DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
action comic: “the sevenpenny nightmare!” (the sun)
just been reading martin barker’s “action: the story of a violent comic” (yes, i know it’s nearly 4am, and i know i said i was going to do some work, but...) (titan, 1990), and for the first time i noticed a reference to an earlier book, “comics: ideology, power and the critics” (manchester university press, 1989). anyone out there read it?
also, he mentioned that when ‘action’ was withdrawn after a campaign by the moralistas led by the likes of la whitehouse, that “through the streets of brixton (truly - several people have recalled this)... rang the cry: ‘THEY’VE TAKEN AWAY OUR COMIC!’” any of you sarf lahndahn types remember this?
anyway, for those wot don’t know, ‘action’ was a particularly gritty and violent comic that ipc put out in 1976, and which through its grittiness and violence attracted the ire of the self-professed ‘moral majority’, which in turn gave ipc management the wobble, halting production of the comic till it was niced up.
it was created by freelance writer pat mills, who’d already given ipc a hit with ‘battle’, which he co-created with john ‘judge dredd’ wagner, and afterwards mills would go on to bring about 2000ad and forever change the landscape of british comics, etc.
talking of which, why exactly did ipc/fleetway sell 2000ad? any krt insiders like to spill the beans? i’ve not been a 2000ad reader for a few years now, and only noticed the change of ownership when i was browsing the website. has ipc/fleetway got out of comics totally now? is there a future for non-tv tie-ins, nursery readers or ‘adult’ comics in the uk? i mean apart from u.s. style books - i mean proper, sausage-and-mash u.k. comics, weeklies with half a dozen episodes of different stories each issue...
read, digest, discuss and give me answers, dammit!
just been reading martin barker’s “action: the story of a violent comic” (yes, i know it’s nearly 4am, and i know i said i was going to do some work, but...) (titan, 1990), and for the first time i noticed a reference to an earlier book, “comics: ideology, power and the critics” (manchester university press, 1989). anyone out there read it?
also, he mentioned that when ‘action’ was withdrawn after a campaign by the moralistas led by the likes of la whitehouse, that “through the streets of brixton (truly - several people have recalled this)... rang the cry: ‘THEY’VE TAKEN AWAY OUR COMIC!’” any of you sarf lahndahn types remember this?
anyway, for those wot don’t know, ‘action’ was a particularly gritty and violent comic that ipc put out in 1976, and which through its grittiness and violence attracted the ire of the self-professed ‘moral majority’, which in turn gave ipc management the wobble, halting production of the comic till it was niced up.
it was created by freelance writer pat mills, who’d already given ipc a hit with ‘battle’, which he co-created with john ‘judge dredd’ wagner, and afterwards mills would go on to bring about 2000ad and forever change the landscape of british comics, etc.
talking of which, why exactly did ipc/fleetway sell 2000ad? any krt insiders like to spill the beans? i’ve not been a 2000ad reader for a few years now, and only noticed the change of ownership when i was browsing the website. has ipc/fleetway got out of comics totally now? is there a future for non-tv tie-ins, nursery readers or ‘adult’ comics in the uk? i mean apart from u.s. style books - i mean proper, sausage-and-mash u.k. comics, weeklies with half a dozen episodes of different stories each issue...
read, digest, discuss and give me answers, dammit!
ouch, now that's what i call indigestion 
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