Paul McCartney so loved Jack Kirby’s work that he named a Wings song after two of Jack’s characters. When Jack heard about this, he drew an illustration of Paul and his wife Linda and hand delivered it to the concert venue Wings was performing at. Happy birthday, Sir Paul! #beatles

Tharg's Terror Tales: Milk & Honey by Kevin Cullen. Script by Mark Millar, letters by Annie Parkhouse. Just to show some appreciation for rare, brilliant and seemingly M.I.A. artist Kevin Cullen. Wherever he is now, he seems to have left Comics behind – a real shame and a great loss if so!

Here, have a Mike Oldfield adjacent Dr Who theme: robertreed.bandcamp.com/album/theme-...

Happy Friday, I woke up remembering this meme and the untold psychic damage it inflicted upon me

2000 AD Prog 2000 Cover, by Brian Bolland. Design by Steve Cook. It was Steve Cook's idea to base the cover on the iconic Iwo Jima flag-raising Marines photo (and Arlington statue). He then had to painstakingly Photoshop a pile of classic comics into Brian Bolland's artwork.

That time I got to work with the mighty Dave Gibbons: from 2000 AD Prog 2000, page 1 of Remembrance Day. Commissioned at the turn of the Millennium by then-Tharg David Bishop.

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Kevin Cullen

Since today is Peter Cushing's birthday and tomorrow is Christopher Lee and Vincent Price's, let's watch, as far as I'm aware, the only movie to have all three, the delightfully cheesy House of the Long Shadows (1983)

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Once he was a soldier. In this flooded future world he lives as a hard-boiled Private Eye from historic pulp fiction – but his real identity is a mystery he refuses to investigate. Chapter Four is available now on Substack. Free to subscribe. open.substack.com/pub/therealj...

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I hate when this happens.

It's the burp that gets me. www.youtube.com/shorts/emi4f...

Every credulous buffoon in Tech Journalism:

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The definite article, you might say

Lesser-known proofreading marks

Tales Of Suspense no. 15 (Mar 1961) cover by Jack Kirby with Dick Ayers. I think I’d place Goom in my top 5 Kirby monsters… cool design. And later, his son, Googam, would return to earth to avenge him.

And they said no one could possibly sustain this level of crazy... I have a theory.

Death's Head Revisited by Richard Elson. Commissioned as the third part of a Death's Head triptych gatefold for Marvel Fact Files #55.

Marvel UK heroes (and one villain) from Marvel Fact Files #97, by Mike Perkins. Clockwise from left: Captain Britain, Wallop, Crimson Crusader, Hell's Angel, Assassin 8, Death's Head, Albion, Dragon, Motormouth, Night Raven

Steve White

Captain Britain Vs. Mastermind by Alan Davis, from Marvel Fact Files #149. Letters by Simon Bowland.

With thanks to Mike Collins!

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It never gives up... The Fury from Marvel Fact Files #163 by Alan Davis.

A few years ago I asked Alan Davis to recreate his classic cover from Captain Britain #1, for an issue of Marvel Fact Files. He did so amazingly – with a few subtle changes. Anti-clockwise from left: The Cherubim, Nocturne, Black Knight, Dai Thomas, Excalibur, Mastermind

Simon Bisley's truly epic cover for Knights of Pendragon #6.

EnKITTification Artist: bruised_blood https://b3ta.com/board/11426454 From the '80s Tech Today' challenge https://b3ta.com/challenge/80stechtoday/popular/ #80sTechToday

About to put up a sign following the wailing and gnashing of a hysterical local Whatsapp group. Dora giving definite imposter syndrome vibes.

Creatively, I’m a vegetable. Parenting and a collapsing house has made doing anything that isn’t well/promptly paid unjustifiable and it’s getting harder and harder. A friend advised me to keep sharing the last thing I made that I was proud of, so I’m doing that. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/i...

A wondrous world of weird awaits you on Steve Cook's Substack, Secret Oranges... secretoranges.substack.com

Beautiful cover I commissioned from Mike Ploog for the Werewolf by Night issue of the Marvel Figurine Collection; colour by Chris Blythe

This never gets old. The facial expression for 'Ahoy! Ahoy!' alone cracks me up every time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gib9...

Mugged off

Mind the pomodoros

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