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Crowdfunding Spotlight: !GAG! #2 by Phil Elliott, Eddie Campbell and Glenn Dakin

By John Freeman on June 24, 2023

After the successful revival of his !GAG! anthology late last year, Phil Elliott launched a modest Kickstarter for #2 this week, and there’s still time to back the latest collection, offering some new material from Glenn Dakin, and more.

The !GAG! comics anthology originally ran for seven issues from Martin Lock’s Harrier Comics back in the late 1980s, switching from comic book to magazine with #4.

The second edition of this modern take spans 60 pages in a landscape A4 format, and features obscure, unpublished and new strips by Phil, Eddie Campbell and Glenn Dakin.

*Eddie Campbell, Glenn Dakin and Phil Elliott*

Eddie Campbell, perhaps best known for his hugely popular Alec strip and From Hell, created with Alan Moore, has dug around into his archives for some cartoons of the more personal sort.

Also included are some Alec out-takes, a kind of “who he is and how he came to be,” and his helter-skelter lunatic stuff, such as the “Great Wasters from History not counting Dave Sim” series.

Illustrator, comic book artist and colourist Phil Elliot, co-creator of Illegal Alien with James Robinson and The Man from Cancer with Glenn Dakin, the latter now appearing in SHIFT, offers you twenty pages of his idiosyncratic comic strips, many of which have never been seen before.

Writer and cartoonist Glenn Dakin, author of books such as Mr. Spock’s Little Book of Mindfulness, the Candle Man novels, and his autobiographical strip, Abe, introduces his first new cartoon character in over a decade, Hopty Mystic, coloured by Daniel Rachael. We’ll also be treated to some and unseen “Abe” and “Temptation” strips.

There are sketches by all three creators available as rewards, and Eddie has also written an entertaining and enlightening introduction to this second edition of !GAG!. Phil and Glenn also introduce their own comic strips, with more interesting stories about their contributions.

• You can back !GAG! #2 here on Kickstarter

John Freeman

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.