Heaven only knows how many fans were buying UK comics zines in the early 1970s. A few hundred? Somewhere in the (very) low four figures? Whatever the figure was, it was tiny, and the same names would often appear across a number of different fanzines as writers and correspondents. In and around London especially, there […]
Read More July 25th 1972 – The Comic Books We Never SawIn the years before Far Too Much became A Very Bad Thing for all but our lords and masters, America was A Very Good Thing Indeed. Older generations might have balked at our enthusiasm, but we knew, or rather we felt, that they were just plain wrong. The traditional, disapproving view of Americans as vulgar, […]
Read More July 24th 1972 – What Galaxy Showed MeOn this Saturday in 1972, were you in the vicinity of London, you could have visited the National Portrait Gallery for free and searched out images of many of the greatest fantastical writers of all time. As a boy during the period, I never imagined that the palaces of High Art could be for me […]
Read More July 23rd 1972 – Creators Of The Fantastical At London’s National Portrait Gallery
The Almanac Of The Fantastical 