7/22/2023 0 Comments Meltdown comics artistThis was before the time of now widely-used internet, let’s not forget! I’d spend hours on the phone, calling each one individually, asking if they had or knew of any 2000AD artwork for sale. I found Comics International a great help in locating artwork thanks to its directory of comic shops. I also attended a comics convention at Birmingham NEC and met great guys like Dale Jackson and Pete Smith, who I also bought artwork off of as well. In that publication there was an advert for a company called Aargh!, who I later visited and got many, many pages of artwork from them. Whilst there, I picked up a magazine called Comics international edited by Dez Skinn. I took a trip to London to visit it, and bought a piece of artwork. Robert: A long time ago, in the very early 1990s, I had the idea to buy some artwork and found a shop in London called Comic Showcase. Morgan: How did you get into art collecting? I used to read comics like Victor, where the artwork was a bit more “formal”, for want of a better word, so when I saw Massimo’s Dan Dare with its fantastic living spaceships and grotesque aliens, it kind of blew my mind a bit!Ī Dan Dare double page spread for 2000AD Prog 10, by Massimo Belardinelli, as published It was Massimo’s depiction of Dan Dare that first drew me to his artwork. I’ve had a long-standing love of his artwork for over 40 years, so I guess if it was going to wear off it would of by now, Robert: My favourite artist is, unquestionably, Massimo Belardinelli. Morgan Spiceman: Who is your favourite artist or artists? Morgan Spiceman interviews him about his hobby… Robert Cox is a British Comic art collector who has been collecting mainly 2000AD artwork since the early 1990s. Home › Comics › British Comics › 2000AD › Collecting Comic Art: An Interview with 2000AD art collector Robert CoxĬollecting Comic Art: An Interview with 2000AD art collector Robert Coxīy downthetubes Guests on February 26, 2020
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