The LOOK-IN PICTURE STRIP ARCHIVE

Shaqui · Joined: 09 Nov 2005 Posts: 158

...and again, for what reasons?

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porkulator · Joined: 19 Dec 2005 Posts: 155 Location: Liverpool, England

Look-in change of format in 1981, was the beginning of the end for me, the loss of the painted covers was a huge blow, and there was a lot of american trash coming on to UK tv, and the heyday of british TV had gone, I stuck with it till late 1982, I don't know exactly what was the last issue I bought, but I knew that Look-in had become a shadow of it's former self.

Shaqui · Joined: 09 Nov 2005 Posts: 158

It must have been while I was at college - my foundation course in 1983-84. I wrote to Colin Shelbourn as I did my thesis on how comics are made, and he mentioned during the correspondence that the title was aimed at a lower readership. While I still loved the title, I guess I felt I was a little old for it. I still liked the strips but they were not the same as the 'classic' 70s era. Actually, I might have junked it for the short-lived 'Beeb'...

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vanullis · Joined: 24 Oct 2005 Posts: 12

I too lasped from buying it for many years as I grew up, boy do I regret that choice now. But after a while I happened to go to a comic show, and saw some old issues and had a flicked through one and saw that Mike Noble was drawing Robin Hood and once again I became hooked again, and so a re-brith was born.
Wonderful times.

Cheers, Peter aka vanullis

CapBritain · Posted: Mon May 15, 2006 11:31 pm Post subject:

I probably stopped buying Look-In for very similar reasons to John and probably about the same time too. I can't be exactly sure though at what point I stopped but I remember I found the strips were based on shows I really didn't like so there wasn't really anything in it to keep me reading. british comics were coming into there own too (2000AD, Warrior, some Marvel UK) and I couldn't buy everything I wanted.

steviekwala · Joined: 19 Dec 2005 Posts: 16 Location: Manchester

I stopped around 1981. I couldn't stand that dreadful toilet paper they started printing it on, after the glossiness of the 70's issues. And don't even get me started on the new style photographic covers!!! Evil or Very Mad

And the BIONIC adventures were over - no more Jaime and Steve Crying or Very sad

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RUSST · Joined: 22 Jun 2006 Posts: 2 Location: Cardiff, South Wales

The photographic covers killed it for me - and the new-feel horrible paper.

It lost its quaintness... or something, not sure what.

I stopped mid-80s when it was absolutely dreadful - A-Team covers every month etc.....

CapBritain · Posted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 6:06 pm Post subject:

As much as I loved the eighties, I would have to say I didn't really have much interest in the picture strips of the TV shows I actually liked, strange as that may seem. I quite liked The A-Team but didn't find the picture strip very interesting; I liked Street Hawk but, again, not the strip itself (though the art wasn't exactly up to classic Look-in standards, to be honest). And yes, the photo covers seemed alot less interesting too. By the way, anyone know who drew Street Hawk, out of interest...?

CapBritain · Posted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 6:07 pm Post subject:

As much as I loved the eighties, I would have to say I didn't really have much interest in the picture strips of the TV shows I actually liked, strange as that may seem. I quite liked The A-Team but didn't find the picture strip very interesting; I liked Street Hawk but, again, not the strip itself (though the art wasn't exactly up to classic Look-in standards, to be honest). And yes, the photo covers seemed alot less interesting too. By the way, anyone know who drew Street Hawk, out of interest...?

Shaqui · Joined: 09 Nov 2005 Posts: 158

CapBritain · Posted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 8:33 pm Post subject:

There's a Street Hawk strip in one of the latest issues to be found HERE... But it looks like the same guy who drew Knight Rider to me so I would tend to think it's Barrie Mitchell, as you say, Shaqui.

porkulator · Joined: 19 Dec 2005 Posts: 155 Location: Liverpool, England

The TV in the 80's became more and more American, and this obviously reflected in Look-in. The British series in the seventies had much more fliar and style, and also never ran as long, so left you with a feeling of wanting more, rather than chuning out season after season, and the series getting stale. The one saviour amongst all this was 'Robin Of Sherwood'.

CapBritain · Posted: Sat Jun 24, 2006 7:18 pm Post subject:

And that's always been the problem with British TV series for years -- they never make enough episodes or get cancelled before their time! Robin Of Sherwoord was a truly great show, even without Michael Praed. It should've gone on longer, at least for another couple of series, I think. I'm not so bothered with a puny six-episode series as long as they continue to make a show for more than a couple of years.

Neil · Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2007 9:23 am Post subject:

As usual, these things are age-related. I got the comic from the first issue and every week for several years. Then I think I got what my father called "too big".

We moved house when I'd just turned 13 and within weeks my parents had cancelled 'Look-In' and gave me 'Tit-Bits' to read. This was unconvincing as a magazine, though my mother read it too, mostly when we were on holiday.

Later I got 'NME' until the domination of Punk Rock. I hated Punk Rock, so stopped getting a regular mag after that, though I've dallied with Interzone, Omni and Viz, the latter because the boys who worked for me got it and it seemed 'tongue-in-cheek' - or 'satyrical in a post-modernist way'.

The era of classic TV was over anyway. I bought the whole collection of 'UFO' dvds' a few years ago. Still brill, still my fave TV show ever.