crisp ink. Digital is a rude word.<br /><br /><b>QRD</b> – What do you think of digital comics and webcomics?<br /><br /><b>Terry</b> – I work too much, so I’ve only seen a few web comics such as the enchanting Donna Barr’s <i>Desert Peach After Dead</i> (which I highly recommend <a href="http://afterdead.thecomicseries.com/" style="color: #7d181e; text-decoration: none;">http://afterdead.thecomicseries.com/</a>)…. web comics are okay if you like them, but I really am the sort of person that will not read comics via the computer. I love books and comics in print.</span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black;">QRD</span></b><span style="color: black;"> – Do you prefer working in color or black and white?<br /><br /><b>Terry</b> – Black and white. For UK weekly comics the format was 79% black and white. I have done some colour, but I prefer black and white -- you see the old Marvel Essential or DC Showcase Presents titles where the art is in black & white and it looks superb. Colour is okay, but hides a lot.<br /><b><br />QRD</b> – How many different people should work on a comic and what should their jobs be?<br /><br /><b>Terry</b> – One. Seriously? If someone can write & draw their own comic and do the covers, then just one. If it’s a writer who cannot draw, then there has to be an artist… who generally does pencils and does not letter… see, we old school were taught to pencil, ink & sometimes letter (mine was too bad) and these days I get looks of shock when I say I pencil, ink, letter by computer, and if I colour a cover I use inks or paints. They keep calling it “old school”, but you had to know your job. “Ken has fallen and broken a finger -- we need pencils fast!” so no problem. “Hey, Ron just got diabetes in his inking fingers!” No problem. You had to be a jack-of-all-trades.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><br />So number of people on a comic varies -- as does any profit from sales when it needs sharing.<br /><b><br />QRD</b> – How do you find collaborators?<br /><br /><b>Terry</b> – I don’t. Not any more. I used to get one artist after another contact me and, quite literally, beg for a script (I used to be a creators agent from 1985-1995) and a project to work on. I used to go through every aspect of a project with them and I got the commitment to draw the series, which would be completed and more sellable to a publisher. I wrote so many scripts that I still find them and can’t remember them. But I also have a huge box full of part or full issue art that was done before the artist either changed their minds because they had no idea how hard it is to draw a comic or they were simply “play-at-being-comic-artists”.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><br />In 2009 I stopped doing scripts for other people -- unless it was a publisher paying. Someone who shall remain nameless, but went on to do work at Marvel, kept pestering for a script. I relented and wrote one and sent it to him. “I’ve changed my mind,” he then wrote back.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><br />There are only two people I’ve cooperated with as writer -- Gavin Stuart Ross, who drew the Chung Ling Soo and Dene Vernon books and Ben R. Dilworth who I have worked on-and-off with since the 1980s. A superb and vastly under-rated artist.</span><br /><span style="color: black;"><br />So I no longer look for collaborators on books.</span><br /><span style="color: black;"><br /></span><span style="color: black;"><b><img alt="The Cross Earths Caper" height="640" id="Image7_img" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4U4RtHpL6ehDMMn_faFQHhx0AYuTKgQefAL53gB7F0Riogy1d308KRu_39_I0wMGMQy3k19k4cpOHAG7N8Ka7q9OjCX_MuMKXtvC3byA-fox9-6fFlU-aRAcn0qf366pdw8INQunDBhWb/s1600-r/CROSS+EARTHS+CAPER+COVER.jpg" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-radius: 5px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 20px; padding: 8px; visibility: visible;" width="452" /> </b></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><b>QRD</b> – How tight do you think a script should be as far as telling the artist what to draw?<br /><br /><b>Terry</b> – I tend to write tight scripts when it comes to dialogue and descriptions of scenes but I always allow an artist I work with a certain amount of a free hand. If action involves something taking place that is important to the plot, I’ll write that tightly; but action scenes apart from “the two fighting move from the castle keep down onto a steep winding stairway” I leave drawing the action scenes to the artist --they have to draw it!</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><b>Below:</b>art by Dean Willetts but colour work by Terry Hooper-Scharf see:<a href="http://hoopercomicart.blogspot.co.uk/2015/04/it-was-cosmic-fulcrum.html" style="color: #7d181e; text-decoration: none;">http://hoopercomicart.blogspot.co.uk/2015/04/it-was-cosmic-fulcrum.html</a></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black;">QRD</span></b><span style="color: black;"> – Do you think it’s important to have a full story arc completely written before starting to draw?<br /><br /><b>Terry</b> – Absolutely! As I wrote above, you absolutely must have that story completely written because artists may need to do research work on things like weaponry, uniforms -- if that is needed I have a big stack of those books so I’ll include references -- or even vehicles or locations mentioned. The artist also needs to see the complete script from start to finish because if she/he sees script #1 then something may be drawn in a certain way, but script #3 gives a description that makes the previous interpretation wrong -- it can happen for various reasons.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><br />An example: I was in a meeting with about twenty artists and writers and we were told the theme of an anthology book. We all had to write our own chapters, but we all had to have an old airship somewhere in the background. I asked, “What type of airship --there are many different types and we all need to be producing the same thing in our individual chapters?” Without hesitation the editor waved his hand and said “We’ll sort that out after all the chapters are in!” Now that made no sense. He should have decided the type of airship and supplied a copy illo to each of us, but he was saying “draw it all and you can change the airship to what I decide later” -- and this was on a tight deadline. A lot of people who have never worked in comics like to pretend they are "editors"<b>*</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><br />So full story and all the reference the artist will need.<br /><br /><b>QRD</b> – What comic book person would you be most flattered to be compared to?<br /><br /><b>Terry</b> – I seriously cannot answer that. It’s been said over-&-over that I have no ego to speak of. With comics I do the work that needs doing. My artistic influences come from all over -- Europe, the United States, UK artists and even the Spanish artists that worked for the UK industry. We should -- should -- have our own individual style as writers to a degree, but as artists definitely our own styles.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><br />I think it utter egotism and arrogance to say or write “I’m more a Sal Buscema type artist” or “Well, I like to think I draw more like Gene Colan”. I’ve had young artists say, “I’m going for a Dave Gibbons look to the art,” or a Finch style and I say, “NO! Draw in your own style & unless it is essential to the book you are working on, develop your own style!”</span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black;">QRD</span></b><span style="color: black;"> – What do your friends and family think of your comics?<br /><br /><b>Terry</b> – Well, my main supporters were my grandparents, who are long dead now but they used to encourage me to draw and -- to my utter embarrassment -- tell people how good I was. My parents are dead and what’s left of my family I never get feedback from about my comics. </span><br /><span style="color: black;"><br />I think artists or writers who have partners who support them and realise being a creative person you need to concentrate and be left alone a lot of the time and you’ll be very messy, miss meals, or leave them til they are cold -- and still want to live with them -- they are very lucky.