Sydney Jordan lined up for Bristol Comic Expo appearance

Along with a host of special events and Expo exclusives, including a huge 2000AD panel featuring the likes of Patrick Goddard, Gordon Rennie and Sean Phillips, a preview of the new Alan Moore: Storyteller book by Gary Spencer Milidge, a special STRIP Magazine launch promotion with John Freeman, Jim Campbell, Jim Alexander and Jasper Bark - and much more - it's now confirmed that Sydney Jordan, the creator of the great Daily Express newspaper strip Jeff Hawke, will again be at the event in May.

"Last year's Bristol International Comic Expo was a great success for the Jeff Hawke Club and we're coming back this year," says the club's organiser, Will Rudling.

Sydney Jordan will be on hand to talk about Hawke and his other comics work along with Will Rudling,  Editor and Founder of the Jeff Hawke Club, and master model maker Chris Tubb.
 

Jeff Hawke original artwork will be on sale. 

The Club has almost completed reprinting all the early Jeff Hawke stories in its magazine, Cosmos, and is beginning to shift its emphasis on his transformation into Lance McLane/ Jeff Hawke. 

"We will be reprinting the Earthspace strips and subsequent stories in sequence," says Will. "The scenario is of a post-apocalyptic Earth struggling to survive and is very timely. Jeff and his android companion, Fortuna encounter fantastic adventures and deal with environmental issues. 

"This shows Sydney’s unique interpretation on the subject and the amazing plots he creates. It’s incredible how relevant they are now and so prophetic, they were since written 35 years ago!"

• For more about the Bristol International Comic Expo go to www.fantasyevents.org/bristolcomicexpo/index.html 

• Jeff Hawke's Cosmos is on sale by subscription, which costs £20 per year for three issues. Subscriptions can be sent to The Jeff Hawke Club, 6 The Close, Alwoodley, Leeds LS17 7RD, United Kingdom. Web: www.jeffhawkeclub.com

Castaways and Comets! It's the new issue of Jeff Hawke's Cosmos...

The latest bumper issue of Jeff Hawke's Cosmos - a magazine devoted to Syd Jordan's space explorer, whose daily newspaper strip once ran in the Daily Express - is now available from the Jeff Hawke Club.

Volume 6 Number 2 is a 120-page issue that includes three complete stories - 'The Castaway', in which an alien crashlands in Canada and his arrival causes havoc; 'The Wondrous Lamp', in which Earth faces a potentially alien invasion, but the danger comes in a small package; and 'The Comet's Tale', pitting space ace Hawke against his arch-nemesis, Chalcedon, whose actions to save Earth prove, of course, not entirely altruistic.

It's a brave creator that agrees to have his work deconstructed alongside its reprinting, but as ever, Duncan Lunan provides fascinating commentaries on all three stories, often questioning the science in stories but, we thinks, never the storytelling, which has made Jeff Hawke such a memorable newspaper strip, which featured in the Express between 1955 and 1974.

Each issue of Jeff Hawke's Cosmos offers three entire strips with articles relating to each story, plus features covering astronomy, aviation, science fiction and comic strip heroes from the 20th century.


If that isn't enough, Sydney Jordan, creator of Jeff Hawke also adds his personal views and comments in each issue. It's a great package.

• Jeff Hawke's Cosmos is on sale now by subscription, which costs £20 per year for three issues. Subscriptions can be sent to The Jeff Hawke Club, 6 The Close, Alwoodley, Leeds LS17 7RD, United Kingdom. Web: www.jeffhawkeclub.com

Latest Jeff Hawke's Cosmos Now Available

Has it really been five years since Bill Rudling started publishing Cosmos?

Titan's series of Jeff Hawke books may have stopped after two titles but Bill's 84 page, A4 sized zine which reprints complete stories from the Daily Express' daily Jeff Hawke strip created, illustrated and often written by Sydney Jordan, is now coming to the end of its fifth year with a sixth year planned.

