True Brit was published in 2004 (that long ago!) and soon went out of print (see below for link for the old edition). The book had up to date profiles, interviews and lots of pictures of British comic artists and their works. It was edited by TwoMorrows regular George Khoury and my old mate Paul Holder (who designed the whole book) wrote pages 34-43 on Frank Bellamy and included some rare photos of the man. (I'm too modest to mention my contribution on Mike Noble).
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| True Brit © TwoMorrows 2011 |
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| True Brit © TwoMorrows 2004 |
Anyway, TwoMorrows, who have been making loads of their regular magazines available in the digital format, have now asked Paul to enhance the old version and add colour and some new pictures for the digital publication. Just look as his new cover above. You can see it was a labour of love!. The article of "The History of British Comic Art" by David Roach is worth the price of admission alone.
When I say some colour has been added I mean Paul has enhanced the previous black and white pictures, added several pieces that weren't in the original book - just look at the Don Lawrence, Frank Hampson, the Dalek artwork - many from the original art! Add to that Grimly Feendish, Little Plum, Steel Claw, double page spreads by Bellamy, Gerry Haylock, John Burns, and Ron Embleton. Oh and just in case you think I'm stuck in the past, there's all these people in there:
| Leo Baxendale Frank Bellamy Brian Bolland Mark Buckingham John M. Burns Alan Davis Ron Embleton |
Hunt Emerson Dave Gibbons Frank Hampson Bryan Hitch Syd Jordan Don Lawrence David Lloyd |
Dave McKean Mike Noble Kevin O'Neill Frank Quitely Ken Reid Bryan Talbot Barry Windsor-Smith |
How much teasing do you need? Run, don't walk, over to TwoMorrows and order yourself an e-copy and why not browse their other superb books and magazines whilst there - I'm not getting any commission, but love what they do.Oh, if you don't believe my hyperbole, download the free PDF sampler with a handy clickable link at the end to point you to the fuller 284 pages - all for $6.95...and I could add a joke about no delivery charges, but that would be cheap!
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| True Brit. p.52 © TwoMorrows 2011 |
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| True Brit, p.53 © TwoMorrows 2011 |
P.S. At the time of the 2004 publication there were other books called True Brit published - and looking at these links you'll see it's a popular title. Our title was up against Britney Spears
and John Cleese's Superman
as well as Commando and the fact that the draft pre-publication cover was seen all over the Net meant, I feel, customers were confused. The 2004 cover above was the final published version - don't believe everything you read online!So just to confuse things further, here's the unpublished cover from 2004 with a link to the old edition
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True Brit: Celebrating The Comic Book Artists Of The UK
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