Ian's art folder - Status as at 27th Sep 2020

 In a normal year, Ian would be making his way around the country to various conventions - Enniskillen, Thought Bubble, Commando Swap meets and so on. At his appearance at shows he would bring along his legendary art folders, full of sketches and original art that he'd been working away on over the year in readiness for convention season.. Unfortunately as we all know 2020 has not been  a normal year, and so his art folder has not been seen by the public in nearly a year!

So we thought why not share what is in the folder here!

If any are of interest let us know at iankennedyart@gmail.com and we can confirm exact pricing.

Typical pricing:

A4 B&W plus colour splash £180 

A4 full colour £220. Two heads £300.

Additional £10 for P&P to UK for A4.

Dan Dare

Dredd

Rogue Trooper

Strontium Dog - Johnny Alpha

B/W Aircraft available:

A4's :  Wellington, Lancaster, Heinkel 111, Spitfire, Hurricane, P.51 - Mustang, Whirlwind, Sunderland.

Typical pricing for A4 i B&W charcoal pieces with no background is £160

Larger "widescreen" format:   Mosquito, BAC Lightning F.6, Bae Buccaneer, Eurofighter Typhoon, Tornado F.3, Phantom F.3, Sukhoi Su-27 "Flanker" (2), Mig-29 "Fulcrum" (2)

Typical pricing for A3 B& W charcoal pieces with no background is £220 - but will confirm price with actual size.

If any of the aircraft pieces (or any of the above) are of interest let us know at iankennedyart@gmail.com and we can share scans of images and exact dimensions. 

Air Ace Picture Library

Thanks to Peter Hill over at the Ian Kennedy Facebook group for assembling this list and Colin Noble's input.

Fleetway's Air Ace Picture Library featured interior art drawn by Ian Kennedy in many issues. The below is a list of many of the issues that feature Ian's art. I've managed to collect most of them. 

Publisher: IPC
Publication Dates: January 18th 1960 – November 16, 1970
Number of Issues Published: 545 (#1 – #545)
Color: Colour cover;
Black and white interior Dimensions:
Digest-size Paper Stock: Glossy Covers;
Newsprint Interiors Binding: Squarebound
Publishing Format: Was ongoing

Merged with War Picture Library on December 21, 1970.

Air Ace Picture Library was published by Fleetway Publications in the UK and is the classic air war story pocket library comic. The 64 page black and white Air Ace Picture Library were published between January 1960 until November 1970 (545 issues) when it was merged into War Picture Library #632.

Cover gallery of the issues;

http://www.coverbrowser.com/covers/air-ace-picture-library

More details of the series

https://britishcomics.wordpress.com/2015/03/24/air-ace-picture-library/

Apologies if any group members have already published this list below:

Air Ace issues:

#10 Objective Destroyed

#18 Torpedo Alley

#32 Birds of Prey

#39 Fighter Fighter!

#53 Day of Reckoning

#65 Steel Bats

#80 Night Havoc

#95 Death Takes Wing

#104 The Searchers

#130 Boomerang

#134 Winner Takes All

#144 Ship Buster.

#158 Wolf Patrol

#182 Never Say Die Wapati

#197 Duel in the Desert

#209 Winged Commando

#226 Lightning Strikes

#235 Bomber's Vengeance

#250 Rocket Bomb Revenge.

#273 Radar Raider

#279 Hunters of the V1

#283 Whirlwind Over Russia

#294 Flying Gun (Battler Britton)

#311 Spider's Web (Battler Britton)

#326 War in the Air

#334 Scratch Crew.

#339 Spy in the Sky (Battler Britton)

#358 Go it Alone

#381 Ace in the Hole (Battler Britton.)

#390 Crash Alert.

#402 Village of Destiny

War Picture Library Issue:

#417 Stop for Nothing.

Some of the above stories were also featured in the Air Ace & Battler Britton Holiday Specials- here is a list:

Air Ace Holiday Special 1970- included 'Winged Commando.

Air Ace Holiday Special 1971- 'Rocket Bomb' (originally published as 'Rocket Bomb Revenge'

Air Ace Holiday Special 1972- 'Radar Raider'

Air Ace Holiday Special 1973- 'Hunters of the V1'

Air Ace Holiday Special 1974- 'Whirlwind over Russia'

Air Ace Holiday Special 1975- 'Scratch Crew'

Air Ace Holiday Special 1977- 'Bomber's Vengeance'

Battler Britton Holiday Special 1978- 'The Spider's Web' & 'Flying Gun'

Air Ace Holiday Special 1984- 'The War in the Air'.

There are also five War Picture Library annuals that ran from 1976 to 1980 inclusive as at least one of Ian's contributions would be reprinted in them.

In addition, the 2009 Prion Books Air Ace Omnibus 'Aces High' featured two of the Kennedy-drawn issues- 'Fighter Fighter!' & 'Steel Bats'. And the follow-up smaller Air Ace omnibus 'Wings of Death' also featured a Kennedy-drawn story, 'Torpedo Alley'. 

And finally, the recent Rebellion tribute to Kennedy's artwork for Picture Library' 'Ian Kennedy: Battle of Britain' features large-format reprints of the stories 'Steel Bats' and 'Never Say Die'.

Commando Swapmeet 14th March in Glasgow

Ian will be at the Commando Swapmeet 14th March in Glasgow along with Calum Laird and Colin McNeil

Portfolio; Dredd, Strontium Dog, Rogue Trooper

Ian normally brings along a few pieces of pre-prepared art in his portfolio to Conventions for general sale, as well as especially requested commissions. . Here is a selection of the pieces that he had in his portfolio at Thought Bubble: A mixture of black & white and colour, head, torso and full figure, generally A4 on thick card. Some of these are still available; get in touch via iankennedyart@gmail.com if you're interested in picking up any of these via post.

Rogue Trooper

Strontium Dog (Johnny Alpha)

Judge Dredd

This one (with the blue background) was over-sized; closer to A3 size;

Hello Spaceboy!

This was a character Ian had never drawn beofore and was a commission done to bring to Thought Bubble Nov 2019. Request was for a colour A3 interpretation of Spaceboy from Umbrella Academy (created and written by Gerard Way and illustrated by Gabriel Bá).