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British TV Documentaries About Comic Books Twenty Years Ago

Published Thu, 24 Mar 2011 08:10:23 -0500

Let's take a quick trip through recent comic history through the power of old British TV shows about comics. See the change in comics culture, attitudes, trust in the future and, well, clothes and hairstyles.

Here's a Channel 4 documentary from 1989 looking at Watchmen, DKR, Crisis, etc. and takes its theme as "The Day Comics Grew Up" with lots of bold predictions about the fact comics will become as respected a medium as novels. Lots of footage of Alan Moore, John Byrne, Archie Goodwin, and Jim Baikie. It's presented by Morwenna Banks (Absolutely).

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9yt_OgoNKo[/youtube]

From 1990 Yorkshire TV a look at American comics from 1975-1985 with Chris Claremont, John Byrne, Howard Chaykin and Alan Moore

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZs8L-gYqEs[/youtube]

And one on European comics of the same era

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_4t-UuNM2g[/youtube]

And from 1993 another old Brtish TV documentary, looking at the comics speculator market before the bubble burst. And a strange weird news item from 2093 on comic book riots:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_seOXYhY1A[/youtube]

And the guy is being awfully creepy with that statue at the end.

And also from 1993, Dave Gibbons on Roy Lichtenstein;

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5P55iHpJ9Is[/youtube]

Doesn't everyone look so young?

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