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmr0cFvDOCZGPWCaQrKblQTr1l-Ct-VcWgmHKAn6IFb1eI4tCWxUs3ZBRMSfI7rN6coB5c-sigtuqbYeTthbszdjC70G3V2cQysSVzuyJSpnzYLBZsOeDIUTse4UgYI1kZdkvd5Z7OIBbq/s1600/cbo+GREEN+SKIES+001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="color: #9f4b00; line-height: 22.4px; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmr0cFvDOCZGPWCaQrKblQTr1l-Ct-VcWgmHKAn6IFb1eI4tCWxUs3ZBRMSfI7rN6coB5c-sigtuqbYeTthbszdjC70G3V2cQysSVzuyJSpnzYLBZsOeDIUTse4UgYI1kZdkvd5Z7OIBbq/s640/cbo+GREEN+SKIES+001.jpg" style="border: none; position: relative;" width="451" /></a><br /><b>QRD</b> – What do you think of superheroes?<br /><br /><b>Terry</b> – Real life ones or in comics? I’ve met some of the “real life” UK superheroes and they are lovely, but I wouldn’t trust them to cross the road. Comic book super heroes I love. I’ve been collecting <i>The Avengers</i> and<i>Fantastic Four</i> & <i>Justice League</i> & so on since the 1960s (no new Marvel or DC, though). So long as people remember that super heroes are not all comics are about, then no problem -- there are many great indie titles out there covering many genres. People need to realise that and support indie publishers.<br /><br /><b>QRD</b> – Marvel or DC?<br /><b><br />Terry</b> – Up until about 2005 I was a Marvelite from age 6, so a lot of my life invested in Marvel comics and characters. I did read <i>JLS</i> -- loved the <i>JLA/JSA</i> team ups, read quite a lot of 1980s DC books. Over all it used to be Marvel.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRvPrNT2C621p6llsyUPBP5JnWgJKPIA9LG0EHWWDsTmhlR1v6Oia-YEsyufzIz7aDvg1l2xukKaNY7ETv1AzMKhpBIDVr4sKOLgOTOwIDBjfRor5V-FuftPg-1YpDe2Gdu3ve-366L5WG/s1600/cbo+GREEN+SKIES+002.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="color: #9f4b00; line-height: 22.4px; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRvPrNT2C621p6llsyUPBP5JnWgJKPIA9LG0EHWWDsTmhlR1v6Oia-YEsyufzIz7aDvg1l2xukKaNY7ETv1AzMKhpBIDVr4sKOLgOTOwIDBjfRor5V-FuftPg-1YpDe2Gdu3ve-366L5WG/s640/cbo+GREEN+SKIES+002.jpg" style="border: none; position: relative;" width="452" /></a><br /><b>QRD</b> – What comic characters other than your own would you like to work with?<br /><b><br />Terry</b> – Only if the original characters not the rebooted & rebooted & rebooted ones… uh, I was going to say JSA since Avengers will never happen (like JSA would!). Hmm. I have to say a good few of the old US Golden Age characters -- not Timely or National. So much potential there. Or the more obscure Marvel characters like Wood God and so on.<br /><br /><b>QRD</b> – Ideally would you self-publish?<br /><br /><b>Terry</b> – I do.</span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black;">QRD</span></b><span style="color: black;"> – What conventions do you try to attend and why?<br /><br /><b>Terry</b> – Conventions in the UK tend to have the same old guests, exhibitors, & creators which is stale. I’d like to, one year, go over to Europe for a couple conventions -- maybe Erlangen in Germany. Not to forget the Netherlands. I would certainly love to go to a couple of small US comic conventions… but money!<br /><br /><b>QRD</b> – How do you feel about doing work for anthologies?<br /><br /><b>Terry</b> – Done that all my life. For other people, if I get paid I love them!<br /><br /><b>QRD</b> – What do you do to promote your books?<br /><br /><b>Terry</b> – Wow. YouTube videos, postings on Comic Bits Online (almost 2 million views so far and 2-3000 views a day to which you can add almost 2 million on Google+) and Twitter, Pinterest, Facebook -- I have Yahoo groups I post to and various blogs, so I do a lot!!<br /><br /><b>QRD</b> – Do you think your comics are well suited to comic shops or would sell better elsewhere?<br /><br /><b>Terry</b> – Comic shops are not interested. It doesn’t matter if there are super heroes, horror, or whatever. They are indie, black and white and NOT DC, Marvel, Dark Horse, or Image. Shops don’t care, so I no longer consider them.<br /><br /><b>QRD</b> – What other medium would you like to see some of your comics made into (television, film, games, action figures, etc.)?<br /><b><br />Terry</b> – I wrote scripts for a couple of UK TV series but they never came to be as it was at the time how TV was run changed –de-regulization. I worked with an animator in South America on a project called <i>The Paranormals</i>, but I think that studio went bust. Not lucky, am I? I think an animated series where gradually a rotating cast of characters could be used. TV -- well, how many British or European live action shows are there? It’s very unlikely but a bit of fantasy now and then helps!<br /><br /><b>QRD</b> – Do you consider yourself a comic collector or a comic reader or both?<br /><br /><b>Terry</b> – I read comics & I try to find missing back issues and whereas I cannot afford issues 1-60 of Marvel’s<i>The Avengers</i>, it doesn’t matter as the Masterworks editions fill in the gaps. It isn’t about value, bagging, boarding & boxing or even having comics graded. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><br />I think that, so long as postal services do not get any more expensive, comic buyers for indies & small press will do business online unless some distributor comes in and treats us fairly without robbing us -- and they can get stores to treat these books with respect. I would like to see that, but will it happen?<br /><br /><b>QRD</b> – What would you like to see more people doing with comics?<br /><b><br />Terry</b> – Making more for youngsters, to get the next generation of comic readers in. Not Marvel or DC, but indie publishers need to be trying to do this, but most want to publish exactly what they want -- “Ain’t our business to bring in new kid readers!” But it is. In the UK there are far more small press events organised locally, but they tend to all be people who know people & friends -- almost little cliques. These could do a lot more to bring readers in; but, as I wrote, most small pressers have never read comics. At one event no one knew who Jack Kirby was. No one knew of Steve Ditko. John Byrne? No. Stan Lee…”Oh, that old guy from<i>The Big Bang Theory</i>!”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #494949;"><img alt="The Hooper Interviews" height="400" src="http://static.lulu.com/browse/product_thumbnail.php?productId=11914778&resolution=320" width="281" /></span><br /><br /><b style="color: #494949;"><i>The Hooper Interviews! </i></b><br /><br /><b><i> </i></b>To celebrate, at the time of publication, over 25 years of interviewing comic creators -writers, artists and publishers- this 365 pages book was produced.<br /><br />Interviewees included Yishan Li, Marv Wolfman, Dave Ryan, John Cooper, Mike Western, Donna Barr, Roberta Gregory, Sonia Leong, Emma Vieceli, Pekka A. Manninen, Alan Class, Karen Rubins, Kate Glasheen, Ron Fortier, Jon Haward, Franco Francavilla, Rick Geary, Tania Del Rio, The Etherington Brothers, Olivier Cadic (Cinebook the 9th Art), Holly Golightly and MANY others.<br /><br />Profusely illustrated with art and photographs!<br /><br />Reduced in price until October to £16.80 -an odd price but it's what the printer and lulu.com earn -I get zilch!<br /><br /><a href="http://www.lulu.com/shop/terry-hooper-scharf/the-hooper-interviews/paperback/product-22078000.html" style="color: #005e9c; text-decoration: none;">http://www.lulu.com/shop/terry-hooper-scharf/the-hooper-interviews/paperback/product-22078000.html</a><br /><br /><br />All Black Tower comic albums (that is A4 format) are in black & white. Once you've had black and white you won't go back to colour, baby.<br /><br />BTCG has specialised in presenting original material covering super heroes, crime, adventure, sci fi, horror as well as illustrated prose -not to mention ground breaking books on "world mysteries" and wildlife. Oh, and even a huge book of interviews with comic creators and publishers.<br /><br />All the books are, naturally, available for overseas licence -but we cannot translate work: that will be up to any licensed publisher.<br /><br />What follows is a brief glimpse at some books but you can visit the online store to see more details and books at:<br /><br /><h3 style="margin: 0px; position: relative;">
