Ken Reid! His Complete Wham!, Smash! and Pow! Strips

Irmantas Povilaika

2 comics

Hardcover 208 pp

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Back in the 1960's and 70's, Ken's pages stood in splendid isolation above the work of his fellow cartoonists - they were unique and had a style unto themselves. True, they may have been a superficial similarity to the work of Basil Wolverton in some of Ken's weird faces, but it was more the 'weirdness' that was similar, as opposed to the inking or storytelling aspects of Ken's art. Other cartoonists gave readers things to laugh at, but Ken also gave them things to cringe at and linger over - great dollops of grotty grotesqueness to study while they chuckled. The strips that he drew for WHAM!, SMASH! and POW! - three of the five comics published in Odhams Press in the swinging 60's and collectively known as Power Comics - have never been equalled, and reveal one of UK's top cartoonists at the peak of his creativity.

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Ken Reid

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