A new interview with Commando and Dan Dare artist Keith Page has been posted on the official Commando website. In the interview Keith, who is currently working on his 144th Commando issue answers questions posed by Commando readers on his background, his work for the DC Thomson title and offers advice for aspiring artists.
Keith lists his artistic influences as Dan Dare’s Frank
Hampson, unsurprising for anyone who reads his Dan Dare prequel
Rocket Pilot published in
Spaceship Away, as well as Joe
Colquhoun and Geoff
Campion, perhaps best known for their war strips
Charley’s War and
Battler Britton.
As a bonus, at the end of the interview is a breakdown of how Keith creates a Commando cover with the cover to Cold War!, issue 3669, shown as a pencil sketch, the finished artwork and the printed version, as well as being available for download as a PC wallpaper.
October is the traditional time for
Commando to put their cover price up and this year the increase is only 5p bringing the cover price to £1.30. The increases in the price of
Commando over its long history were covered this time last year on
Bear Alley.
If the credit crunch is biting a little too deep for you to be able to afford a copy then the current of the free online e-Commando stories has just been completed on the
Commando Mag website.
They Flew By Night was originally published as issue 516 in December 1970 and with art by DC Thomson stalwart Gordon Livingstone. While you may not recognise the name, if you read any DC Thomson boy’s comic during the 1960s and 1970s you will recognise his style of artwork.
e-Commando They Flew By Night begins here.
The Commando interview with Keith Page is here.
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The founder of downthetubes, which he established in 1998. John works as a comics and magazine editor, writer, and on promotional work for the Lakes International Comic Art Festival. He is currently editor of Star Trek Explorer, published by Titan – his third tour of duty on the title originally titled Star Trek Magazine.
Working in British comics publishing since the 1980s, his credits include editor of titles such as Doctor Who Magazine, Babylon 5 Magazine, and more. He also edited the comics anthology STRIP Magazine and edited several audio comics for ROK Comics. He has also edited several comic collections, including volumes of “Charley’s War” and “Dan Dare”.
He’s the writer of “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.
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