In iT #136, Ges Cox painted a picture of the first day of Comicon ’72: “The downstairs suite of the Waverley Hotel is packed with freaks, odd looking people in their Saturday casuals and straight comic collectors, all milling round surrounded by piles of old posters, tables which groan under the weight of old Marvels, […]
Read More August 6th 1972 -Comicon ’72 – How Was It For Them Then?The above ad for London’s Electric Cinema Club appeared in the first August 1972 edition of the underground magazine iT, or International Times as it had previously been known. As you can see from the movies on show, there was a clear reason for the Club advertising in the countercultural press. For these are selections […]
Read More August 3rd 1972 – The Electric Cinema Club & A Film Show For Comicon ‘72, part 2 of 2As an example of a film show for a comics convention, it’s hard to think of one that’s more impressive than that provided by the Electric Cinema Club for August 6th/7th’s Comicon ‘72. In truth, the line-up of movies the ECC provided, and indeed helped to sponsor, would make for a quite brilliant film festival […]
Read More August 3rd 1972 – The Electric Cinema Club & A Film Show For Comicon ‘72, part 1 of 2Given how the counter-culture had long embraced comic books, it should be little surprise to note that an early mention of 1972’s Comicon arrived in the pages of May 18th’s issue of the underground paper ‘IT’. There, amongst the pieces about Vietnam, rock festivals and Marcuse, and in the company of comic strips such as […]
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The Almanac Of The Fantastical 