UK Music paper Cartoon strips!

Here's a genre even Crikey magazine hasn't touched on yet! Cartoon strips in the UK Music papers! `Disc & Music Echo` had the surreal `J.Edward Oliver` strip (featuring "Elf Garnett") I have the first three years of it! Started in Summer 1970! " Freak out man!


From 1972 the NME (After its radical overhaul) employed Ray Lowry to do one-off cartoons! My two faves were the one with the `way-out` WWI scene where a Soldier reports to his superior "Sir! It's hell out there; someone's put Psychedelics in the Mud!!" The second was a crash scene with skid marks and wreckage strewn assunder from a head on crash!....... Two Snails!!

Lowry then went on to create the immortal "Lone Groover" ("Erk! Alors!") Who even released an E.P (I used to own a copy) The L.G was a highlight of the paper!

Then there was the space saga of `Brian.B` whose Budgie `Kurt` just sat on his perch all day doing B****r all! I laughed so much at Brian B's encounter with the Deathship Jetherson I did it in me pants! (Almost!) Great stuff!

Interesting-this is a subject I know very little about, at least beyond Axel Pressbutton (the psychotic cyborg who started life in Dark Star in 1979 and then moved into Sounds before becoming a regular in Warrior).

Oops! silly me! It was Tony Benyon who created the "Lone Groover" Ray Lowry did the single panel work! He used to do a running gag in many of them-insetting birds -eye views of his balding head with running commentary on the current state of the devestation (hair loss)

His best one was one where he drew a panel of himself sporting a sort of headband with a cross on the front of it. An inscription underneath read "In Loving Memory of 2.000 dear departed" That man had a bigger hang up about receding hair than Elton John!

Alan Moore's The Stars My Degradation published in the music paper Sounds, early 1980s I think. It was such a wonderful piss-take on Marvel comics of the time such as the X Men.[img][/img]

alanultron5 wrote:Oops! silly me! It was Tony Benyon who created the "Lone Groover" Ray Lowry did the single panel work! He used to do a running gag in many of them-insetting birds -eye views of his balding head with running commentary on the current state of the devestation (hair loss)

His best one was one where he drew a panel of himself sporting a sort of headband with a cross on the front of it. An inscription underneath read "In Loving Memory of 2.000 dear departed" That man had a bigger hang up about receding hair than Elton John!

I think the only reason I bothered with NME was The Lone Groover. It was certainly the best thing in NME at the time.