Only an idiot, of course,would interview one member of a comic-strip creating team and forget to interview the other partner. So, just to prove my not interviewing Sheila for CB#3 was part of an over-all strategy -here’s the interview! [I wonder if anyone bought that excuse?] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ TH:Sheila,thank you for taking the time out to [...]
Terry was interviewed in COMIC BITS #3 and 5 as those with long memories will remember. I’ve never posted this online and it was, sadly, not included in The Hooper Interviews book. But for posterity…here you go! _____________________________________________ TH:Now,Terry,you went along to see Cos [Albert Cosser,Editor of WHAM!] over at Odhams when you were in [...]
It was over a year ago I up-dated this and so far the Hexagon and Wanga comics have not failed to make me a happy bunny (even if they cost more to buy from Europe!). So, here. Read. Enjoy and check out their site!! ************************************************************************************ Now, I think that everyone who is a regular CBO [...]
This interview may have been missed by some of you as it was first posted in…2010?!! Since that time Dave has kept going and is now producing Changelings as well as a line of verycollectible dolls based on the characters. So, let’s hear how ity all started! Above:David Gordon at the [...]
February 9, 2013 – 2:22 pm
Frank Barrell talks to Terry Hooper-Scharf about The Ultimate Game, The Cosmic Fulcrum and The Return Of The Gods! I’ve interviewed Terry a couple times before –the last time about his resurrection of an old UK Golden Age character in The Bat Triumphant. Not easy to interview someone who doesn’t like interviews and has [...]
Above: 1936(?) photograph of Herbert (“Herbie”) Kirby -top of steps. He was working on Bristol trams while writing short text stories for boys papers published by Target Publications of Bath. Mystery Of The Tombs in the 1935 Rattler comic may have been one of his pieces. Below: Fred Astaire in Top Hat (1935) Kirby told [...]
March 15, 2012 – 11:20 am
I feel that the Jean Marc Lofficer interview from last year needs a little airing so here we go in case you missed it the first time! ************************************************************************************ Now, I think that everyone who is a regular CBO visitor knows that I love European comics (you missed that?!) but in the last couple years one [...]
November 7, 2011 – 11:15 am
STEVE DOWLING INTERVIEW Around 1999, I had an email from the grandson of Steve Dowling who was living in Canada. I learnt that Steve had been bumped out of his job simply because he had reached 65 years of age (only in the UK!). He then spent many years living off a poor pension. Steve [...]
November 2, 2011 – 9:38 am
The Sensational JOHN ERASMUS! When I started up Black Tower Comics as a zine (Small Press) venture in the mid-1980s, there were two creators who seemed to pop up in almost every zine I came across. One was Ben R. Dilworth and the other was John Erasmus. Apart from the odd one off [...]
September 15, 2011 – 4:44 am
Now, I think that everyone who is a regular CBO visitor knows that I love European comics (you missed that?!) but in the last couple years one company has pressed my “Like Button” so many times that I’m quite dizzy! That company is Hexagon Comics. As I discovered, all these cool French characters from the [...]