There is easiest one ingredient particular in life and that’s the rationale accidentally or invent nothing lasts without extinguish. Right here’s my supreme blog publish right here and Blimey! will no longer be updated after this day. I would possibly smooth withhold the blog to publish your comments but there received’t be any fresh posts.
My other blog, LewStringerComics, which is solely about my maintain comic strips past and fresh, will continue, so I am hoping most of you’re going to join me over there.
http://lewstringercomics.blogspot.com
I modified into going to title this ‘The Last Submit’, but I’d already previous that the supreme time I finished working a blog in 2012, easiest to get back months later. This time though it shall be everlasting.
Why am I bringing Blimey! to a halt? Neatly, a desire of reasons in actual fact. Within the foundation, after 13 years, I in actual fact feel I’ve lined the total comics and strips that I obligatory to focus on. “I’ve done my bit” because it had been. My initial incentive in doing this blog modified into because again then there modified into so runt files about previous British comics online so I obligatory to stability things out moderately and share what runt files I had on the topic from Ally Sloper to supreme week’s Beano.
I modified into also keen to advertise fresh comics from the monumental talent that’s accessible. Unfortunately nowadays I felt that Blimey! went moderately off target and grew to turn out to be extra about previewing upcoming comics than about focusing on the past. Some folks obtained moderately entitled unfortunately, with folks I’d never heard of sending me press releases marked For Instantaneous Launch to advertise their comics without even a please or thanks. (They went straight into the bin!) I modified into extra than joyful to advertise 2000AD, The League of Unprecedented Gentlemen, The Treasury of British Comics, Commando, Beano, Panini UK, and the total comics created by chums within the industry equivalent to David Leach, Jessica Martin, Rachael Smith, John A. Rapid and tons others but no longer those by total strangers taking support. Plus there would possibly possibly be easiest so many hours in a day and I’d must be working a blog plump time to duvet all the pieces!
Down the Tubes already experiences / previews hundreds fresh comics in its maintain improbable contrivance, and extra in-depth than I establish it, so it modified into a fracture of time and effort to honest mirror each other’s output. (It’s no longer admire we’re competing for of us’s earnings admire newspapers establish. Blogs are free to hold and free to to read so the need of hits are beside the purpose.)
Producing a blog is time involving, seriously researching previous comics, scanning pages, and tons others. (Yes, I know some bloggers simply nick photography from other web sites but I construct no longer.) As I discussed on my other blog this hasn’t been an valid 365 days and I non-public to focal point entirely on my profession from now on. An hour or two researching, scanning, and writing a publish about an previous arena of Lion or Radio Fun is a distraction I will no longer come up with the money for. Even this publish has taken about a hours to develop after I non-public to had been engaged on one thing else.
I’ve also noticed that the put some are involved my reputation as a blogger is overshadowing my work as a comic e book artist. Now not that there would possibly possibly be one thing injurious with working a blog but I construct no longer desire to be fully defined by it. I’ve never thought of myself as a “comics historian”, honest a comics creator who’s conscious of moderately about some intervals of comics (essentially the 1960s), and I’ve referred to books by honest historians equivalent to Denis Gifford, Ray Moore, Steve Holland and others to glean out about earlier decades.
Now and then this 365 days, doing this blog has felt moderately of a chore so it’s for certain time to let race. That acknowledged, I’ve absolute confidence there shall be times after I would possibly miss the bustle to share files whenever I glean one thing out about an previous comic, but I am hoping to make contributions extra articles to Silly Scene journal next 365 days to scratch that itch.
I’ve in actual fact enjoyed creating this blog though and I’ve favored your solutions within the comments. Neatly, rather than about a trolls and danger-makers, but they’ll come to no proper pause in a roundabout contrivance. The monumental majority of you non-public gotten been a pleasure to remark with and I’m joyful that this runt blog has both sparked some nostalgic reminiscence, presented you to comics you never knew about, or helped to advertise your work. My thanks to you for following it over time.
Blimey! received’t be deleted. It’ll live because it’s, but simply received’t non-public any fresh posts added to it. You will smooth be in a position to commentary on previous posts, and I would possibly acknowledge.
As I acknowledged above, my other blog will continue being updated so I am hoping many of you’re going to join me over there.
http://lewstringercomics.blogspot.com
You would possibly possibly well well presumably additionally glean me on my public Fb web bid:
https://www.fb.com/lewstringercartoonist
…and at my website:
http://www.lewstringer.com
…and on Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/lew.stringer/
It’s on the lewstringercomics blog the put I would possibly retain you updated relating to the comics and initiatives I’m engaged on equivalent to the intense Cor!! Buster Easter Special that’s coming next 365 days with a three web bid Buster and Delbert strip I’m drawing from a script by John Freeman.
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There are clearly other blogs accessible to withhold you educated relating to the UK comics scene. The fitting by some distance, individually, is John Freeman’s Down the Tubes blog, the put you’re going to glean the latest news on 2000AD, Commando, and pretty considerable all the pieces that’s occurring in British comics. It is also an supreme repute to let folks be taught about your fresh comics whenever you’re self-publishing:
https://downthetubes.decide up
There is also Steve Holland’s Undergo Alley blog, for terribly neatly researched articles on traditional arena topic:
https://bearalley.blogspot.com
Richard Sheaf’s Boys Inch Comics blog:
http://boysadventurecomics.blogspot.com
For the latest news on the Surprise Collectors Editions published by Panini UK the categorical repute is from their legitimate Fb web bid:
https://en-gb.fb.com/MarvelCollectorsEditions/
Likewise, the categorical repute for news relating to the upcoming Treasury of British Comics collections is right here:
https://en-gb.fb.com/britcomics/
Genuine repute for indie comics author Kult Creations:
http://kultcreations.blogspot.com
Genuine repute for indie author Time Bomb Comics:
http://timebombcomics.com
Irmantas Povilaika’s Kazoop! blog for hundreds classics by Ken Reid and others:
http://kazoop.blogspot.com
Phil Boyce’s Oink! Weblog and Beyond for parts on Oink! and other comics of the 1980s and beyond:
http://the-oink-blog.blogspot.com
Peter Grey’s Comics and Art blog for frequent comics:
http://petergraycartoonsandcomics.blogspot.com
Colin Noble’s blog:
https://nothingbutafan.wordpress.com
…and you’re going to additionally glean hyperlinks to many other blogs and web sites within the correct hand sidebar of this blog (whenever you’re discovering out this on a desktop pc).
For this blog though, right here is the pause, so I thanks interested by your time and passion, desire you a Satisfied Unique Year, and hope to ask you in 2020 over at
http://lewstringercomics.blogspot.com
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