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<br /><span style="color: #494949;"><img alt="Default Logo" id="page_logo" src="http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/as/images/105/338/w100-338105-logo.JPG?20150224132825" /></span><br /><br /><i><b>To contact me please check out "About" at the top of the page -thanks! </b></i><br /><br /><i><b> ****************************************************************************</b></i><br /><br /><i><b>Black Tower Comics </b></i>began in 1984 as a Small Press publisher of A5 (US -Digest size) titles such as <b><i>Adventure</i></b>,<i><b>Presents,Windows </b></i>and <i><b>Hanley's Garage. </b></i>Then came the news, reviews, previews and interviews publication backed up by the mart and mail order service -<i><b>Zine Zone </b></i>(later <i><b>Zine Zone International</b></i>).<br /><br />In 2009, with the innovation in publishing of Print On Demand (POD), Black Tower jumped in head first!<br /><br />One of the first titles to see print in the new comic album format (A4) was <i><b>The Bat Triumphant!</b></i> This saw the complete story, begun in Black Tower Adventure vol. 1. William A. Ward's long lost 1940s character once again saw print as he fought a host of enemies in an attempt to reclaim his homeland.<br /><br /><br /><span style="color: #494949;"><img alt="THE BAT TRIUMPHANT!" src="http://static.lulu.com/browse/product_thumbnail.php?productId=12046091&resolution=320" /></span><br /><br />And while The Bat may have fought fist and nail to reclaim his homeland, another 1940s Ward creation, <i><b>Krakos the Egyptian</b></i>, seemed far from willing to claim a new Egyptian Empire as promised to him by the Gods. Tackling a number of foes and even encountering the Many-Eyed One, Krakos turned his back on the gods and the final panel of <i><b>Krakos -Sands Of Terror</b></i>, delivered a true twist!<br /><br /><span style="color: #494949;"><img alt="Krakos -Sands Of Terror!" src="http://static.lulu.com/browse/product_thumbnail.php?productId=11921739&resolution=320" /></span><br /><br /><br />Of course, the flag-ship title had to return! And so <i><b>Black Tower Adventure</b></i> -eventually reaching new heights when the legendary Ben Dilworth jumped on board! Volume 2 consisted of ten issues. Just look at these covers....<br /><br /><span style="color: #494949;"><img alt="Black Tower Adventure 1" src="http://static.lulu.com/browse/product_thumbnail.php?productId=21175829&resolution=320" /><img alt="Black Tower Adventure 2" src="http://static.lulu.com/browse/product_thumbnail.php?productId=21175857&resolution=320" /><img alt="BLACK TOWER ADVENTURE 3" src="http://static.lulu.com/browse/product_thumbnail.php?productId=13837179&resolution=320" /><img alt="Black Tower Adventure 4" src="http://static.lulu.com/browse/product_thumbnail.php?productId=14304136&resolution=320" /><img alt="Black Tower Adventure 5" src="http://static.lulu.com/browse/product_thumbnail.php?productId=15534161&resolution=320" /><img alt="Black Tower Adventure 6" src="http://static.lulu.com/browse/product_thumbnail.php?productId=16069877&resolution=320" /><img alt="ADVENTURE 7" src="http://static.lulu.com/browse/product_thumbnail.php?productId=17143438&resolution=320" /><img alt="Black Tower Adventure 8" src="http://static.lulu.com/browse/product_thumbnail.php?productId=20233334&resolution=320" /><img alt="BLACK TOWER ADVENTURE 9" src="http://static.lulu.com/browse/product_thumbnail.php?productId=20675547&resolution=320" /><img alt="Black Tower Adventure 10" src="http://static.lulu.com/browse/product_thumbnail.php?productId=21116296&resolution=320" /></span><br /><br />And, with something like 40 years worth of files and investigation reports could all that much delving into UFOs, lake and sea creatures and many other mysteries not result in a book or two...or three? <i><b>Some Things Strange</b></i> & <i><b>Sinister, Some More Things Strange & Sinister</b></i> as well as <i><b>Pursuing The Strange and Weird: A Naturalist's Viewpoint</b></i> set a precedence.<br /><br />Whereas for decades those involved in "UFOlogy", "Cryptozoology" and "Forteana" declared many mysteries, that photographs were lost "to history" and so on, these three books swiped away the false claims. Alleged lost photographs -found. 'Mysteries' solved by doing actual research work and reading the sources -something others had never done.<br /><span style="color: #494949;"><img alt="Some Things Strange & Sinister" src="http://static.lulu.com/browse/product_thumbnail.php?productId=14958906&resolution=320" /><img alt="Some More Things Strange & Sinister" src="http://static.lulu.com/browse/product_thumbnail.php?productId=18763730&resolution=320" /><img alt="Pursuing The Strange & Weird:A Naturalists Viewpoint" src="http://static.lulu.com/browse/product_thumbnail.php?productId=21307125&resolution=320" /></span><br /><br />And, of course, mention natural history and Black Tower Books broke new ground with that in <i><b>The Red Paper: Canids.</b></i><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: #494949;"><img alt="The Red Paper: CANIDS" src="http://static.lulu.com/browse/product_thumbnail.php?productId=22027457&resolution=320" /></span><br /><br />But not all the prose books covered mysteries and wildlife.<br /><br /><br />And if there is one thing "Herr Professor" loves it is discovering and presenting long lost UK Golden Age (1939-1951) comic strips and characters from publishers such as Gerald Swan, Foldes, Denis M. Reader, Cartoon Art Productions and others.<br /><br />Scanned and restored as best as can be considering the poor print quality of the rationing years -especially red, orange, yellow, blue and purple ink printing!<br /><br />Ace Hart The Atomic Man! The Tornado! TNT Tom! Dene Vernon! Acromaid! Cat-Girl! Bring 'Em Back Hank! Robert Lovett:Back From The Dead and so many other action heroes and humour strip characters -William A. Ward, Jock McCaill and a host of known and unknown creators contribute -either in single volume " <i><b>Black Tower Gold</b></i>" albums or all six collected into the 400+ pager -<i><b>The Ultimate British Golden Age Collection</b></i>!<br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: #494949;"><img alt="The Ultimate British Comics Gold Collection" height="320" src="http://static.lulu.com/browse/product_thumbnail.php?productId=22041282&resolution=320" width="224" /><img alt="Black Tower British Gold Collection 1" src="http://static.lulu.com/browse/product_thumbnail.php?productId=12183527&resolution=320" /><img alt="Black Tower British Gold Collection 2" src="http://static.lulu.com/browse/product_thumbnail.php?productId=12183569&resolution=320" /><img alt="Black Tower British Gold Collection 3" src="http://static.lulu.com/browse/product_thumbnail.php?productId=12183586&resolution=320" /><img alt="UK GOLD COLLECTION 4" src="http://static.lulu.com/browse/product_thumbnail.php?productId=12184087&resolution=320" /><img alt="Black Tower Gold 5:Back From The Dead" src="http://static.lulu.com/browse/product_thumbnail.php?productId=12184231&resolution=320" /><img alt="black tower gold 6" src="http://static.lulu.com/browse/product_thumbnail.php?productId=16249586&resolution=320" /></span><br /><br />Another great love is Centaur Comics from the United States. Right at the very start of the American Golden Age of Comics Centaur had creators who were ahead of the others! Before Plastic Man there was <i>Plymo</i>! Before The Human Bomb there was <i>TNT Todd! </i>Before Green Arrow and waaaaaaay before Hawkeye there was the mysterious red hooded archer called <i>The Arrow</i>! And, to just break your comic mind world there was even a <i>Black Panther</i> -decades before Kirby came up with his character of the same name.<br /><br />The Eye Sees All. The Owl. The Iron Skull. Amazing Man. The King of Darkness. The Invisible Terror. The Blue Lady. The Shark. Mini Midget & Kitty. Mighty Man. Super Anne. The company may have been short-lived but it's characters -oh boy!