TALES FROM THE PLAN CHEST

yo!.. my back pages... innit!

I always like to see..

photos of jackson pollock..

painting in his studio..

wouldn't it be nice..

to see more candid shots of his art stuff..

not just some paintings on a wall..

in a museum..

the irish were smart enough to buy..

francis bacon's studio interior and contents..

and now they have recreated his..

painting life in dublin..


so..

anyway..

that's enough of the big nobs..

I got stuff too..


THE BEST LAID PLANS


we will be looking into the contents of these drawers..

at some point..

and you will get an eyefull..

of my plans and ideas..

the stuff of my dreams..

ships that never sailed..

and some that did..

in a fairer world..

all this would be available..

to view in a museum..

but we are where we are..

and it is what it is..

now you are here with me..

at home with the artist..

up close and personal..

what jewels may we find..

in an aladdin's plan chest?

CAP

yo!.. jim steranko... innit!

GROWING UP IN NEW GUINEA COMING OF AGE IN SAMOA

when I was 13..

I was captain america..

although my favourite comic was x-men..

docile was iron man..

bruin was spidey..

dave was thor..

bugsy was..

let me think about it..

we went out of school comic-ing..

at lunch times..

we would tour the junk shops for 2nd hand marvels..

eat out from the 'old man and woman's' fish and chip shop..

spend a whole weeks school dinner money..

on monday alone..

I had x-men 1..

but when we played in the yard at school..

I was always cap.. 

BORNE BACK CEASELESSLY INTO THE PAST

I would like to say that 'it started on yancy street'..

but it was x-men 12 'beware the juggernaught my son'..

after that I was hooked..

every craze ends of course..

and I sold my collection in the school yard..

at a profit of course..

but we were collecting again by 1970

this time it was spidey..

all the steve ditko ones..

only the best..

I was 18..

I was still cap though..

 

I used this steranko cap..

in my 'A' level art exam..

steranko's stuff drove me mad..

I could not get enough of it..

I had all the shield stuff he did..

anyway..

 on foundation at trent poly..

I created this..

I was into these flaps..

which opened up to alter the image..

more interactive art..

more use of chance..

ellsworh kelly is in the mix..

stewart lees liked the flaps but not the pop art..

neville smith was my main mentor..

I got some of the flap influence from him..

COMING UP

more on flaps..

king elvis has surely come..

whatever happened to peter the painter?