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New Finnish Jeff Hawke collection announced, features new Sydney Jordan interview

By John Freeman on March 16, 2025

Finnish publisher Art House Ltd continues to celebrate the creativity of the “Jeff Hawke” newspaper strip with a new collection, Jeff Hawke: Ihmiskoe (“Jeff Hawke: The Human Experiment”).

This new Finnish collection follows up on the previous collection released through the publisher’s Jalava imprint last year, Jeff Hawke: Ylivaltias (“Jeff Hawke: Overlord”).

“Jeff Hawke”, created by Willie Patterson and Sydney Jordan, is an ambitious and intelligent adult science fiction newspaper strip, first published in the Daily Express between 1950 to 1974, but was also syndicated worldwide. It combines surprising twists and profound storytelling with fascinating human nature research and unexpected encounters with the unknown.

Jeff Hawke: Ihmiskoe, featuring a cover by Venla Käräjämäki and Petri Aarnio is due for release in August 2025. The new collection includes eight adventures and an extensive interview with Sydney Jordan, which the 96-year-old Jordan gave especially for this book.

• ArtHouse is online at arthouse.fi

• Petri Aarnio

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John is the founder of downthetubes, launched in 1998. He is a comics and magazine editor, writer, and Press Officer for the Lakes International Comic Art Festival. He also runs Crucible Comic Press.

Working in British comics publishing since the 1980s, his credits include editor of titles such as Doctor Who Magazine and Overkill for Marvel UK, Babylon 5 Magazine, Star Trek Magazine, and its successor, Star Trek Explorer, and more. He also edited the comics anthology STRIP Magazine and edited several audio comics for ROK Comics; and has edited several comic collections and graphic novels, including volumes of “Charley’s War” and “Dan Dare”, and Hancock: The Lad Himself, by Stephen Walsh and Keith Page.

He’s the writer of comics such as Pilgrim: Secrets and Lies for B7 Comics; “Crucible”, a creator-owned project with 2000AD artist Smuzz; and “Death Duty” and “Skow Dogs”, with Dave Hailwood.