<br /><br />The two volume<i><b> Centaur Heroes Collection</b></i> has been compiled into one sweet 140 page comic collection!<br /><span style="color: #494949;"><img alt="The Ultimate Centaur Collection 2011" src="http://static.lulu.com/browse/product_thumbnail.php?productId=17977569&resolution=320" /></span><br /><br />Horror. Ghost stories. The twist-in-the tale. Did you think that a publisher who is a big horror comic/film fan would ignore these?<br /><br />Nope. Each year since 2010, BTCG has published a <b><i>Tales Of Terror</i></b> anthology album and 2014s included some fun and spooky lost Swan Comic strips. I mean how can you go wrong -even Ben Dilworth is in these!<br /><br /><span style="color: #494949;"> <img alt="Tower Tales Of Terror" src="http://static.lulu.com/browse/product_thumbnail.php?productId=11921861&resolution=320" /><img alt="Tales Of Terror 2" src="http://static.lulu.com/browse/product_thumbnail.php?productId=12674020&resolution=320" /><img alt="TALES OF TERROR III" src="http://static.lulu.com/browse/product_thumbnail.php?productId=18687932&resolution=320" /><img alt="Tales Of Terror 4" src="http://static.lulu.com/browse/product_thumbnail.php?productId=21159650&resolution=320" /></span><br /><br />The Church Of England has it's own basher of dark forces in the Reverend Merriwether -"God's Demon0-Thumper" as the press billed him. From an ancient Egyptian demon to a village of the damned and Varney the Vampyre, werwolves and a final confrontation with Satan himself -Merriwether pulls no punches and offers no compromise. And in those last few seconds between life and death, Merriwether's mind recalls past cases -thanks to Ben Dilworththe Tall Man of Osaka.<br /><br /><i><b>Merriwether: God's Demon Thumper</b></i> and <i><b>Merriwether: The Test Of Satan</b></i> are available as individual comic albums or in one swanky book <i><b>The Collected Merriwether: God's Demon Thumper.</b></i><br /><br /><span style="color: #494949;"> <img alt="Merriwether:God's Demon-Thumper" src="http://static.lulu.com/browse/product_thumbnail.php?productId=12101586&resolution=320" /><img alt="Merriwether:The Test Of Satan" src="http://static.lulu.com/browse/product_thumbnail.php?productId=12987682&resolution=320" /><img alt="Merriwether: Gods Demon Thumper" src="http://static.lulu.com/browse/product_thumbnail.php?productId=21160008&resolution=320" /></span><br /><br />Oh, did I forget to mention Dene Vernon -British comics' first investigator of the supernatural and strange mysteries? I did? 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Chung Ling Soo's police "counter-foil" isnone other than old London "Jack" (police man) Inspector Wilberforce and when Dilworth says "Here's a Wilberforce one-off: PUBLISH IT!" you do not argue!<br /><br /><span style="color: #494949;"><img alt="Wilberforce" src="http://static.lulu.com/browse/product_thumbnail.php?productId=21142976&resolution=320" /></span><br /><br /><br /><br />And did you know you can be a Gold Master of Japanese Haiku? Well, neither did I -but guess what? Ben Dilworth is such a master and his <i><b>Osaka Brutal</b></i> features his Haiku in English!<br /><br /><span style="color: #494949;"> <img alt="Osaka Brutal" src="http://static.lulu.com/browse/product_thumbnail.php?productId=16356832&resolution=320" /></span><br /><br />Old saleman that he is, Dilworth just keeps on going. He produced Aesop's Fables -a darker version of the childrens tales and then went on to write two well illustrated prose albums looking at spirits and demons -<i><b>Dilworth's Japanese Yokai</b></i> and <i><b>Dilworth's</b></i><i><b>Western Yokai</b></i>. <i><b>Osaka</b></i> and the <i><b>Yokai</b></i> books were combined with <i><b>Aesop's Fables </b></i>into the one volume <i><b>The Collected Ben R. Dilworth</b></i> -though the single volumes are also still available.<br /><br /><span style="color: #494949;"><img alt="The Collected Ben R. 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Horror comics yes but also some nice illustrated prose from Dilworth in...<b><i>Dilworth's Horror & Ghost Stories </i></b>but for the connoisseur those stories were collected together with the Phantom Detective comic strips into <i><b>The Complete Phantom Detective</b></i>!</div>
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<span class="expandable-text">It begins slowly. It always does. It's a deception that everything in the world is as it should be and that never changes.</span></div>
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A war between the Dark Old Gods and the pantheons that followed! </div>
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II-The Cross Earths Caper</h3>
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Interviewees included Yishan Li, Marv Wolfman, Dave Ryan,
John Cooper, Mike Western, Donna Barr, Roberta Gregory, Sonia Leong,
Emma Vieceli, Pekka A. Manninen, Alan Class, Karen Rubins, Kate
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<i><b>Black Tower Comics </b></i>began in 1984 as a Small Press publisher of A5 (US -Digest size) titles such as <b><i>Adventure</i></b>,<i><b>Presents,Windows </b></i>and <i><b>Hanley's Garage. </b></i>Then came the news, reviews, previews and interviews publication backed up by the mart and mail order service -<i><b>Zine Zone </b></i>(later <i><b>Zine Zone International</b></i>).<br />
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One of the first titles to see print in the new comic album format (A4) was <i><b>The Bat Triumphant!</b></i>
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William A. Ward's long lost 1940s character once again saw print as he
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seemed far from willing to claim a new Egyptian Empire as promised to
him by the Gods. Tackling a number of foes and even encountering the
Many-Eyed One, Krakos turned his back on the gods and the final panel of
<i><b>Krakos -Sands Of Terror</b></i>, delivered a true twist!<br />
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And, with something like 40 years worth of files and investigation
reports could all that much delving into UFOs, lake and sea creatures
and many other mysteries not result in a book or two...or three? <i><b>Some Things Strange</b></i> & <i><b>Sinister, Some More Things Strange & Sinister</b></i> as well as <i><b>Pursuing The Strange and Weird: A Naturalist's Viewpoint</b></i> set a precedence.<br />
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Whereas for decades those involved in "UFOlogy", "Cryptozoology" and
"Forteana" declared many mysteries, that photographs were lost "to
history" and so on, these three books swiped away the false claims.
Alleged lost photographs -found. 'Mysteries' solved by doing actual
research work and reading the sources -something others had never done.<br />
<img alt="Some Things Strange & Sinister" src="http://static.lulu.com/browse/product_thumbnail.php?productId=14958906&resolution=320" /><img alt="Some More Things Strange & Sinister" src="http://static.lulu.com/browse/product_thumbnail.php?productId=18763730&resolution=320" /><img alt="Pursuing The Strange & Weird:A Naturalists Viewpoint" src="http://static.lulu.com/browse/product_thumbnail.php?productId=21307125&resolution=320" /><br />
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And, of course, mention natural history and Black Tower Books broke new ground with that in <i><b>The Red Paper: Canids.</b></i><br />
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But not all the prose books covered mysteries and wildlife.<br />
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And if there is one thing "Herr Professor" loves it is discovering and
presenting long lost UK Golden Age (1939-1951) comic strips and
characters from publishers such as Gerald Swan, Foldes, Denis M. Reader,
Cartoon Art Productions and others.<br />
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Scanned and restored as best as can be considering the poor print
quality of the rationing years -especially red, orange, yellow, blue and
purple ink printing!<br />
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Ace Hart The Atomic Man! The Tornado! TNT Tom! Dene Vernon!
