Jack's guestbook

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Name: Adam.
From: Bethnal Green, London.
Website: http://www.adamnostalgia.wordpress.com
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Hello. In 1990, I bought Buster for the first time, and this was when I first came across JEO's work. It was one of those moments really, I became a fan of his style right away, and I'd go as far as to say that he became my favourite comic artist. All these years on, I still have lots of good memories of his strips.
Thanks for preserving a lot of his work from his career on this site, I am very grateful that I can look at it, as I'm sure many other people are too. I'm also very flattered that the site contains a link to the piece I did looking back at his career.
Adam.
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Submitted by
Name: The GlamGuru
From: North Yorkshire
Website: http://www.naffcaff.co.uk
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Back in 1976 as a 13 year old, I submitted a contribution to Jack's "Loneliness Is.." Fresco strip in Record Mirror and was delighted to receive a personal letter from him letting me know that it would be published. I remember the letter included payment of a small plastic warthog -"let that be a lesson to you" he said ! I also remember in the top right hand corner of the letter he had typed "Do Not Nurdle Tadpoles In This Space". Years went by and the letter and copy of "Record Mirror" disappeared. Thanks to your site I managed to track down the edition it appeared in, but more importantly introduced me to all his other great work that I was previously unaware of. Many thanks !
Added: February 23, 2020
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Submitted by
Name: Bev Legge
From: London
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I had the great privilege of working with Jack for two and a half years when I was a young reporter and record reviewer on Disc magazine, many years ago.

He was incredibly creative, a truly wonderful guy with a fantastic sense of humour. He even made a joke about my name in one of his cartoons, which was a great honour for me.

In many ways I felt he was a kindred spirit (though I can't draw to save my life) which is probably why I found him so easy to get on with.

It was always a huge delight for me when he visited the office each week to bring in his latest cartoon strip. Indeed I think all of us who worked on Disc felt like that about him.

I did have brief contact with him after Disc, but my great regret is that our paths then diverged and I lost touch with him.

Really sorry to hear that he is no longer with us. My sincere condolences to all his family. He was a creative genius and a genuinely beautiful soul.
Added: October 29, 2019
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Submitted by
Name: Peter Sanders
From: London
Website: http://www.jedwardoliver.uk
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We have a new url, but the old one will always work. Please report any problems...
:D
Added: October 28, 2019
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Submitted by
Name: Peter Sanders
From: London
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At the time of Jack's death we had a guestbook that many people signed. I know that the comments left were a comfort to Jack's family.
We had a new guestbook, but lack of support and software issues meant that the original and its replacement had to close.
This is a new one with some recent comments added. Please feel free to add more.
Added: May 4, 2019
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Submitted by
Name: Alyn Smith
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Hi... absolutely loving wandering back through JEO's work, have only recently found this site but it's such a pleasure to be re-living my Disc and Record Mirror years, and having been in the FLR fan club... I wonder - has there ever been thoughts of assembling JEOs work into a book? I'm not a publisher but I have a Design & Print shop, and I'm a low-level cartoonist - currently working on Split Knee Loonacy cartoon strips and have enjoyed using cripplingly bad puns in my cartoons The Groaner, in that JEO way. Anyway, if there is any interest in creating a book to celebrate JEOs work, someone contact me, I'd love to get a ball rolling.
Added: May 1, 2019
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Submitted by
Name: Jim Evans
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As News Editor of Record Mirror in the mid-late Seventies, I have fond memories of Jack and his wonderful imagination. I recall commissioning - in 1976 - the Sun/Father Christmas Christmas card (illustrated in your Miscellany section). Thanks Jack.
Added: May 1, 2019
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Submitted by
Name: Norman Boyd
Website: https://frankbellamy.blogspot.co.uk/
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I was following a bit of research and saw my name on your site. I'm so proud to have done my little bit to promote Jack whose work I loved.
Thanks for sharing so much fun!
Norman
Added: May 1, 2019
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Submitted by
Name: John Davis
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Sorry, just noticed a post from Jonathan Coe who wrote the fantastic The Rotter's Club who was also a fan of Jack's. I see I'm in excellent company.
Added: May 1, 2019
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Submitted by
Name: John Davis
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Was just going through old folders of cuttings I made in 1974/75 from Disc magazine and found a bunch of full page strips that I kept that I totally forgot about about. I was cleatly a fan when I was 16/17 years old, and on re-reading them I can see why, am laughing all over again, am loving Mad Microbes again. Wish I'd kept more of Jack's strips. Thank you Jack.
Added: May 1, 2019
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