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maltatoday, SUNDAY, 23 NOVEMBER 2014 THIS WEEK 41 What was the comics scene in Britain like when you first started out? How did it change over the years? There were a lot more comics around in the UK in 1983 than there are today. IPC and DC Thomson were big rivals and both companies were producing several humour and adventure weeklies. Marvel UK were producing various reprint comics but they were also doing brand new British strips such as Captain Brit- ain by Alan Moore and Alan Davis in 'The Daredevils' monthly (the comic where I sold my first cartoon to). Yet even in the 1980s the British comics market was getting weaker than it had been. There was a grad- ual shift from weekly frequency (which had always been the norm for decades) to more fortnightly and monthly titles. Publishers were also starting to do more comics related to licensed properties, toys, TV shows, and suchlike. Over the years that has become the norm. These days most comics and magazines for children are related to a licensed character, and carry more activity pages than comic strip. On a more positive Beano artist heads to our shores TEODOR RELJIC speaks to veteran British artist Lew Stringer ahead of his visit to Malta Comic Con next weekend. Stringer's work for Marvel and DC put him on the map, but local audiences will be attuned to his more recent stint at The Beano, the weekly British humour comic that is something of a UK institution Continues next page > Lew Stringer