Acromaid! Cat-Girl! Bring 'Em Back Hank! Robert Lovett:Back From The
Dead and so many other action heroes and humour strip characters
-William A. Ward, Jock McCaill and a host of known and unknown creators
contribute -either in single volume " <i><b>Black Tower Gold</b></i>" albums or all six collected into the 400+ pager -<i><b>The Ultimate British Golden Age Collection</b></i>!<br />
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<img alt="The Ultimate British Comics Gold Collection" height="320" src="http://static.lulu.com/browse/product_thumbnail.php?productId=22041282&resolution=320" width="224" /><img alt="Black Tower British Gold Collection 1" src="http://static.lulu.com/browse/product_thumbnail.php?productId=12183527&resolution=320" /><img alt="Black Tower British Gold Collection 2" src="http://static.lulu.com/browse/product_thumbnail.php?productId=12183569&resolution=320" /><img alt="Black Tower British Gold Collection 3" src="http://static.lulu.com/browse/product_thumbnail.php?productId=12183586&resolution=320" /><img alt="UK GOLD COLLECTION 4" src="http://static.lulu.com/browse/product_thumbnail.php?productId=12184087&resolution=320" /><img alt="Black Tower Gold 5:Back From The Dead" src="http://static.lulu.com/browse/product_thumbnail.php?productId=12184231&resolution=320" /><img alt="black tower gold 6" src="http://static.lulu.com/browse/product_thumbnail.php?productId=16249586&resolution=320" /><br />
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Another great love is Centaur Comics from the United States. Right at
the very start of the American Golden Age of Comics Centaur had creators
who were ahead of the others! Before Plastic Man there was <i>Plymo</i>! Before The Human Bomb there was <i>TNT Todd! </i>Before Green Arrow and waaaaaaay before Hawkeye there was the mysterious red hooded archer called <i>The Arrow</i>! And, to just break your comic mind world there was even a <i>Black Panther</i> -decades before Kirby came up with his character of the same name.<br />
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The Eye Sees All. The Owl. The Iron Skull. Amazing Man. The King of
Darkness. The Invisible Terror. The Blue Lady. The Shark. Mini Midget
& Kitty. Mighty Man. Super Anne. The company may have been
short-lived but it's characters -oh boy!<br />
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The two volume<i><b> Centaur Heroes Collection</b></i> has been compiled into one sweet 140 page comic collection!<br />
<img alt="The Ultimate Centaur Collection 2011" src="http://static.lulu.com/browse/product_thumbnail.php?productId=17977569&resolution=320" /><br />
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Horror. Ghost stories. The twist-in-the tale. Did you think that a
publisher who is a big horror comic/film fan would ignore these?<br />
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Nope. Each year since 2010, BTCG has published a <b><i>Tales Of Terror</i></b>
anthology album and 2014s included some fun and spooky lost Swan Comic
strips. I mean how can you go wrong -even Ben Dilworth is in these!<br />
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<img alt="Tower Tales Of Terror" src="http://static.lulu.com/browse/product_thumbnail.php?productId=11921861&resolution=320" /><img alt="Tales Of Terror 2" src="http://static.lulu.com/browse/product_thumbnail.php?productId=12674020&resolution=320" /><img alt="TALES OF TERROR III" src="http://static.lulu.com/browse/product_thumbnail.php?productId=18687932&resolution=320" /><img alt="Tales Of Terror 4" src="http://static.lulu.com/browse/product_thumbnail.php?productId=21159650&resolution=320" /><br />
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The Church Of England has it's own basher of dark forces in the Reverend
Merriwether -"God's Demon0-Thumper" as the press billed him. From an
ancient Egyptian demon to a village of the damned and Varney the
Vampyre, werwolves and a final confrontation with Satan himself
-Merriwether pulls no punches and offers no compromise. And in those
last few seconds between life and death, Merriwether's mind recalls past
cases -thanks to Ben Dilworththe Tall Man of Osaka. <br />
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<i><b>Merriwether: God's Demon Thumper</b></i> and <i><b>Merriwether: The Test Of Satan</b></i> are available as individual comic albums or in one swanky book <i><b>The Collected Merriwether: God's Demon Thumper.</b></i> <br />
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<img alt="Merriwether:God's Demon-Thumper" src="http://static.lulu.com/browse/product_thumbnail.php?productId=12101586&resolution=320" /><img alt="Merriwether:The Test Of Satan" src="http://static.lulu.com/browse/product_thumbnail.php?productId=12987682&resolution=320" /><img alt="Merriwether: Gods Demon Thumper" src="http://static.lulu.com/browse/product_thumbnail.php?productId=21160008&resolution=320" /><br />
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Oh, did I forget to mention Dene Vernon -British comics' first
investigator of the supernatural and strange mysteries? I did?
Unbelievable since Gavin Stuart Ross drew the 1948 based <i><b>Dene Vernon: The Thing Below!</b></i><br />
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<i><b> </b></i><img alt="Dene Vernon:The Thing Below" src="http://static.lulu.com/browse/product_thumbnail.php?productId=21918919&resolution=320" /><br />
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And did you know Ross also drew the two adventures of Victorian mystery man Chung Ling Soo? <i><b>Chung Ling Soo: The Curse Of The Jade Dragon </b></i>and <i><b>Chung Ling Soo: The Case Of The Thames Serpent</b></i>
were two cracking tales of magic, adventure, murder and deception
-still available as single comic albums or collected together to form <i><b>The Adventures Of Chung Ling Soo!</b></i><br />
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<img alt="Chung Ling Soo 1" src="http://static.lulu.com/browse/product_thumbnail.php?productId=12991021&resolution=320" /><img alt="Chung Ling Soo Man Of Mystery" src="http://static.lulu.com/browse/product_thumbnail.php?productId=20001818&resolution=320" /><br />
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Ben Dilworth is no slouch either! Chung Ling Soo's police
"counter-foil" isnone other than old London "Jack" (police man)
Inspector Wilberforce and when Dilworth says "Here's a Wilberforce
one-off: PUBLISH IT!" you do not argue!<br />
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And did you know you can be a Gold Master of Japanese Haiku? Well,
neither did I -but guess what? Ben Dilworth is such a master and his <i><b>Osaka Brutal</b></i> features his Haiku in English!<br />
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Old saleman that he is, Dilworth just keeps on going. He produced
Aesop's Fables -a darker version of the childrens tales and then went on
to write two well illustrated prose albums looking at spirits and
demons -<i><b>Dilworth's Japanese Yokai</b></i> and <i><b>Dilworth's</b></i> <i><b>Western Yokai</b></i>. <i><b>Osaka</b></i> and the <i><b>Yokai</b></i> books were combined with <i><b>Aesop's Fables </b></i>into the one volume <i><b>The Collected Ben R. Dilworth</b></i> -though the single volumes are also still available.<br />
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<img alt="The Collected Ben R. Dilworth" src="http://static.lulu.com/browse/product_thumbnail.php?productId=21848146&resolution=320" /><img alt="Dilworth's Japanese Yokai" src="http://static.lulu.com/browse/product_thumbnail.php?productId=15386437&resolution=320" /><img alt="DILWORTH WESTERN YOKAI" src="http://static.lulu.com/browse/product_thumbnail.php?productId=13211537&resolution=320" /><img alt="Dilworths Aesop's Fables" src="http://static.lulu.com/browse/product_thumbnail.php?productId=16119696&resolution=320" /><br />
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Horror comics yes but also some nice illustrated prose from Dilworth in...<b><i>Dilworth's Horror & Ghost Stories </i></b>but for the connoisseur those stories were collected together with the Phantom Detective comic strips into <i><b>The Complete Phantom Detective</b></i>! </div>
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And could anyone forget the sensational <i><b>Iron Warrior Versus Big Bong:When Giants Fought</b></i>? But add to that the various Iron Warrior strips from Adventure and you get <i><b>The Iron Warrior Collection -When Giants Fought! </b></i>In
the 1940s, William A. Ward's creation was to be the most graphically
violent comic strip seen until the 1970s. That is some legacy. It
continues....with a touch of fun!<br />
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<img alt="The Iron Warrior Vs Big Bong" src="http://static.lulu.com/browse/product_thumbnail.php?productId=14441240&resolution=320" /><img alt="THE IRON WARRIOR COLLECTION" src="http://static.lulu.com/browse/product_thumbnail.php?productId=21157919&resolution=320" /><br />
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In case you are wondering, yes, obviously there are super heroes. Mix
in ancient pantheons of gods, giant robot, alien invasion, Lovecraftian
dark ones and so much more that the book runs to over 320 pages then you
have part 1 of Terry Hooper-Scharf's <b><i>Invasion Earth Trilogy"</i></b> or as it is titled <i><b>Return Of The Gods: Twilight Of The Super Heroes!</b></i>
And epic ending with the words: "Dr Morg has killed us all" -and if you
have never read the mind altering counter actuality that is <i><b>The Dr Morg Trilogy</b></i> you may be saying "What? Who-?"<br />
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And part 2 of the trilogy <i><b>The Cross Earths Caper</b></i> ought to get you in the mood for 2015s big 31st Anniversary third part of the trilogy <i><b>The Green Skies.</b></i><br />
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<i><b> </b></i><img alt="The Return Of The Gods:Twilight of the Super Heroes" src="http://static.lulu.com/browse/product_thumbnail.php?productId=20981003&resolution=320" /><img alt="THE CROSS EARTHS CAPER" src="http://static.lulu.com/browse/product_thumbnail.php?productId=21657095&resolution=320" /><img alt="Journey Of The ID:The Dr Morg Trilogy" src="http://static.lulu.com/browse/product_thumbnail.php?productId=21767725&resolution=320" /><br />
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If you pass the ESTC (Epileptic Seizure Test Cover) on Dr Morg well, you
are fit and healthy enough to read it and to check out all the Black
Tower Comics and Books at the online store -see why we are the UKs
largest publisher of Independent Comics! <br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">In case anyone out there does not know
I'll quote Wikipedia for you (it's okay -there is no leaked information
here so we ought to be safe!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>"Young All-Stars</i> was a follow-up
to DC's popular Golden Age-themed series All Star Squadron, which Roy
Thomas also wrote. The intention was to pick up that series' storyline
after the events of the <i>Crisis on Infinite Earths</i> series, which necessitated writing Superman, Wonder Woman and Batman
out of the original series' history since their World War II versions
now no longer existed. The characters of Iron Munro, Fury, and Flying
Fox were meant to essentially replace those heroes in the new
continuity. The new series wasn't as popular as the earlier series and
was canceled after thirty-one regular issues and one annual."</span></div>
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I've mentioned All Star Squadron here: <a href="http://hoopercomicart.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/all-star-squadron-invaders-machine-man.html">http://hoopercomicart.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/all-star-squadron-invaders-machine-man.html</a><br />
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There was another post about the DC Showcase Presents All Star Squadron collection but I cannot find that! <br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">The <b>Young All-Stars</b> were created by Roy Thomas and his wife, Dann along with Michael Bair and introduced in <b><i>Young All-Stars</i></b> #1, June, 1987.</span></div>
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Arn "Iron" Munro was based on a pulp fiction character of the 1930s and
is, to all intents and purposes, the Superman of the YAS. Flying Fox
was quite obviously Batman -a flying 'fox' being...a bat. And as for
their version of Wonder Woman well it was blatantly the Fury.<br />
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The first issue saw the Golden Age character TNT killed by Axis Amerika
and his side-kick, Dynamite, was rescued by Munro. I really do hate to
write this but there is one very big reason WHY this was less than
successful. All Star Squadron had artists such as Joe Kubert, Jerry
Ordway, Don Heck, Carmine Infantino, Don Newton, Rich Buckler, Wayne
Boring and they even roped in Todd McFarlane, George Perez, Tony
DeZuniga<span style="font-size: x-small;"> to work on the series.</span></div>
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The above, final issue cover. Look at it: cramped and rather messy. It's all over the place and therein lay the problem.<br />
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The stories in this series started out okay even if there was none of
the "emotional attachment" to characters. They were new. And, like
John Byrne did with <i><b>Alpha Flight</b></i> rather successfully, one of the newcomers was introduced to fill in their past each issue. Did it work with YAS? Maybe 50-50.<br />
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But then when all the introductions were out of the way you still had to
deal with the artwork which at times was too painful to look at.
