I was approached through another party about lettering some sample pages to be presented to MARVEL by the person or parties then holding the copyright to the character. I did - and obviously it was my lettering that swung the deal. (Okay, that last part may not be accurate.)

I may be posting the pages on my blog (did I mention my blog?), so why not give it a visit?

And sorry about the shameless plug - hope you don't mind. I genuinely didn't realize I was joining a discussion. Just in case it's pertinent, and as I see MARVELMAN getting a mention, I actually lettered the sample pages as part of the package presented to MARVEL when they were considering buying the character.

Hi Tony, I now have a blog up and running at kidr77.blogspot.com - feel free to give it a look.

Cheers.

I think it was because Watchmen hit the US before Eclipse relaunched Marvelman (as Miracleman) in the US (unless I've got my dates badly wrong, which is quite possible). His original appearance in an obscure British comic wouldn't have registered at all in the US. And as Eclipse was a smaller publisher, Miracleman wouldn't have hit the public attention as strongly as Watchmen, which had the much larger DC marketing and sales behind it.

I've never read Skizz, although "less annoyingly cute" than ET has to be a Very Good Thing (I absolutely hate ET with a passion). Moore's run on Swamp Thing is another I've never read, although I've been intending to track it down for years. I've heard so many good things about it that I really have to read it sometime Before I Die.

Agreed. I liked Watchmen, but the very first Alan Moore work that I ever encountered was Marvelman and V For Vendetta, both in Warrior comic. Those are the stories that made me a fan of his work. For me, Watchmen, and everything else, was just stuff that "came later", and built on his already remarkable reputation.

Unattainable is the right word for it. There's never enough time, and always too much to read. I'll be lying on my death-bed, muttering "Hold on - I gotta read this before I snuff it"!

I'm sitting here on a quiet Sunday night, making a start on the mags. I'm at the Crikeys right now. Of course, I went for the colour ones first. YUM! They're gorgeous. Really professional looking.

I'm really enjoying the Marvelman article in #11. The classic Alan Moore version is my all-time favourite superhero strip.

Yeah, totally. You should see my SF book collection. I'll never read even 10% of them, even if I live 'til I'm 500 years old.

But I've been waiting for these particular mags for a long time now. I intend to drop everything else until I finish with these, and nothing is gonna get in my way (evil cackle).

Well, the Spaceship Aways arrived this morning. Just the Andersonics to go now, and I'll have the lot.

I opened the box, hands trembling with excitement, flicked through the magazines taking a quick glance at the front and back covers and contents pages, then set them down beside the stack of Crikeys and Dangerous Inks which have arrived during this past week. As I took a good look at this very impressive stack of magazines, my one thought was "Oh, wow! It'll take me until the New Year to read this lot!"

I've skimmed through everything, but haven't actually read anything in depth yet. I'm waiting for the Andersonics to arrive before I make a start on everything. And I'll need a few spare weeks free of any interruptions (fat chance of that) to make a dent in this pile of gorgeous reading material.

Oh, yes! A Best of Crikey #'s 1-10 colour special? You can put me down for that one right now! There are so many articles from the first ten issues that I would love to see in colour, that I wouldn't know where to begin.

I'm glad you got the payment, and many thanks for trusting me. I'm always a bit paranoid about the Royal Mail losing items, that I fret over everything until it actually arrives. They've lost quite a few things on me in the past - I almost ended up in court once because they lost a large payment that I'd sent to a book club! Lucky I'd kept the postal order stubs, or I'd have been snookered!

I treated myself to a whole bunch of nice stuff as an early Christmas present to myself - the Crikeys are the first to arrive, and I'm now waiting for the entire run of #'s 1-19 of Spaceship Away to arrive, as well as the latest couple of issues of Andersonic. I've got a LOT of lovely reading ahead of me. :)