Captain Scarlet goes large! (Large poster, that is…)

By John Freeman on October 11, 2024

Print Maker John Patrick Reynolds is selling some large-size prints – just under A3 in size – at a discount rate on his Comic-Art site, ranging from an image of Captain Scarlet to the Moomins.

These fully licensed prints large prints – 38cms x 28cms, or a quarter sheet, in size – are not usually available, so grab them while you can.

Alf Tupper, the Tough Of The Track, enjoys his work
John Tenniel’s Mad Hatter
John Tenniel’s White Rabbit
Captain Scarlet buckles up
Moomintroll doesn’t understand plan to start a bank
The Moomins whisper sweet nothings
The Moomins: “Fuss and misery”
“I have to confess the police are after me”
A spotters’ silhouette of the RAF’s brilliant Mosquito fighter bomber
The Rover: DC Thomson’s last all-text comic with beautiful design featuring 1966 World Cup on front page
Gerry Anderson’s Thunderbird 2 in the clouds
Heath Robinson’s garden cricket

“They’re not my usual format and so are not generally for sale on my website. Normally they just languish on my shelves and drawers but now you have a chance to buy them.”

A lifelong comics fan, John Patrick Reynolds’s handmade silkscreen prints have been featured on the BBC, in the Observer and elsewhere.

“The Rover was my first love – an adventure comic which was all-text,” says John. “Every week it held stirring stories about everything from cyclists in the Tour de France to soldiers in the Second World War. The paper it was printed on was uncoated newsprint – I loved the way it felt in my hands. It was also well designed – I loved the way it looked, and loved the pictures.

“Now I’m a screenprinter,” he adds, his licensed prints including Beano characters and many more. I discovered about 15 years ago that comics were a perfect fit for screenprinting. The medium is good at producing flat vivid colour and bold outline – just right for the stylised nature of comics.”

• Check out John’s Prints On Sale Page here

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John Freeman

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.