Commando Comic Art – The Show Goes On!

By John Freeman on May 3, 2012

The exhibition of Commando cover art at the National Army Museum in London may have just finished, but fear not if you missed it. The Commando team have just informed us they’re working with another museum to put on a display of some of our other pieces.

“With so much art to show, one exhibition would never have been enough,” says editor Calum Laird.

This time it’s in Aberdeen, at the home of the Gordon Highlanders and DC Thomson hope it will be a shorter journey for many of fans to make a visit.

“The selection of artwork will be made in the next fortnight and is due to go on display in the second week of July,” Calum told downthetubes. “More details will follow as they come to hand.

“The curator (who is a massive Commando fan) is coming down to start his selection,” he adds. “I think it’ll be a different group than the ones at the NAM which would be all to the good because they barely scratched to surface!”

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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.