Anatomy could be out and....well, it just was not good. And as the
series progressed it got worse.<br />
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I've just managed to complete my 31 issue run of the title and I thought
#30 was badly drawn and the story seemed a mess -I really did check
three times to make sure that it was Roy Thomas writing!<br />
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Then came the final all-out issue #31. Bad. The story just seemed to be
all over the place. In fact, I have to write that it just plain stank.
"I've killed my son, Arn Munro!" Arn Munro appears. "I didn't kill you
but I told both sides I did so not to lose face!" Followed by a few "I
really <u><i>will</i></u> kill you this time!" At which point I screamed "WELL KILL THE FECKER THEN!!"<br />
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How did they stop the unstoppable super Amazonian type natives? They
caught the common cold and started dying because they had been isolated
from the outside world. But it was so badly written. And Arn Munro's
dad the super man -how did he get defeated? He didn't. He flew down an
industrial chimney that super exploded (of course). Anyone check? No.<br />
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And the YAS? Well they got incorporated into the All Star Squadron and there it ended. <br />
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And what did not help was ugly -<u><i>ugly</i></u>- art.<br />
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I am not kidding. I <u><i><b>loved</b></i></u> All Star Squadron (even
though you could not abbreviate it as with the JSA or JLA because All
Star Squadron....ASS) but YAS started promisingly and ended in a slow
nose dive of death into a paper shredder.<br />
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Like Marvel Comics, DC hit the 1990s like an acid-tripping hippy in a vat of molasses and bricks.<br />
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I have to think that Roy Thomas had seen one of the best comic series he
had written -outside of the Avengers - the All Star Squadron ripped out
from under him and sinking all the planned stories (yeah, DC apparently
promised ASS could continue as it was ) and then he has to rush
together a new World War II series but he was not getting the top
artists any more that made All Star Squadron so good. No Ordway. No
Buckler.<br />
<br />
Was he so sick of how his title was being treated that toward the end he
just said "Who gives a **** any more?!" -he was one of comics best
writers/scripters so the mess that YAS became is just...a mystery.<br />
<br />
Now, I need to get me round to finishing my Freedom Fighters run -and
the Freedom Fighters also guested in JLA (vol. 1) and All Star Squadron
with great storylines.<br />
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Oh well, I still have the fond memories and read of my ASS collection.<br />
<br />
oooo-er!</div>
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Terry Hooper-Scharfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09640253872553303307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1540226202611491443.post-45388653298441263282014-11-11T09:48:00.002-08:002014-11-11T09:48:24.136-08:00Well, 'Avengers 3' movie seems to follow 'The Thanos Quest' comic book storyline<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span>At least according to examiner.com <a href="http://www.examiner.com/article/avengers-3-movie-seems-to-follow-the-thanos-quest-comic-book-storyline">http://www.examiner.com/article/avengers-3-movie-seems-to-follow-the-thanos-quest-comic-book-storyline</a></span> -where you can watch the Thanos clip- who are simply repeating the information everyone else in comicdom is.</span></div>
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Now what did I tell everyone a good ways back when they were being
ripped off -price-wise- on anything Sub-Mariner related ("It's the big
mystery movie coming up!! Buy the goods now!")? I wrote, it's there for
all to see, that there was <b><i><u>no</u></i></b> Sub-Mariner movie.</div>
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Boo-ya!</div>
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But as Marvel movie news far exceeds news and excitement from DC movies....my treat!</div>
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According to <a href="http://comicbook.com/2014/11/06/is-this-the-road-to-avengers-infinity-war-the-thanos-quest-/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">ComicBook.com</a>
on Thursday, there is the speculative notion that Marvel Studios'
"Avengers: Infinity Wars" two-part comic book movie and the line-up of
other films in the <a class="inline_link omniture-click-processed" href="http://www.examiner.com/topic/marvel-cinematic-universe">Marvel Cinematic Universe</a> could follow along a similar path as "The <a class="inline_link omniture-click-processed" href="http://www.examiner.com/topic/thanos">Thanos</a>
Quest" which was written by Jim Starlin and drawn by Ron Lim. The plot
of that story entails Thanos' resurrection by Mistress Death to assist
her in accomplishing the mission of exterminating half the universe's
population.<br />
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Perhaps this was Death's efficient method of culling the herd, but
Thanos' intended to repay death in seeking out the six "Soul" or
"Infinity Gems" and them joining them together with the <a class="inline_link omniture-click-processed" href="http://www.examiner.com/topic/infinity-gauntlet">Infinity Gauntlet</a>.
"The Thanos Quest" is a two-part series that leads into the three
consecutive comic book limited-series of "The Infinity Gauntlet",
"Infinity War", and "Infinity Crusade."<br />
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Take notice the "Infinity War" comic book title is the same as the
Marvel Cinematic Universe's sub-title to "Avengers" third and forth
movies. One may speculate that those four comic book titles are being
condensed into the two-part Marvel Studios version. The Infinity Gems
are known as the <a href="http://marvel-movies.wikia.com/wiki/Infinity_Stones" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Infinity Stones</a> in the theatrical variant.<br />
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Right now, Thanos' objective is to collect what would allow him to
harness the Mind, Time, Reality, Soul, Space, and Power. This was his
objective in "The Thanos Quest" as he embarqed on his journey to acquire
them from the cosmic entities that are in current possession of them.
The Marvel Cinematic Universe, the locations and the occurrences of the
Infinity Stones are as follows:<br />
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<strong>The Space Gem</strong><br />
<strong> </strong><br />
Is also the Tesseract, the cube shaped artifact first seen in
"Captain America: The First Avenger" that was initially acquired by the
Red Skull back in World War II. It eventually allowed the Chitauri to
invade Earth during The Battle of New York at the hands of Thor's
villainous brother, Loki. This gem currently remains in Asgard.<br />
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<strong>The Reality Gem</strong><br />
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Also, known as the Aether in "Thor: The Dark World", this was in a
constantly seen as red in color and has made its way through space and
time. It can change regular matter into dark matter and had been coveted
by the Dark Elves who were born again into the universe from the
darkness that King Odin had spoken of. It now is in possession of The
Collector, played by <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001125/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Benicio Del Toro</a>, on Planet Knowhere.<br />
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<strong>The Power Gem</strong><br />
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This was the sought after artifact by Peter Jason Quill, a.k.a.
