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The opening spread of "We Are United" from Champ No. 1, launched in February 1984. Peter recalls DC Thomson were impressed with his test pages and It ended up being the longest run of any of the strips he worked on, but it's not a strip he remembers fondly. "It meant I soon ran out of new ways of presenting football action," he recalled. "I fought to prevent boredom but not always with any great success because I was only repeating myself." "The very first opening was about the whole team and the support people. I therefore had to invent a huge number of characters. Unbeknownst to me, the second script was about the sacking of about a third of the team and the building up of a new group. A large number of the new team had to be re-invented. I felt my first effort had gone to waste. Had I known that was going to happen I'd have not tried to be so creative."

Comic Creator Spotlight: Comic Artist Peter Foster

By John Freeman on October 18, 2020 • ( 0 )

Spotlighting a popular Australian comics artist who has drawn many strips for British comics

Latest Commando set sees debut of another new writer to the war comic team

By John Freeman on October 14, 2020 • ( 0 )

Commando Issues 5375 – 5378 serve up some alternative angles on World War Two

The Comic Collector - October 2020 Auction Montage

The Comic Collector’s latest auction is simply Beezer

By John Freeman on October 12, 2020

More great classic British comics up for grabs

Creating Comics: An Interview with new Commando writer Colin Maxwell

By Richard Sheaf on October 6, 2020

Richard Sheaf chats with a newcomer on Britain’s longest-running war comic

Commando 5371: Home of Heroes: Five Little Soldier Boys - Full Cover

Creepy Commandos, an SF adventure – and the new Commando Calendar out, too!

By John Freeman on September 30, 2020

There’s something for everyone in this brand-new set of Commando comics (Issues 5371 – 5374), on sale this week from DC Thomson Media, a set that marks the debut of award-winning comics writer Colin Maxwell to the creative team: from… Read More ›