Books and magazines about retro toys/cartoons/comics
Books and magazines about retro toys/cartoons/comics
Skyquake mentioning the He-Man Art Book in another thread, Dalek having just published a book about TF comics and Ryan F having plans for one got me thinking about a round-up of other tie-in publications. There are getting to be more of them as folk get older, publishing involves fewer barriers, etc etc. But no need to limit it to unofficial stuff.
I'm thinking less of well-served fandoms such as Doctor Who where there are dozens if not hundreds of unofficial books of articles, but again chime in to talk about anything you've found and liked, particularly if people are unlikely to stumble on it otherwise. Documentaries would count too. Long-hoped-for reprints? Why not, if it's about collecting and preserving the history of brand-type media.
General TV and film stuff is probably where I'd think a different thread was justified.
Entries marked with an asterisk are to my knowledge hard to find.
80s cartoons/comics in general
Cereal Geek magazine
http://www.cerealgeek.com/
Doctor Who comics
Vworp Vworp!*
http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Vworp_Vworp!
Fighting Fantasy Gamebooks
You Are The Hero
http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1909679364/
Knightmare
David Rowe's Art of Knightmare
http://www.davidrowe.net/shop.html
Masters of the Universe
Art of He-Man and the Masters of the Universe
http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1616555920/
The Power and The Honor Foundation Catalog Vol 1*
https://www.facebook.com/thepowerandthehonorfoundation
The Unofficial He-Man Cartoon Guide
http://www.bustatoons.com/heman_cartoon_guide/guide.htm
He-Man and the Masters of the Universe Minicomic Collection
http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1616558776/
He-Man and the Masters of the Universe: The Newspaper Comic Strips
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/150670073X
Thundercats
Hear The Roar
http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1845830385/
Transformers
Generations (toys)
http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Transformers_Generations
Legacy (box art)
http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1613779437
Transformation (UK comic)
http://thesolarpool.weebly.com/book-shop.html
Vault (misc)
http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0810998688
Visionaries
Visionaries Collector's Guide
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/51 ... escription
I'm thinking less of well-served fandoms such as Doctor Who where there are dozens if not hundreds of unofficial books of articles, but again chime in to talk about anything you've found and liked, particularly if people are unlikely to stumble on it otherwise. Documentaries would count too. Long-hoped-for reprints? Why not, if it's about collecting and preserving the history of brand-type media.
General TV and film stuff is probably where I'd think a different thread was justified.
Entries marked with an asterisk are to my knowledge hard to find.
80s cartoons/comics in general
Cereal Geek magazine
http://www.cerealgeek.com/
Doctor Who comics
Vworp Vworp!*
http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Vworp_Vworp!
Fighting Fantasy Gamebooks
You Are The Hero
http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1909679364/
Knightmare
David Rowe's Art of Knightmare
http://www.davidrowe.net/shop.html
Masters of the Universe
Art of He-Man and the Masters of the Universe
http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1616555920/
The Power and The Honor Foundation Catalog Vol 1*
https://www.facebook.com/thepowerandthehonorfoundation
The Unofficial He-Man Cartoon Guide
http://www.bustatoons.com/heman_cartoon_guide/guide.htm
He-Man and the Masters of the Universe Minicomic Collection
http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1616558776/
He-Man and the Masters of the Universe: The Newspaper Comic Strips
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/150670073X
Thundercats
Hear The Roar
http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1845830385/
Transformers
Generations (toys)
http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Transformers_Generations
Legacy (box art)
http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1613779437
Transformation (UK comic)
http://thesolarpool.weebly.com/book-shop.html
Vault (misc)
http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0810998688
Visionaries
Visionaries Collector's Guide
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/51 ... escription
This thing looks really good, shouldn't be long now until it's out.
http://www.he-man.org/news_article.php?id=4828
http://i.imgur.com/eabTzRy.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/HdmHfJM.jpg
http://www.he-man.org/news_article.php?id=4828
http://i.imgur.com/eabTzRy.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/HdmHfJM.jpg
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I'm reliably informed one of those is the Greatest Book Ever written.
