Sez Dez: Book One (Signed)

Dez Skinn is a writer, editor and publisher of comics and comic related material, and magazines, with more than 50 years standing in a strange business. During his illustrious career, that continues today, he ran Marvel UK, gave us Doctor Who Weekly (still published today, as Doctor Who Magazine), and created and published titles such as Warrior magazine, House of Hammer, and more.

Encompassing his early life as a failed chemist but successful fanzine publisher, local newspaper staffer, and comics editor at IPC, literally blagging his way into the job, this is a fascinating autobiographical account of a now much changed British publishing industry.

Dez reveals how he broke into the business, publishing fanzines by night and working at IPC by day, and shares many entertaining stories that the latter entailed.

Offering an enjoyable read of the very different publishing world of the 1970s, Sez Dez Book One not only gives us Skinn's personal account of his early career, warts and all, but a snapshot of how things used to be, back when individual weekly comics used to sell over 250,000 copies a week, and would be cancelled or merged if they fell below 200,000. Sales figures that enabled a comic to have four dedicated full time staff working on them, too, a far cry from today.

Along the way, you'll also find out more about comics legends such as Leo Baxendale, Ken Reid, Frank Bellamy, Steve Parkhouse and others, and how they worked, and Dez offers some useful advice for those of you still wanting to work in publishing, too.

This copy is signed by Dez Skinn!!

Author: Dez Skinn
Publisher: Quality, 2022 First Edition (Out of Print)
Number of pages: 92
Format: Soft Cover
Size: 8" x 12" (210mm x 300mm)
ISBN: 9781790941864
Condition: F - Fine
Code: SEZDEZ101