was popular I was sure
we could do better!”

Interestingly, in the Billy The Cat series he was later to be hunted
as a vigilante by authorities who did not like what he was doing.
Likewise, The Leopard was also hunted down at one point. In fact, a
number of British comic crime-fighters found themselves not just ducking
the crooks out for revenge but also the very side they were fighting
for!

Towns, cities, villages, countryside, coastal locations –all featured
in some very fun stories that endure in the memory to this day. And
not a bloody skyscraper in sight!

When UK creators were recruited to save the ailing US comic companies
such as DC in the 1980s (I was at those UK comic art conventions
watching how desperate they were to recruit British talent –and in some
cases introduced both partiesin Black Tower Super Heroes amongst more modern day strips. Big collections that do not sell are too much work.

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THE UKs LARGEST INDEPENDENT COMICS PUBLISHER
Between 1984-1994 I worked freelance as a writer/artist/editor/agent in comics as well as comics journalism for MU Press,Blue Comet Press,Fantagraphic Books,Eros Comics,Dorne,Fleetway,IPC and others in the United States,UK and Europe. During this period I also produced large numbers of single panel gag cartoons for agencies in Germany such as Boiselle-Lohmann and Baaske Agency –these going to magazines and publications around Europe. I also worked as a freelance editor in comics and publications ranging from wildlife,astronomy and science fiction magazines.
From 1984 to present I've been self publishing comics as well as publications on a wide variety of subjects under the Black Tower