katchoo and cloak for charity auctions

Katchoo art by Gary Spencer Millidge Katchoo (c) Terry Moore	The Return of the Cloak art by Gary Spencer Millidge The Cloak (c) Mike Higgs

As usual for the Bristol Comic Festival, Gary has contributed to the now traditional Deck of Cards - this time a top trumps style deck - with the card sets and original art to be auctioned off in aid of the charity ChildLine. From a list of comics characters that he'd never drawn before, Millidge picked out Terry Moore's Strangers In Paradise character Katchoo. It's painted in gouache on A3 (297 x 420 mm) watercolour board. Terry Moore apparently liked it so much that he has reproduced the art on the inside back cover of the current Strangers In Paradise #65.

If you can't get to the Bristol Comic Festival to bid on the art live, you can bid online prior to the live auction by 28th May by e-mailing your bid to thedarkertimes@aol.com. You can preview all the pieces of art due for auction at the very nifty official site at http://www.mogwog.com/sites/gallery/.

In addition, Millidge has also contributed to this year's Just 1 Page book, also to be launched at the Bristol show. The theme for this year's Just 1 Page is British comic characters, of which Gary landed his childhood favourite from the pages of Pow! and Wham!, Mike Higgs' creation The Cloak. Homer Simpson also puts in a cameo appearance. As last year, the Just 1 Page book has been produced by Adrian Brown and this year will raise money for the Trinity Hospice Charity. It's expected to run to 72 pages with 8 in full colour and will retail at £5.00 / $10.00 per copy, and will be available online from http://members.aol.com/just1page/J1P2004.htm

Millidge's original art for the Cloak strip will be available via an online eBay auction, more details from Ade at just1page@aol.com

[posted 25 May 2004]