Star-Lord in James Gunn's "Guardians of the Galaxy." He had attempted to
take it to The Collector on Planet Knowhere and this is where the
audience learned of all six "singularities" where he spoke of how even
the most powerful of beings who had tried to harness its power, but
failed. Ronan the Accuser took possession of it and then later Rocket
distracted Ronan while Star-Lord made a break for it to grab the Power
Gem. The gem is currently located at the Nova headquarters on <a href="http://marvel.wikia.com/Xandar" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Xandar</a>.<br />
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<strong>The Mind Gem</strong><br />
<br />
This is found to be in Loki's scepter. It was given to him to control
the minds of those who could manipulate the Tesseract into bringing for
the Chitauri during the Battle of New York. With a touch of his sceptor
to his victim, he could easily control their free will. This was last
scene during the end-tease of "Captain America: The Winter Soldier at
Baron Von Strucker's underground Hydra facility along with captives
Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver.<br />
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This leaves the continuing saga of the Mad Titan Thanos to find and
acquire the gems. With the aforementioned mentioned brings for moving
forward with Marvel's phase three.<br />
<br />
<br />
<strong>"Captain America: Civil War"</strong><br />
In this film which is thought to lead to Tony Stark and Steve Rogers
opposing each other, an Infinity Stone will likely not enter this film.
Loki's scepter may come into play and could connect with the
"over-arching" "Thanos Quest" storyline. There's a thought that if this
scepter is acquired by the Avengers, one could contend that it would
stand to reason it would be in this film. This film is scheduled to be
released come May 6, 2016.<br />
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<strong>"Doctor Strange"</strong><br />
This is where it may get interesting. In the comic book storyline,
the Sorcerer Supreme plays a key role in Thanos' quest for the Infinity
Stones. In this film, where Benedict Cumberbatch is rumored to play the
starring role, a new stone could be brought into the mix. There may even
be a post-credit end scene with Thanos, who is known to be played by
"Goonies'" Josh Brolin, to make an appearance in the tease. This film is
slated for Nov. 6, 2016.<br />
<br />
<br />
<strong>"Guardians of the Galaxy 2"</strong><br />
Director Gunn has mentioned he's already working on the story/script
and it looks like this film would only make sense for Thanos to appear.
Likely to send someone to do his bidding to find the Aether or the
Reality Gem after the destruction of The Collector's museum. This comic
book movie is scheduled for May 5, 2017.<br />
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<br />
<strong>"Thor: Ragnarok"</strong><br />
This is where there could be a significant impact in the Marvel
Cinematic Universe. There are a few things to keep in mind here as
Ragnarok, also known as Surtur who is a malevolent fire demon, could
have wiped out Asgard as told in the comics. It could only be after the
destruction of Asgard is where Thanos collects the Infinity Gauntlet as
seen in the armory of Asgard in the previous "Thor" movie. This film is
scheduled to be released come July 28, 2017.<br />
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<strong>"Black Panther"</strong><br />
There isn't a frame of thought here where there would be any kind of
tie-in to Thanos' quest for the stones. One may wonder there could be
just an end tease to this movie entailing Thanos seeking out the final
stone. This comic book movie is scheduled for release come Nov. 3, 2017.<br />
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<strong>"Avengers: Infinity War Part 1"</strong><br />
One could only ascertain at this point, in the first portion of the
comic book movie that Thanos acquires all the Infinity Stones. Of
course, likely the last and final gem and is has finally put it all
together into the Infinity Gauntlet. This was likely seen in the trailer
at the Marvel press event last Tuesday showing Thanos wielding the
gauntlet with gems blazoned. The start of the two-part "<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4154756/?ref_=nv_sr_1" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Avengers 3</a>" movie is scheduled for May 4, 2018.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville Old Face;"><b><span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">12.15 – 13.15: ‘Breaking into
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<span><span style="font-family: Baskerville Old Face;"><span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Alternative Realities, Matthew
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville Old Face;"><b><span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">15.00 – 16.00: Poetry
workshop</span></span></b><span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></span></span></div>
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Horror</span></span></b><span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">’</span></span></span></div>
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Stanford</span></span></span></div>
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Just a quick note. I'll be at table 35 for the event. However, having thought about it I <u><i>will not</i></u> be taking the Maakika A4 art pieces not the postcard sets to sell.<br />
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The reason for this is simply that I do not think that anyone is going
to be interested at a book and comic expo. I don't want to cart a lot
of excess items to sell. No one has shown any interest in buying pieces
any way (even though I've received more praise for them than my comic
work grrrrrrrrrrrr).<br />
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But if you were going to the event to buy pieces then please let me know and I'll take a full set of art and postcards.<br />
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To be honest it's going to be hard work selling enough to cover costs at
a one day event so I'm gonna hunker down behind a table!!<br />
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I should -I have no 100% confirmation yet- be assisted by Darron
Northall so if the person behind the table doesn't have a beard and
screams at you it's not me!<br />
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Exhibitor</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Special arrangements</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Tony Long – The Comic Man</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">“</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
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<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 50.9pt;" valign="top" width="68">
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
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<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 50.9pt;" valign="top" width="68">
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
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<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 50.9pt;" valign="top" width="68">
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">5.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><u><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span></span></u></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Austin Chambers - author</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Panel 5</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">“</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">6.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><u><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span></span></u></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Adam Millard - author</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">7.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><u><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span></span></u></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Scott Stanford - author</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">8.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><u><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span></span></u></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Sophie Sparham - author</span></div>
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</div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">9.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><u><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span></span></u></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Ashley McCook - author</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">10.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Hannah Collins – Cosmic Anvil</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">11.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Paul Grist - author</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">12.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 213.4pt;" valign="top" width="285">
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Christine Mcmorran – Paint Can Alley</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">13.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><u><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span></span></u></div>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 213.4pt;" valign="top" width="285">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Simon Williams –artist </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Artist in residence</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">14.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><u><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span></span></u></div>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 213.4pt;" valign="top" width="285">
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</div>
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<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 50.9pt;" valign="top" width="68">
<div class="ListParagraph" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">15.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><u><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span></span></u></div>
</td>
<td rowspan="2" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 213.4pt;" valign="top" width="285">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Dave and Wendy Frankcom – Into The
Realm </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">“</span></div>
</td>
<td rowspan="2" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 197.8pt;" valign="top" width="264">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 16;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 50.9pt;" valign="top" width="68">
<div class="ListParagraph" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">16.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><u><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span></span></u></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 17;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 50.9pt;" valign="top" width="68">
<div class="ListParagraph" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">17.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><u><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span></span></u></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 213.4pt;" valign="top" width="285">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Chris Lynch – graphic novels and indie
books</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 197.8pt;" valign="top" width="264">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Panel 1</span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 18;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 50.9pt;" valign="top" width="68">
<div class="ListParagraph" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">18.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><u><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span></span></u></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 213.4pt;" valign="top" width="285">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Grayham Puttock – small press writer</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 197.8pt;" valign="top" width="264">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 19;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 50.9pt;" valign="top" width="68">
<div class="ListParagraph" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">19.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><u><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span></span></u></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 213.4pt;" valign="top" width="285">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Ian Schofield - artist</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 197.8pt;" valign="top" width="264">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 20;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 50.9pt;" valign="top" width="68">
<div class="ListParagraph" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">20.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><u><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span></span></u></div>
</td>
<td rowspan="2" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 213.4pt;" valign="top" width="285">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Tim Perkins – Wizard’s Keep</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">“</span></div>
</td>
<td rowspan="2" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 197.8pt;" valign="top" width="264">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 21;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 50.9pt;" valign="top" width="68">
<div class="ListParagraph" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">21.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><u><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span></span></u></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 22;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 50.9pt;" valign="top" width="68">
<div class="ListParagraph" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">22.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><u><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span></span></u></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 213.4pt;" valign="top" width="285">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Graham Bleathman</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 197.8pt;" valign="top" width="264">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 23;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 50.9pt;" valign="top" width="68">
<div class="ListParagraph" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">23.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><u><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span></span></u></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 213.4pt;" valign="top" width="285">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Simon Brett –artist and poublisher</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 197.8pt;" valign="top" width="264">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 24;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 50.9pt;" valign="top" width="68">
<div class="ListParagraph" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">24.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><u><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span></span></u></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 213.4pt;" valign="top" width="285">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Jennifer Anne Haugan - illustrator</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 197.8pt;" valign="top" width="264">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 25;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 50.9pt;" valign="top" width="68">
<div class="ListParagraph" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">25.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><u><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span></span></u></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 213.4pt;" valign="top" width="285">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Chloe Hammond - author</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 197.8pt;" valign="top" width="264">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 26;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 50.9pt;" valign="top" width="68">
<div class="ListParagraph" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">26.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><u><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span></span></u></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 213.4pt;" valign="top" width="285">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Nigel Mably – SF Collectables</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 197.8pt;" valign="top" width="264">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 27;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 50.9pt;" valign="top" width="68">
