Panini post and Cartmel cavil
03/05/2015
The Royal Mail delivered to my door a copy of Volume 3 in the collected Seventh Doctor Comic Strips series. It contains nine reprinted Dr Who strips including one drawn by me. I assume it was sent by someone at Panini. It came as a surprise since I had forgotten that there was to be a reprint to which I had grouchily declined to contribute a few words. There was no explanatory letter enclosed in the package, no cheque or suggestion of how a reprint fee might be invoiced for.
New collection
06/04/2015
Celebrating our reappearance with a piece of shameless self-promotion.
As part of it's grandiose scheme to produce a Judge Dredd Mega Collection in a set of matching books Rebellion have created a new cover for five Judge Anderson stories - Shamballa, The Jesus Syndrome, Satan, The Protest and R*volution.
There is an interview shared between Alan Grant and myself conducted by Michael Molcher who had the wit to come up with some new and interesting topics.
READ THIS - comments - messages
03/11/2014
Due to circumstances beyond my control - circumstances in this case being a combination of the hard realities of life and the vagaries of technology - it seems it is no longer possible to leave comments. Sorry about that. You are missed. I can still be reached. Contact, top right, gives an email address - me@arthurranson.com .
It is also not possible presently for new blogs to be created. This excuse for one was made by the cannibalisation of an earlier blog. Unable to upload images either so we are sadly pictureless. :(
Dave Gibbons Laureate
221/10/2014
Dave Gibbons has been appointed as the UK's first comics laureate by the charity Comic Literacy Awareness.
Dave, I think I can call him Dave, will act as ambassador for comics and their role in encouraging children to read, visiting schools, talking to children, teachers and educationalists. Dave, like me and I guess many others, was a pre-school reader thanks to comics.
When I first met Dave Gibbons, at Lucca, he was at an early enough stage of his career to ask for my opinion on drawing Doctor Who.
Rembrandt
19/10/2014
Rembrandt - The Late Works
The National Gallery
Trafalgar Square
London WC2N 5DN
October 15th - January 18th
Paintings, drawings and prints.
Having composed a deep and meaningful piece about the reasons for my admiration for Rembrandt I pressed the wrong button and lost it all. Perhaps as well.
Appy art
26/09/2014
ROK have completed the digital "Beatles Story" and the app is now on sale for IPad and iPhone on iTunes. You get the 'Beatles Story' originally published in 'Look-in' and other stuff.
Joseph Mallord William Turner.
09/09/2014
Late Turner - Painting Set FreeTate Britain: Exhibition. 10 September 2014 – 25 January 2015
An exhibition featuring large-scale oil paintings, drawings, prints and watercolours. This the first major exhibition to survey the extraordinary last works of Joseph Mallord William Turner.
Judge Anderson. The PSi Files.
21/07/2014
Judge Anderson. The PSi Files. Volumes 3 and 4
Spent a good part - in both the sense of 'a considerable part' and 'a well spent part' - of my weekend reading these two fat books. I was left with a renewed appreciation of what a super writer Alan Grant is. Judge Cassandra Anderson PSI is a great invention. A complex character involved in adventures that allow for her special abilities to bring her into contact with the fantastic and the all too human..
Sirius collectors
01/07/2014
For reasons I can only surmise at least one person to my knowledge is down-loading the 'Sirius' images. A sense of obligation to this person requires I draw attention to a change to one of the pictures.
For reasons of whimsy on my part every seventh page has had a chapter title. There was a failure to do this for the first frame of page 50. This has now been amended.
DM returns
24/06/2014
Danger Mouse is being bought back. 52 new Danger Mouse episodes will be on CBBC channel in 2015 newly realized by Ireland’s Boulder Media, with Ben Ward, of 'Horrible Histories‘ writing the scripts.
Making Colour
19/06/2014
Making Colour. National Gallery. 18 June – 7 September 2014
Physics, art and neurology all feature in this exhibition - the materials that create the pigments the artists use to create the works that create the effects in the brain of the viewer.
Exhibits of painting, ceramics, minerals, and textiles. Dealing with lapis lazuli, cobalt, vermilion, cadmium, verdigris, viridian - which sound like characters from a fabulous fantasy. Gold and silver too.
Henry Darger
1/06/2014
Henry Joseph Darger, Jr. ( c. April 12, 1892 – April 13, 1973
Darger was 4 when his mother died, 8 when his impoverished father put him in a Catholic Mission home and 13 when at the death of his father he was sent to an Illinois asylum for children. Age 16 he escaped and walked the 156.2 miles,( 251.4 km) to Chicago.
