Camberwell Haul #3

Hauled my bones out of bed at 7am and jumped on the pushbike to the Camberwell Sunday Markets. Not a big haul this weekend, although there were piles of books, comics and other items of interest. A lady had a box of old newspapers from the 1950's, I think it was The Argus, lots of weekend editions with full colour pages of ye olde comic strips. I passed on them 'cause really what am I going to do with a box of old newspapers? But cool nevertheless. What I did get:

A couple English annuals for $5 each. 1984 Buster Annual and a Funnies album from 1957. 1984 was the first year I went to the local bookshop when all the Christmas Annuals came out and got to pick a couple to buy with my savings (2000ad and Whizzer and Chips). They were $5 each in 1984 which was a lot of money for a young lad back then. The Buster annual has a lot of brilliant big foot cartooning including my favourite as a kid, Ken Reid's Faceache. The Funnies album is great - cartoons from start to finish, no boring prose stories. Most of it is old English strips with a few interesting American reprints towards the end including a cool Basil Wolverton Spacehawk story.

Two of the early Titan 2000AD reprints. With great covers by Bolland and Mike McMahon. These were $3.00 each and worth it just for the covers alone. I've read this material a bunch of times, Judge Caligula being one of my all time favourite Dredd Epics. These editions have notoriously lousy bindings, I left a Cursed Earth volume behind for that reason although these are nice and solid.

The other book I picked up is a cartoon tutorial from 1944 by 'Armstrong' How to Draw 'Em. Using Grid tutorials the book details how you can draw popular world leaders and dictators of the time. Also included are some general cartooning tips for drawing all manner of people from the general public. A steal at $3.00.

Pages from Armstrong's How to Draw 'Em

Ron Turner doing a Leopard from Lime Street Strip

Ken Reid's Faceache

From inside Funnies Album 1957


Bambi's Mum was murdered by humans

All sorts of things turn up at the markets like dinosaur fossils
(might not actually be dinosaur fossils.)

People

Melbourne has some amazing street art

The Filthy Yarra River on my way home

BONUS MINI HAUL!!

After lunch I popped in the local op shop. They have a large bookcase in their foyer that they fill with pretty much any book that looks to be over 10 years old and sell them for 50 cents. I buy way more books than I could ever read but I like to have them around so I can dip into them, maybe read a chapter or two and then try something else. I do finish whole books on occasion and I often come back to books to finish half read ones. Miss Mai instructed me to buy Wuthering Heights for her no doubt inspired by this: