In Case Anyone Wonders....

If you look you will not find it. You can order books via links but the POD just "upgraded" its system and it is a NIGHTMARE.

Three hoursto try to get a book published and there are now multiple steps in publishing the interior let alone the cover. I was working on this until 0130 hrs and started back at 1100 hrs.  I then tried publishing a second book and that just confirmed how bad the system now is.

You can order easily but the publishing side takes....well...

Old system to upload the interior....5-10 minutes
Upload the covers....2-4 minutes.

Looking at what I just did the previous 7-14 minutes is now just over an hour.

As soon as I have checked proof copies of the two new books I will post details.

Old Projects Resurrected?

I was asked whether my sharing the old projects such as Voyagers meant that I was thinking about using them again. The simple answer is both yes and no.

You see, Power Women (I have found and mislaid 20pp in the space of three days so that is why those pages have not been posted yet) was a thing of its time. 1989 and you had to have been there to understand what was going on in the real world and the comic. More of that another time.

Voyagers. Odd to think that John and Joan would be in their mid-40s by now!  The dialogue contained a lot of references from 1989. Judge Pickles, the then WWF Wrestling and so on. It could be updated but the art would have to have that same quirky sort of feel to it.

The Traveller, well that was so far out there that it could be used again but the art would need to be of a similar style.

The Looking Glass -well, no problem there since the series was supposed to be surrealistic and there are no real cultural references dating it.

There are two big problems.

The first is that I would need to try to remember what was supposed to happen since the original scripts vanished with the artists. Not insurmountable but the stories would not be the original ones.

The biggest problem is that there is no money to pay artists. Back in those days it was a 50-50 project. I wrote, the artist drew the story and I took on all the expenses in trying to sell the project and if it was taken up we both got paid and the artist had extra income from selling their art pages.

If I had the money then, yes, I might give it all a try and that includes Invaders From Demos -written many years before the movie Independence Day or even The Survivor.

I never say never but at this moment in time I have a lot of other projects I need to finish.

Hope that is all clear...or not!

Voyagers -update. All the pages I think exist! (no I found more pages)

W -T Hooper-Scharf

A -Becky Pearce

c 1990/2020

Professor Randall, along with John and a very reluctant Joan, are casting off into space and soon find them on the newly named "Randall's Planet"!

It's The Traveller Synopsis and even more art!

I can offer more pages from The Traveller -originally planned as a 4 issue mini series. Again, looking in an archive box I found one of the old type writte, submission synopsis sheets with some pages attached and credits!

The artist was Martin Bagshawe and the year was 1991 (if I dated it as 1991 that means it was actually produced in 1990).

This is it -all the pages that exist.

I hope Martin continued drawing. Loved the style and, yes, that is President George Bush Snr!

Captain Eco -all the pages I have

1993 and the megalomaniac "chaos" scientist named Dr Chaos is using using specially created crystals to hold the world to ransom. 

In his orbiting space station Captain Eco (pronounced "echo") receives the call and investigates.

Roughly lettered pp 5-11 and 13 and I am sure the artist was named Antonio de Sarno

UPDATE:I'm posting all the pages I have. I just found one page with the artist's name and the date...26th August...1990!!!!  If -IF- I ever find pages 12 and 19 I will post!

Gilly Gosh! More Pages Found!

I found pages 18 and 20 of Voyagers this morning.

But also found pages from the early 1990s of Captain Eco -which I think was drawn by Antonio deSarna?  I also found the first 19 pages (I know the other pages are in a box) of Power Women an all female super group from the early 1990s and drawn by David Gray.

I'll post a few pages from each over the next few days but having just finished painting my WW 2 Soviet infantry and Naval Infantry I also finished the modern Russian troops. That means the WW 2 Imperial Japanese army is next so I'll be busy with that and gardening.

You can still buy my books from the online store though! :-)

A Look At The Past Part 4 -The New Hornet

In 1987, D. C. Thomson (Dundee Editions) were "very interested" in the idea of reviving their old adventure heroes and suggested I put together a mock copy. 

So, Tom Elmes drew PENDRAGON and I must have his depiction of the demon somewhere but only two pages have been found. 

The wonderful John Erasmus drew CAPTAIN HORNET

John P. Welding drew a now adult BILLY THE CAT and I drew a grown up GENERAL JUMBO who got 'drafted' by Military Intelligence and sent to a war in South America. 

Very few pages remain. 

Oh, Thomson responded:"not really interested."