Time for a Bellamy Break

 

Radio Times 2-8 January 1971, p.42

I've been thinking for a while of taking a break from blogging about Frank Bellamy. So the end of another year seems a good place to start a new hobby.  Let me first put to rest any rumours of my demise or health situation. I'm fine, thank you and have only used the current artwork as David Slinn kindly scanned and sent it to me. This made me realise I've not tackled Radio Times artwork much beyond Star Trek. The reason is, I suspect, the artwork is seen all over the place - especially the Doctor Who artwork and therefore I forget to blog about the other wonderful stuff. There are bloggers who do far more than me, but I'm proud of what I've achieved so far and over 18 years (!) have added 464  articles here as well as the checklist.

Radio Times 2-8 January 1971, p.42

 I've decided to take a break from this blog - I'm still blogging on Raymond Sheppard and also my Visual Rants blog - but will be watching developments on the web and following up any alerts I get from web services about Frank Bellamy. I promised myself to blog about Frank Bellamy at least once a month and have more or less done that. There's still loads to share but I feel I'd like to do other things in my retirement. I recently picked up a dip pen and ink for the first time in 50 years(!) and was very pleased with the result - and I'm my own worst critic , so I want to do more. I've enjoyed building a book nook kit - you know those things you see advertised on Facebook and that was fun. Also I was recently in touch with someone who, like me was curious when the "Uncle Mac's Children's Hour Story Books were published and that sent me down a very enjoyable rabbit hole.

Radio Times 2-8 January 1971, p.48

Radio Times 2-8 January 1971, p.60

Anyway, you have the checklist available. It's often easier to use this syntax in any search engine/browser, substituting your search term for my suggested "Bell and Howell":

site:frankbellamy.co.uk "Bell and Howell"

You also have the Illustrators Special on Frank Bellamy - which was a lot of work for me (and others!) and you have another reprint - Ghost World -  coming up which I'll announce here when it arrives on my doorstep - see, I'm not giving up!

And you can find my email on this blog fairly easily - I'm not spelling it out here for fear of more hacks and spam! 

Lastly let me wish you all a Very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year