DoodleBug

North Yorkshire: DoodleBug, 1987-88.
First Edition.

29.5cm x 21cm. 5 issues, black and white illustrations. Illustrated saddle-stapled wrappers.

The first five issues (of eight) of a self-published comic created in North Yorkshire by cartoonist Royston Robertson (b. 1968) with a group of sixth-form friends, in imitation of the recently-successful Viz. Each issue was printed in a run of 1,000 copies and distributed by the group themselves to local shops and pubs. The comic was reviewed in Record Mirror and championed on BBC Radio One by John Peel. Ending after eight issues when Roberston went onto university; he later worked as a journalist and sub-editor at The Times, before becoming a full-time cartoonist in 2004 contributing to Private Eye, The Spectator, and other periodicals. “Hundreds of zany japes about things such as Australians, baseball, beards, bears, beasties, birds, boredom, cartoonists, cliches, cockneys, doors, drugs, eggs, fish, game-shows, Geordies, graffiti, hangovers, Hitler, hooliganism, ignorance, Max Headroom, money, mops, murder, necks, nonsense, noses, nuclear waste, pearls, Picasso, prisons, punctuality, quadrangles, sado-masochism, sex, sex, spiders, spontaneous combustion, suicide, toe nails, tortoises, the obvious, werewolves and yuppies!” (from the cover of No. 1) Unrecorded in OCLC.

Minor soiling to cover of issue 4. Near Fine Condition.

AU$400