Well, four and a half star average review rating on Amazon UK anyway. That's basically the same.
Well, four and a half star average review rating on Amazon UK anyway. That's basically the same.
REVIISITATION: THE HOLE TRUTH
STARSCREAM GOES TO PIECES IN MY LOOK AT INFILTRATION #6!
PLUS: BUY THE BOOKS!
STARSCREAM GOES TO PIECES IN MY LOOK AT INFILTRATION #6!
PLUS: BUY THE BOOKS!
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£15.30 on Amazon UK? Another example of Dark Horse bitchslapping Marvel and DC all over the place when it comes to VFM on hardcover stuff.
Shame their trades tend to be comparatively more expensive though.
Anyway, that's bloomin' fantastic value and I must own it.
Tangentially, have the 80s UK MotU comics ever been reprinted or made available online? That was my default continuity for the franchise and I'd like the chance to revisit it and find out it's awful.
Shame their trades tend to be comparatively more expensive though.
Anyway, that's bloomin' fantastic value and I must own it.
Tangentially, have the 80s UK MotU comics ever been reprinted or made available online? That was my default continuity for the franchise and I'd like the chance to revisit it and find out it's awful.
Kickstarter for the first of several volumes about 80s-90s G.I. Joe toys;
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/12 ... can-herotm
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/12 ... can-herotm
Looks like there'll be a big Visionaries retrospective book at some point, involving the Mapes brothers and crowdfunding:
https://twitter.com/VisionariesInfo
edit:
Also this turned up today from Amazon... the art style is very similar to the UK MOTU comics, although clearly different material and continuity:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/He-Man-Masters ... 150670073X
Dark Horse are doing a lot of fan-driven MOTU stuff, aren't they? This one driven by Danielle "Penny Dreadful" Gelehrter and some other folk. Great stuff, and reading about the recreation process (newsprint being so fragile and strips being broken down into panels for different printing contexts at the time, etc) gives some appreciation of the herculean work to find, layout and sequence things.
If anyone's come (or is further ahead with writing in at least one case for someone here, IIRC) across other books about stuff from this era, do say!
https://twitter.com/VisionariesInfo
edit:
Also this turned up today from Amazon... the art style is very similar to the UK MOTU comics, although clearly different material and continuity:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/He-Man-Masters ... 150670073X
Dark Horse are doing a lot of fan-driven MOTU stuff, aren't they? This one driven by Danielle "Penny Dreadful" Gelehrter and some other folk. Great stuff, and reading about the recreation process (newsprint being so fragile and strips being broken down into panels for different printing contexts at the time, etc) gives some appreciation of the herculean work to find, layout and sequence things.
If anyone's come (or is further ahead with writing in at least one case for someone here, IIRC) across other books about stuff from this era, do say!
Re: Books and magazines about retro toys/cartoons/comics
Might interest some -- Gamesmaster: The Oral History now in a general print run after the Kickstarter (which I didn't find out about at the time).
https://www.amazon.co.uk/GamesMaster-Or ... 500025916/
Not connected but also recommended, The Gamesmaster: My Life in the '80s Geek Culture Trenches with G.I. Joe, Dungeons & Dragons, and The Transformers being Flint Dille's auto-biography:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Gamesmaster-Cu ... 644280124/
There's probably a few other similar things from the last few years I'll add if I remember and think of.
edit: https://www.youtube.com/c/cerealgeekTV
https://www.amazon.co.uk/GamesMaster-Or ... 500025916/
Not connected but also recommended, The Gamesmaster: My Life in the '80s Geek Culture Trenches with G.I. Joe, Dungeons & Dragons, and The Transformers being Flint Dille's auto-biography:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Gamesmaster-Cu ... 644280124/
There's probably a few other similar things from the last few years I'll add if I remember and think of.
edit: https://www.youtube.com/c/cerealgeekTV