The Newspaper Strip Collection of Oscar Charles Drayton – featuring the latest West story The Train Leaves at Noon, alongside other faux-1970s newspaper strip-style stories from John Maybury, Colin Stanford, Arthur Goodman, and David Goodman – is now available to buy online via British independent publisher Angry Candy’s Big Cartel and Comicsy storefronts for £7 post-free in the UK.
The Newspaper Strip Collection Of Oscar Charles Drayton: Space Babe 113 by John Maybury
As Oscar Charles Drayton, an obsessive newspaper strip collector, descends into psychotic depression he becomes convinced that the strips in the Daily Inspector are mirroring his life.
The Newspaper Strip Collection Of Oscar Charles Drayton: Run Pussy
Presented as a facsimile of one of Oscar’s scrapbooks from 1975, this intriguing-looking comic features established small-press comics in newspaper strip form including David Goodman’s Catgirl Crisis Comics, Andrew Cheverton and Tim Keable’s West, John Maybury’s Space Babe 113 and and Colin Stanford’s Run Pussy. Each strip tells its own story whilst contributing to the overall meta-story created by John Maybury.
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The Strips
Catgirl Crisis Comics © 2013, David Goodman: www.bahala-na.co.uk
West © 2013, Andrew Cheverton and Tim Keable: www.angrycandy.co.uk
Space Babe 113 © 2013, John Maybury: www.spacebabe113.co.uk
Run Pussy © 2013, Colin Stanford
Favourite Crayon © 2013, Arthur Goodman: www.favouritecrayon.co.uk
“Oscar’s panels” © 2013 Paul Rainey: www.pbrainey.com
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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.
Categories: British Comics, British Comics - Newspaper Strips
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