Monday, March 18, 2013

English Comics Daily Diversion: Tiny Tots #934



Air Hawk and the Flying Doctor - ComicOZ


Comicoz have released an excerpt from their first volume of John Dixon's Air Hawk and the Flying Doctor via Issuu. This first collection features five complete Air Hawk stories, an interview with creator John Dixon, and a wealth of background and biographical information.

Comicoz publisher Nat Karmichael has commenced work on a second volume of Air Hawk and the Flying Doctor whilst the first 200 page collection published in 2010 is still available on order from Comicoz.

 
 Read an excerpt of Air Hawk from The Sun Herald here.

 Eddie Campbell cover for Air Hawk and the Flying Doctor Vol One.

Air Hawk and The Flying Doctor © 2013 John Dixon

Sunday, March 17, 2013

English Comics Daily Diversion: Playbox No's 1070, 1071



Kath King - Memory For Faces



Kath King adventure comic from the December 1952 issue Cavalcade. Illustrated by Phil Belbin, written by Sydney Ockenden.

Read Kath King - Diamonds of Death here.

Read Belbin's adaption of RKO Movie Out of the Past here.

Samples of Belbin illustration work and cartoons here.

Read a biography of Belbin by Greg Ray here.


 









Images © 2013 Estate of Phil Belbin

Saturday, March 16, 2013

English Comics Daily Diversion: Playbox Oct 7th 1950



Pikitia Press Publishing Update

All Pikitia Press comics have free shipping to anywhere in the world during the month of March.




Moa #1, a new edition of the first adventure of James Davidson's uniquely New Zealand comic, is now available for pre-order shipping on 29 March. Moa #1 was originally independently published as a black and white ashcan. Pikitia Press are proud to present a full size, full colour edition of the debut adventures of Possum Von Tempsky and Kiwi Pukupuku.

 


The third volume of Ballantyne: the Flaw in the Jewel by Peter Foster and James H Kemsley and recent mini-comic Adversaries by M.Emery are also now available from the Pikitia Press store.