<div class="ListParagraph" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">27.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><u><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span></span></u></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 213.4pt;" valign="top" width="285">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
</div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 197.8pt;" valign="top" width="264">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 28;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 50.9pt;" valign="top" width="68">
<div class="ListParagraph" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">28.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><u><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span></span></u></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 213.4pt;" valign="top" width="285">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Steve Tanner – Time Bomb comics</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 197.8pt;" valign="top" width="264">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 29;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 50.9pt;" valign="top" width="68">
<div class="ListParagraph" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">29.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><u><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span></span></u></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 213.4pt;" valign="top" width="285">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Victoria Sommer - artist</span></div>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 197.8pt;" valign="top" width="264">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 30;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 50.9pt;" valign="top" width="68">
<div class="ListParagraph" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">30.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><u><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span></span></u></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 213.4pt;" valign="top" width="285">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Nick Gribbon - illustrator</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 197.8pt;" valign="top" width="264">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 31;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 50.9pt;" valign="top" width="68">
<div class="ListParagraph" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">31.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><u><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span></span></u></div>
</td>
<td rowspan="2" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 213.4pt;" valign="top" width="285">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Kris Carter – Lou Scannon books</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">“ -<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The Pencil Pirates</span></div>
</td>
<td rowspan="2" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 197.8pt;" valign="top" width="264">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 32;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 50.9pt;" valign="top" width="68">
<div class="ListParagraph" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">32.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><u><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span></span></u></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 33;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 50.9pt;" valign="top" width="68">
<div class="ListParagraph" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">33.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><u><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span></span></u></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 213.4pt;" valign="top" width="285">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
</div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 197.8pt;" valign="top" width="264">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 34;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 50.9pt;" valign="top" width="68">
<div class="ListParagraph" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">34.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><u><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span></span></u></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 213.4pt;" valign="top" width="285">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Vince Hunt and Daniel Marc Chant -
authors</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 197.8pt;" valign="top" width="264">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 35;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 50.9pt;" valign="top" width="68">
<div class="ListParagraph" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">35.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><u><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span></span></u></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 213.4pt;" valign="top" width="285">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Terry Hooper-Scharf – Black Tower comics </span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 197.8pt;" valign="top" width="264">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 36;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 50.9pt;" valign="top" width="68">
<div class="ListParagraph" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">36.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><u><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span></span></u></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 213.4pt;" valign="top" width="285">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Joanne Hall – author</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 197.8pt;" valign="top" width="264">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 37;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 50.9pt;" valign="top" width="68">
<div class="ListParagraph" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">37.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><u><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span></span></u></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 213.4pt;" valign="top" width="285">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Rianne Rowlands - illustrator</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 197.8pt;" valign="top" width="264">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 38;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 50.9pt;" valign="top" width="68">
<div class="ListParagraph" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">38.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><u><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span></span></u></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 213.4pt;" valign="top" width="285">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Michael Clipper – Sloth Junk
recyclables</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 197.8pt;" valign="top" width="264">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 39;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 50.9pt;" valign="top" width="68">
<div class="ListParagraph" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">39.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><u><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span></span></u></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 213.4pt;" valign="top" width="285">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Jamie Lambert – Bearded Skull comics</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 197.8pt;" valign="top" width="264">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 40;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 50.9pt;" valign="top" width="68">
<div class="ListParagraph" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">40.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><u><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span></span></u></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 213.4pt;" valign="top" width="285">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">James Dean – graphic artist</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 197.8pt;" valign="top" width="264">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 41;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 50.9pt;" valign="top" width="68">
<div class="ListParagraph" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">41.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><u><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span></span></u></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 213.4pt;" valign="top" width="285">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Caroline Loughrey –My Geeky Shop</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 197.8pt;" valign="top" width="264">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 42;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 50.9pt;" valign="top" width="68">
<div class="ListParagraph" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">42.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><u><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span></span></u></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 213.4pt;" valign="top" width="285">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Ian Matthews – Razarhawk comics</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 197.8pt;" valign="top" width="264">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 43;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 50.9pt;" valign="top" width="68">
<div class="ListParagraph" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">43.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><u><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span></span></u></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 213.4pt;" valign="top" width="285">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Dave Morris – graphic artist and Paul
Tobin - poet</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 197.8pt;" valign="top" width="264">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Panel 4</span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 44;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 50.9pt;" valign="top" width="68">
<div class="ListParagraph" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">44.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><u><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span></span></u></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 213.4pt;" valign="top" width="285">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Matthew Sylvester – Alternative Realities
and One Dotty Duck</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 197.8pt;" valign="top" width="264">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Panel 2</span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 45;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 50.9pt;" valign="top" width="68">
<div class="ListParagraph" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">45.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><u><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span></span></u></div>
</td>
<td rowspan="2" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 213.4pt;" valign="top" width="285">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Mark Warner – Hellbound Media</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">“ – Great Escape Books</span></div>
</td>
<td rowspan="2" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 197.8pt;" valign="top" width="264">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">(5 guests)</span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 46;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 50.9pt;" valign="top" width="68">
<div class="ListParagraph" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">46.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><u><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span></span></u></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 47;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 50.9pt;" valign="top" width="68">
<div class="ListParagraph" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">47.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><u><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span></span></u></div>
</td>
<td rowspan="2" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 213.4pt;" valign="top" width="285">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Rob Fish – Rob4Fish comics</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">“ – Rob4Fish merchandise</span></div>
</td>
<td rowspan="2" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 197.8pt;" valign="top" width="264">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 48;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 50.9pt;" valign="top" width="68">
<div class="ListParagraph" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">48.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><u><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span></span></u></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 49;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 50.9pt;" valign="top" width="68">
<div class="ListParagraph" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">49.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><u><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span></span></u></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 213.4pt;" valign="top" width="285">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Tony Cooper - author</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 197.8pt;" valign="top" width="264">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 50;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 50.9pt;" valign="top" width="68">
<div class="ListParagraph" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">50.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><u><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span></span></u></div>
</td>
<td rowspan="3" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 213.4pt;" valign="top" width="285">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">DeVaughn Lilly - author</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">“</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">“</span></div>
</td>
<td rowspan="3" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 197.8pt;" valign="top" width="264">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Panel 3</span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 51;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 50.9pt;" valign="top" width="68">
<div class="ListParagraph" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">51.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><u><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span></span></u></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 52;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 50.9pt;" valign="top" width="68">
<div class="ListParagraph" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">52.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><u><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span></span></u></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 53;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 50.9pt;" valign="top" width="68">
<div class="ListParagraph" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">53.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><u><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span></span></u></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 213.4pt;" valign="top" width="285">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Reception desk</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 197.8pt;" valign="top" width="264">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 54; mso-yfti-lastrow: yes;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 50.9pt;" valign="top" width="68">
<div class="ListParagraph" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">54.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><u><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span></span></u></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 213.4pt;" valign="top" width="285">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">In Birch for panels</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 197.8pt;" valign="top" width="264">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
</div>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
</div>
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