(With thanks to Adam Thewlis and the team at the Italian 'All Star' blog): Here's a fun item for the weekend. There's a long tradition of artists featuring friends in comic strips as an in joke: Bryan Talbot, for example, regularly featured his friends from the Preston SF Club in The Adventures of Luther Arkwright and I know I made a one frame appearance in Death's Head II, drawn by Liam Sharp, as an AIM lab tech.
Here's a recent find, from DC Comics All Star Superman Issue 10 where, thanks to artist Frank Quitely, nestling on Page 14 are a group of Scottish comics talents. (For once, Grant Morrison hasn't written himself into a comic as he did most famously with Animal Man #25).
Gazing up at a mashed up Forth Bridge are, we're told, members or people connected with Frank's Glasgow Studio, some of them instrumental in the Bad Press publishing house that produces adult comic Wasted. From left to right in the panel above we have 1) Mal Young and his son, Angus; 2) David Boyd; 3) artist Dom Regan and his son Vincent; 4) Rob Miller (one of the contributors to the now-defunct comic zine Khaki Shorts); and
5) Jamie Grant.
Also in the frame, but not pictured above, are David Peter Kerr and Paul McCann.
Anyone else know of similar panels in recent British comics? (Alan Davis fun inclusions of Dan Dare and other heroes in his strips doesn't count!).
