Rebellion have certainly been increasing their output this year and they're not stopping yet! In comic shops this Saturday, 4th May, is Funny Pages, a special one-off packed with humour strips from yesteryear... and it's FREE!
Yes, Funny Pages is one of the comics that's part of the Free Comic Book Day scheme running across comic speciality shops in the UK and USA (not in newsagents). Hopefully your nearest retailer will have ordered it so you'll be able to pick one up on Saturday. (But buy some comics too, to keep the shop in business, ok?)
Funny Pages doesn't run any credits, apart from the few pages that artists signed back in the day, so I've compiled a contents list for you with all the artists I've identified...
Faceache - Ken Reid
Deadly Hedley - Martin Baxendale
Sweeny Toddler - Tom Paterson
Birdman and Chicken - Terry Metcalfe
Disappearing Trix - Reg Parlett
Prambo - Steve Bright
Kid Kong - Robert Nixon
Sub - Ken Reid
Haunted House game - Jack Oliver
Gums - John Geering
X-Ray Specs - Mike Lacey
Milly O’Naire and Penny Less - Jim Hansen
Frankie Stein - Ken Reid
Martha’s Monster Make Up - Ken Reid
Watford Gapp - Tom Paterson
Ivor Lott - Jim Crocker
Glugg - Gordon Hogg
Grimly Feendish - Stan McMurtry I'm pleased to see a couple of Odhams strips in there from the 1960s (Glugg from Wham! and Grimly Feendish from Smash!) but surprised that there's no Leo Baxendale work included. I'd have liked to have seen some of Roy Wilson's work from the 1930s included too, but realistically that would have looked too ancient for most kids today. Because this is definitely aimed at kids, not just nostalgists, to show them that these strips still stand up today as funny stuff.
Anyway, grab a Funny Pages this Saturday! Here's the PR and a few sample pages to whet your appetites...
CREATIVE TEAM: Ken Reid, Robert Nixon, Reg Parlett, Trevor Metfalfe, Steve Bright, Mike Lacey, Martin Baxendale, Sid Burgeon, Gordon Hogg (w+a)
WORLDWIDE and DIGITAL: 4th May 2019
RATING: ALL-AGES
It's time to put the funny back in funny pages! This Free Comic Book Day, the Treasury of British Comics presents a stack of silliness in a folio of frivolous foolishness with a trove of classic cartoon characters! Infant delinquent Sweeney Toddler commits crimes from the crib! Just when you thought it was safe to parody Steven Spielberg shark films, along comes the terror from the depths, GUMS! Martha's Monster Make-Up and Faceache strips are both a scream! The egg-straordinary adventures of super-zeroes Birdman and Chicken are sure to get you clucking; You can count on Deadley Hedley The Vampire Detective to be up to your neck in laughs when he joins a stake-out at a monster Christmas Party! A bounty of belly-laughs for kids of all ages!
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Available in print from: comic book stores via Diamond
Available in digital from: 2000 AD webshop and apps for iPad, Android, Windows 10
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