This blog began in 1997 as a single news page called Nucelus. In 2005, during a long wait to move into a new house, I decided to learn some php and MySQL and write my own blogging system, which became inkyBlog and which now powers this, my own Webbledegook blog.
Thank you to my brother, Murray Ewing, for help with some of the more challenging aspects!
I'm not much a fan of the superhero genre of comics, though I did enjoy them for a short while - somewhere around 1980-1984, and in that time my favourite comic was The New Teen Titans by Marv Wolfman and George Perez - I really loved it (Brother Blood! Trigon! The Brotherhood of Evil! Blackfire!).
Sometime later, in the 90s, I had a slight resurgence of interest and decided (as I then had a pay packet) to brush up my collection, which included going back to the original 1960s incarnation of the Teen Titans, and this is where I became aware of Nick Cardy's work. It was his covers that really astonished me - not only the drawing, but the composition and the design as well. To this day I have several of his covers on my wall, and I quickly added John Coates' book, The Art of Nick Cardy, to my library.
My favourite obscure Nick Cardy fact is that is that he added C3-PO and R2-D2 to Tom Jung's famous 1977 Star Wars film poster - a design later reworked by the brothers Hildebrandt. (Nick did many film posters himself, and there is also a sketchbook available of his war art).