Volume 5 Number 3 includes the complete Jeff Hawke stories Faery Land Forlorn from 1964, The Engine That Worked On Grass from 1967 (as illustrated on the front cover) and Rogue Star from 1968/69.

In addition there are detailed articles on each story by Duncan Lunan as well as articles on Rick Random and the little remembered Time And Ms Jones strip from the Sunday Times written by Marise Morland and illustrated, in part, by Sydney Jordan.

A subscription Jeff Hawke's Cosmos for three issues costs £20 in the UK, £30 overseas. Cheques made payable to Jeff Hawke Club with a stamped addressed envelope should be sent to: The Jeff Hawke Club, 6 The Close, Alwoodley, Leeds, LS17 7RD, United Kingdom.

There are more details on the Jeff Hawke Club website.

Latest Jeff Hawke's Cosmos Available

The latest issue of Jeff Hawke's Cosmos, Volume 5 Number 2, is now available. Bill Rudling's mammoth 88-page B&W A4 fanzine with colour covers continues to provide full length reprinted Jeff Hawke stories from the Daily Express newspaper.

The cover features the spaceships from 'Out Of Touch' written by Harry Harrison with art, of course, by Sydney Jordan. This 30 page story was originally published in 1957 & 1958 and features an introduction by Sydney as well as a post story commentary by Duncan Lunan. The other two stories featured in this issue are 'Made In Birmingham', written by Willie Patterson, which dates from 1965 and takes Jeff Hawke and his friends to the Middle East and 'The Changeling', also by Willie Patterson, which was originally published in 1963 and features aliens attempting to kidnap human babies.

The magazine also includes Duncan Lunan's regular factual astronomy column The Sky Above You, plus comics articles Who Rules Britain? (In The Comics That Is) by Ralph Morton and Part 13 of the regular Space Heroes articles. In this part, Andrew Darlington focuses on the American SF comic strip character, Brick Bradford.

• Cosmos is only available by subscription from The Jeff Hawke Club, 6 The Close, Alwoodley, Leeds LS17 7RD or by e-mailing jeffhawkeATbillybee.plus.com. UK rates are £18.50 for three issues, overseas rates are £28.

Cosmos Fireworks

The latest issue of the Jeff Hawke magazine Cosmos is now available from the Jeff Hawke Fan Club (www.jeffhawkeclub.com)

Issue One of the fifth volume of the magazine edited by William Rudling features several stories, including Uncanny Deep, plus features on the strips and more.

• A subscription to Volume 5 costs £18.50 in the UK, £28 overseas. Overseas members £28. Please send your cheques made payable to Jeff Hawke Club with a stamped addressed envelope to: The Jeff Hawke Club, 6 The Close, Alwoodley, Leeds LS17 7RD United Kingdom

• Also available are slipcases to contain your back issues of the Magazine. Stylish and durable, they'll protect your club magazines for light years. Price £8.50p, including postage and packing. Overseas members; Europe £9.80, World £11.80.

Jeff Hawke's Cosmos Reached Fifth Year

The latest issue of Jeff Hawke's Cosmos will soon go to press, featuring the usual splendid assortment of strips from the Daily Express and back up features about the space-faring RAF pilot.

Coming in at 84 pages with three complete strips a subscription to Volume 5 costs just £18,50 for UK members (for three issues) and £28 for overseas members £28. Please pay in £GB.
The editor can be contacted at: The Jeff Hawke Club, 6 The Close, Alwoodley, Leeds, LS17 7RD
Please enclose an sae for a reply, or you can email him at: jeffhawke@billybee.plus.com

• More info at www.jeffhawke.com

Jeff Hawke's Cosmos 4.3

The latest issue of Jeff hawke's Cosmos is now out.

The magazine (exclusive Sydney Jordan painted cover artwork shown left) has bulked up for this issue, pushing the page count up to 80 A4 pages and going perfect bound.

