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Working purely from memory here, so please forgive errors or obvious :
Gibbons’s page is laid out to create a ‘hidden head effect’, which is why Artie Gruber (?) at the bottom of the page points up and said ‘Ooh, a Kneel Adams effect’, in reference to Neal Adams, who was known for this. See issue 20 of Cerebus for another example of this. Also, Gibbon’s page links with Gibson’s – the Dredd speech bubble is like a little dialogue between the artists.
The list of artists behind Dan Dare seems to be a reference to the early 1980s relaunch of Dan Dare and Eagle. Gerry Embleton was indeed the artist for the relaunched Dare (and, I thought, quite good, dunno what became of him).
Don’t know whereabouts it can be seen, but the original version of Bolland’s page was a lot more scathing (saw it at the time, god knows where), berating 2000AD for contantly reusing his work on T-Shirts, badges, foreign reprints etc, and the final picture with Dredd on the hobby-horse had the caption ‘Try reprinting this!’. And ironically, they did…kind of. That panel was reproduced in a copy of Paul Gravett’s ‘Escape’ at the time (issue 13 or thereabouts). |
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