NEWS ITEM
DAVID HINE’S TREASURE FROM THE ARCHIVE
Posted: December 31, 2011Leading comics scribe and writer-artist of the excellent Strange Embrace, David Hine, has been posting ‘Odds & Sods’ from his ‘archive’ over on his daily updated blog. In his latest trove, Odds & Sods 2 he reminisces after unearthing a copy of the first issue of Escape.
Hine writes: “The wraparound cover by Phil Elliott made clear the intention to marry the energy of British creators with the sensibilities of the new European Bandes Dessinées. Contributors included Myra Hancock, Hunt Emerson, Eddie Campbell, Rian Hughes and…none other than Mr Shaky Kane. Will you look at that? Spread across the centre pages, four cut-out-and-keep postcards. It looks like another Classic Kane!” The colours for this free-gift centre-fold postcard set satirising Bazooka Joe bubblegum comics were hand-separated by co-founder/co-publishers/ace designer Peter Stanbury. What few people know is that due to a production glitch, the small triangle of the green train through young Gimbley’s left arm came out in yellow, as the blue overlay went missing, so every cover had to be tipped in by hand with a blue pen to make that yellow piece green. A handful of copies slipped through with that triangle still in yellow - collector’s item alert!
Hine also digs up the super-rare A6-size mini-comic typewriter-set prospectus that preceded it in late 1982, published to coincide with the ICA’s Graphic Rap exhibition in London and with a film noir cover by Peter Stanbury. Hine spotlights his Bulletproof Coffin collaborator Shaky Kane’s full-page William Burroughs-inspired contribution to this as well. Enjoy these blasts from the past as we wish you all a Very Happy New Year!
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