2000AD #57 cover – 1978 Dave Gibbons cover

Wow! All this for 9p

Ha ha. Yes, and seven years earlier it might have been labelled as "9 New Earth Pennies". I'd say that 9p felt like quite a lot as a child at the time, but it was definitely worth every last (Galactic) Groat!

That Eagle craft looks so damn good!!! amazing 2000 AD cover art addition and early work by Gibbons. congrats!

Thanks Kavi! Gibbons was always superb at spacecraft and tech.

As a delusional kid I made a pathethic cardboard version of the Eagle craft out of cereal boxes turned inside out, cut and shaped. It had a hatch that opened  and some wondows for the pilots made out of cardboard and sellotape. It is funny the insane shit you do as a kid. I also made a bad attempt to turn an old action man into a Marvelman figure but gave up on that one too after painting him for the costume and then realising that he looked silly when I tried to move him as I could not paint all the areas without dismantling him. Double lol.

I find myself hoping that you still have the cardboard Eagle craft and Marvelman figure, Peter. Or at least photographs. You really must upload images of these to CAF for appreciation and comments, as craft of that level of ambition needs to be shared. Please don't disappoint us.

Long gone, thankfully for posterity. I do however still have my comics I made as a kid, including a fully colour penciled one which had shameless robberies  of other artists works and my mutant version of Dredd called Judge Budgie. Lol. A human body and budgie head. No one noticed because of the helmet presumably! And he has some sort of hypnotic mutant power that clouded perceptions. Cameras, you say? Kids do not think logically.

:-o That sounds amazing, Peter! Surely you're going to post that one on CAF - page by fabulous page! I think I may still have some comics I drew when I was about 8, and if I can find them I'll scan them and put them up. And I'll expect you to join in, of course.

Damn! A  Gibbons 2000 AD Dan Dare cover ! This looks amazing and oozes the look of a classic sci fi poster. Very Cool! 

Fantastic! 

This was one of the covers I dreamed of owning. Gibbons had long sold it when I asked his rep. Then my tastes changed and I gave up on Gibbons and sold or traded all the artwork I had by him. Funny how time changes all things, including obsessions. At one stage I would have jumped into a pit with a hungry wolf to fight for this. Lol. Same thing happened for me with Bolland and O'Neill.

Great floating head cover with fat outlines!  The Eagle heading into an asteroid field brings a hot rod feel served right up to the audience.  In this age of Star Wars, the bar had been raised and Gibbons stepped up in the fine tradition of Brit sci-fi illustration. 

Sockamagee!

Classic science fiction! Classic Gibbons! What's not to love!

Classic Dave Gibbons, the top 👍 

Great cover really makes the reader want to open the Prog and see what happens!  The Eagle ship design is fantastic, as expertly interpreted by Gibbons.  Cool talking heads too.  

As a side note, I recently found some very amateurish comics I drew as a kid (the Gulf Coast Avengers) but not sure I'm brave enough ro post them here on CAF.

Thanks, Brent! Well, I have a stack of embarrassing stuff that I'll be posting over the next few months, so I'd say "Go for it!". :-) It sounds like a great concept, so you could tag it onto a page. Or wait until you see how bad some of my other stuff is first...