Age 12/13? | 1980/81? Han and Luke are on patrol on icy Hoth This comic has begun with the Imperial Star Destroyer above the planet Hoth, lauching probes, as I think the movie does. But neither the Marvel comic adaptation, the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
c.1982/83? | age 14/15? Another single panel page today, readers. I think I might do another bonus page tomorrow too, like I did yesterday. Art Notes “Wedge is the only Y-Wing left – that T.I.E. just cancelled another one!” Cancelled?[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
c.1978/79? | age 10/11? It’s a wibbly-wobbly, hard to read one today. It’s hard to tell when it was drawn, too. The stormtrooper, top-right looks to have been quite carefully copied from somewhere. I’m guessing it was from the Marvel[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A New Hope By Manuel Pinon – Cinemania Magazine In 1977, a 9 year old boy drew a 200 page comic book of his favourite movie. Its rediscovery more than three decades later has become a source of inspiration for[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Drawing Star Wars aged 9 The following is edited from the full article by Darren Slade of Amazing Stories Magazine website ONE Saturday afternoon in 1977, a nine-year-old boy came home from seeing Star Wars for the first time – and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Original and Best I internet-troll myself, for making all of thosechanges to the original version of Star Wars – the Irish comic adaptation; and I wonder about ‘Sandtroopers’ and… ‘Droide’? Sandtroopers? When was that moniker invented? I was[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
mid 1978? | age 10? The search for R2-D2 begins in this comic page from sometime in 1978, when I was 9 or 10 years old – so it’s one of my favourites. I suppose it’s impossible to convey the magical sense[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…