Does the UK have a strong capeshit comics scene? Or even comics in general. I know about 2000AD and the old Marvel UK stuff but I havent been able to find anything else. Watching 'Spaced' made it out to be huge over there.
Also, UK comic recommendations.
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>capeshit
Nah that's basically contained to America
UK doesn't do capeshit and all of the British writers who want to do it just go to Marvel and DC (but mostly DC).
Yeah DC talent scouted the hell out of 2000AD in the 80's and earl 90's which pretty much lead to that magazine's dark age until Rebellion bought them
Capeshit in general isn't that popular in Europe. France and Belgium share the title of being the 2nd most comic-crazy countries in the world (with Japan as 1st) and the mainstream stuff there is mostly fantasy and sci-fi.
Short answer: no.
Long answer: nope.
>implying popular anime isn't just badly done capeshit
Nowhere has a strong capeshit comic scene.
Does Zenith count?
Karen Berger specifically was at the forefront of that talent scouting, and part of the reason she was so successful was because of how terribly the British publishers had treated their producers, whether they were writers, artists, inkers, letterers or editors - the 2000AD documentary went into heartbreaking detail about it. Artists and writers didn't even get credited until people like Kevin O'Neil started defying orders.
Considering Zenith was snarled up in legal difficulties until very recently probably not. Its quite good though.
For British made comics it's basically just 2000ad and The Beano, but what comic fans there are over here are dedicated as hell.
We used to have some sort of capeshit -- Pulp stories that had stuff like master thieves and soldiers. The sci-fi elements were basically capeshit but never any real sort of superpowered characters.
UK comics are mostly still aimed at children, but the entire sector today is probably less than the Beano was selling 30 years ago.
There's a few original UK titles (like Toxic, or The DFC/The Phoenix) which are (as is customary in the UK) anthology titles. There's also Viz, which is aimed at adults and features strips which (usually) parody the classic British comic strips of the Beano, Dandy etc. from, like, 50 years ago. Also, Drunken Bakers is recommended. You can probably find a collection of it by now.
Beyond that, the sector mostly comprises reprint (of UK and US material). While you can find kid's titles in any newsagent, and Marvel/DC reprint is starting to creep into that market, superhero comics are mostly confined to specialist outlets as in the US.
Spaced is a sort of niche product itself, and very much a product of the turn of the century. I would say there's a kind of general understanding of comic books and sci-fi/fantasy among the general populace, in that most people will get references.
The Beano still outsells DC's US sales of Batman annually. Admittedly the Beano is a weekly, but it sells something crazy like 1.8 million copies each year and more than half of those by subscription, compared to Batman's sales of around 100,000 to 140,000 copies monthly (averaging something like 1.4 million annually; last year's figures for Batman were all over the place because of Rebirth's #1 and the inflation of Diamond's figures by returnable copies, but even with double shipping this year the Beano is likely to outsell Batman again. In a country 1/5 the size.
Thanks for this user. I was just finding myself enjoying Spaced and a lot of UK related (is this the correct term - UK?) comedy(IT crowd, The Mighty Boosh, shitty quiz shows hosted by Jimmy Carr, etc.) and was wondering about the comics scene as well.
No problem.
UK (short for United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) is the preferred term for the country and the citizenship it confers, British is the (usually) preferred term for the people.
Glad you're enjoying it.
do you know who's the artist to this, I've seen this in heavy metal.
Greg Staples user.He is pretty amazing.
The death of The Dandy killed me
Nah, that's Ladrönn, from Final Incal. Staples has only done a couple of covers for Heavy Metal, far as I know. Tho' I could be wrong.
>Greg Staples
I think it is his Staples user.
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I found Don Lawrence a good comic artist
I liked the trigan empire series very much
Check out the sig at the bottom left on that Incal pic. It's Ladrönn and Jodo.
Plus, far as I know there's only one Greg Staples working on comics right now.
After he got problems with his publisher, he worked for dutch comic magazines with Martin Lodewijk on Storm which had some of the best graphics of the eighties.
For the rest I only heard of the english Dennis the Menace, but I never read that.
I believe this was also a british comic from the same guy who later worked on the Gorillaz bandmembers