• Not cheerful but honest! A GI faces grim reality
  • An art print on textured white paper featuring a bold comic-style illustration in black, white, and red. The central figure wears a military-style helmet with a chevron insignia and smokes a cigarette, with a speech bubble above.
  • Not cheerful but honest! A GI faces grim reality
  • Not cheerful but honest! A GI faces grim reality
  • An art print on textured white paper featuring a bold comic-style illustration in black, white, and red. The central figure wears a military-style helmet with a chevron insignia and smokes a cigarette, with a speech bubble above.
  • Not cheerful but honest! A GI faces grim reality

Not cheerful but honest! A GI faces grim reality

£48.00

A hard man doesn't shirk the reality of his situation. Love it.

Hand-pulled screen print, printed one colour at a time with water-based inks. 

The edition is limited to a maximum of just 100 prints.

The print is officially approved by the publisher, Britain's top comic publisher, DC Thomson of Dundee.

The paper is beautiful fine art paper, 300 gsm, mould-made, 100% cotton, milled at St Cuthbert's Mill in Somerset. It is acid-free and buffered with calcium carbonate (pH 7–9) for archival longevity. The paper has hand-torn and/or deckled (feathered) edges.

Signed, numbered and dated in pencil by me, the printer, John Patrick Reynolds. 

Format options:
Standard size: 26cm x 19cm
Medium size: 48cm x 38cm
Large size: 76cm x 56cm

© D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd.

 

 

The Victor and Commando! are very successful titles in the DC Thomson stable of boys' adventure comics.  

Commando! first appeared in 1961 and is still being printed. The Commando website (/www.commandocomics.com) describes the comic as Britain’s longest serving war comic. "These stories, with their mixture of excitement, danger and courage under fire, and the dynamic artwork that accompanies them, have won Commando a loyal readership over the decades," it says. 

"On land, at sea, and in the air, Commando’s stories cover every corner of the globe and are set throughout world history, the epic tales of bravery in battle making Commando Comics the Home of Heroes!"

The Victor ran from 1961 to 1992. Each year an annual was also published: The Victor Book for Boys. Its strips included Alf Tupper, The Tough Of The Track; Braddock Of The Bombers; Morgyn The Mighty; Joe Bones, the Human Fly; The Hammer Man; Gerald Cadman, a cowardly British officer; The Goals Of Jimmy Grant.  

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