The issue contains the following three complete Jeff Hawke stories:

• 'Here be Tygers' (Daily Express 08/10/71-01/02/72 but incomplete, completed in Staburst and others in 1978)

• 'SOS' (Daily Express 09/12/69-10/03/70)

• 'Rescue Party' (Daily Express 11/3/70-01/07/70)


All strips are accompanied by Duncan Lunan's comprehensive notes placing strips in historical and literary context. In addition, Andrew Darlington continues his look at 1950's space heores by considering Ron Turner's 'Space Ace'.
The editor can be contacted at:
The Jeff Hawke Club, 6 The Close, Alwoodley, Leeds, LS17 7RD
Please enclose an sae for a reply, or you can email him at: jeffhawke@billybee.plus.com
Subscription rates are as follows:
£18.50 for 3 issue (UK)
Overseas members: £28 air mail, or 38 euro's, IBAN payment £28, paypal payment £30
and there's always http://www.jeffhawke.com/

Jeff Hawke Back Issues

Back issues of Jeff Hawke's Cosmos and one of the special editions are now available from the SF strip's fan club. These are as follows:

Volume 1: Numbers 1, 2, 3 available
Volume 2: Numbers 1, 2, available
Volume 3: Numbers 1, 2, 3 available
Volume 4: Numbers 1, 2, available

Hawke's Notes Supplement to strips in Volume 1, Numbers 1 and 2 Price £3.50p inc. p&p. are also on offer.

Lunar 10 available is available. This special bumper collection of Jeff Hawke strips and features costs £26 in the UK, including p&p Europe, £30.75. Overseas Postage: Australia, North America - paper rate, airmail = £36-51p, 192pp

The Martian Quartet second edition, to be published in Spring 2008. Price to be announced.

Payment can be by PayPal to jeffhawke@billybee.plus.com or by International Money Order, IBAN in £GB only 9and cheque in the UK), made payable to: The Jeff Hawke Club.

Send orders to The Jeff Hawke Club, 6 The Close, Alwoodley, Leeds LS17 7RD UK

Jeff Hawke's Cosmos

The latest issue of Jeff Hawke's Cosmos, Vol 4 Number 2, is now available. Bill Rudling's 72 page A4 fanzine continues to provide full length reprinted Jeff Hawke stories from the Daily Express newspaper.

The cover comes from The Helping Hand a story from 1964/65 concerning motor racing, a theme which runs through the issue with Hawke creator Sydney Jordan's article on artist and driver Nick Faure. However the Hawke strip's normal association with alien planets and spacecraft are not forgotten with On The Run from 1973, while then modern aircraft are the subject of Wildcat from 1966.

Hawke's Notes, written by Duncan Lunan, continue to detail the minutiae of the stories in a DVD commentary style, and the issue is rounded off with Andrew Darlington's article on Captain "Space" Kingley, a series of annuals from the early 1950s painted by RW Jobson.

Cosmos is only available by subscription from :

The Jeff Hawke Club, 6 The Close, Alwoodley, Leeds, LS17 7RD

E-Mail: jeffhawkeATbillybee.plus.com

UK rates are £16.50 for three issues, overseas rates are £26.

Jeff Hawke - Lunar 10

The Jeff Hawke Club have released their Cosmos special, Lunar 10. This 192 page softcover book collects 10 different complete Jeff Hawke stories set on the Moon.

It includes Time Out Of Mind, originally published in the Daily Express in 1959, in which the strip predicts the first man would walk on the Moon on 4 August 1969. It was only 14 days out.

The book includes new introductions by Hawke creator and artist Sydney Jordan for each story plus detailed Hawke’s Notes by Duncan Lunan giving background information on various aspects of each of the 10 stories.

• Lunar 10 is only available through the Jeff Hawke Club, 6 The Close, Alwoodley, Leeds, LS17 7RD.