{"id":1770,"date":"2008-01-27T14:10:33","date_gmt":"2008-01-27T14:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/?p=1770"},"modified":"2008-01-27T14:12:10","modified_gmt":"2008-01-27T14:12:10","slug":"the-daily-mirror-book-of-garth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2008\/01\/27\/the-daily-mirror-book-of-garth\/","title":{"rendered":"The Daily Mirror Book of Garth"},"content":{"rendered":"

(GARTH ANNUAL 1975)<\/em><\/p>\n

\"The<\/p>\n

By Jim Edgar<\/strong> & Frank Bellamy<\/strong> (IPC)
\nNo ISBN<\/p>\n

This wonderful Softcover book was released whilst the amazing Frank Bellamy was still alive and astounding fans with his phenomenal illustration and design on the Mirror’s long-running time-travelling adventure strip (for fuller background you could Google ‘Garth’ or even check out our own archives for Garth: The Cloud of Balthus <\/a>– ISBN: 0-90761-034-X or The Mirror Classic Cartoon Collection <\/a>– ISBN: 0-948248-06-8).<\/p>\n

This large tome is printed on thick newsprint and if you’re at all moved by the physical nature of comics as artefact, as well as the power of the work itself, the texture and even smell of such an item is as effective a time travel method as any used by our burly hero. Also, for some reason the art just seems to look better on off-white, gritty paper rather than the admittedly more durable slick and shiny stock favoured these days.<\/p>\n

So if you can track down this book – and there are still a few out there – you can luxuriate in the majesty of Bellamy and Jim Edgar’s masterful, sexy thrillers with the first collection of The Orb of Trimandias<\/em>, Ghost Town<\/em>, The Cloud of Balthus<\/em>, Women of Galba<\/em>, Sundance<\/em> (which Bellamy inherited from artist John Allard three weeks in) and Wolfman of Ausensee<\/em>. I will digress and admit that the all-original cover created for this last story was a major factor in reviewing this annual. It’s a sight every comic art fan ought to be familiar with.<\/p>\n

\u00c2\u00a9 IPC Magazines 1974.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(GARTH ANNUAL 1975) By Jim Edgar & Frank Bellamy (IPC) No ISBN This wonderful Softcover book was released whilst the amazing Frank Bellamy was still alive and astounding fans with his phenomenal illustration and design on the Mirror’s long-running time-travelling adventure strip (for fuller background you could Google ‘Garth’ or even check out our own … <\/p>\n

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