Contact

Call me, John Patrick Reynolds, on 07980 844906 with your queries and commissions.

Harrods: There's a roving exhibiton of Comic Art prints. It is currently in the basement. Ask staff at the Wrapology counter for details or to buy prints.
Harrods, 87–135 Brompton Road, Knightsbridge, London, SW1X 7XL

Animation Art Gallery: c/o The Movieum of London, 1st Floor, County Hall, London SE1 7PB
020 7633 0071 http://www.theanimationartgallery.com.

The Cartoon Museum: 35 Little Russell Street, London WC1A 2HH. Telephone 020 7580 8155. www.cartoonmuseum.org

Kent: Fairfax Gallery in the Pantiles, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, http://www.fairfaxgallery.com. Speak to Andrew Fairfax on 01892 525 525

Berkshire: The Modern Artists Gallery, High Street, Whitchurch on Thames, Nr. Pangbourne, Berkshire. RG8 7EX. http://www.modernartistsgallery.com/contact.php. Speak to Peggy Brodie on 01189 845893

Scotland: There is a long-standing exhibition of Comic Art prints at the Apex Hotel. All are for sale. Apex Hotel, 1 West Victoria Dock Road, Dundee, DD1 3JP
08453 650000, www.apexhotels.co.uk

Wrapology at Harrods

Menacing in the top people's store

My screenprints of Dennis the Menace are on show and for sale in Harrods for a four month period until July 2.

Some fifteen prints of Dennis, Gnasher, Minnie the Minx, the Bash Street Kids, and Desperate Dan are on show in the Knightsbridge department store.

The show – in conjunction with upmarket wrapping service Wrapology, which has started selling Beano wrapping paper – is travelling around the store. It started on the second floor, has had a stint in the technology section and is currently in the kids' section on the fourth floor. It was originally slated for a month, but has been extended by popular demand.

For further details, please ask at the Wrapology desk on the second floor of Harrods by the Egyptian staircase.

Apex hotel

Exhibition at Sherborne House

One of my screenprints of Dennis the Menace has been selected to hang in an exhibition alongside some of the greatest portraits of modern times.

The image will hang alongside work by artists including Henri Matisse, Lucian Freud, Elisabeth Frink, Joshua Reynolds, Augustus John, Eric Gill, Julian Opie, Vanessa Bell and Jean Cocteau.

The screenprint from an original drawing by David Sutherland, will be on show at an exhibition called Face to Face at Sherborne House in Dorset from 16 September to 15 October.

It describes itself as: "An eclectic look at portraiture over the past 250 years enbracing a wide range of media including oils, atercolours, engravings, woodcuts, sculptures and photographs.

Admission is free to the show at Sherborne House, Newland, Sherbornem Dorset. Call 01935 816734 for details.

Apex hotel

Comic Art comes to Scotland - Dundee Festival, Sat 15th & Sun 16th July

I'm mounting a huge exhibition of my latest screenprints at the Dundee Festival. Apex Hotels, on the Quay in Dundee, is hosting the show, of about 50 prints on canvas and cotton paper.

There will be prints showing how Dennis the Menace has developed over the 55 years since he first appeared in collar and tie back in 1951. Included are my latest prints, of Beano front pages dating from the 1960s (Biffo) and 1970s (Dennis the Menace), which I have screenprinted with the original colour separations.

Publisher D.C.Thomson & Co. Ltd., kindly lent me the original negatives for each colour that were used to print the comics themselves. My versions use pigment-rich inks and are nine times the size of the originals at 100cms high by 70cms wide.

Also on show are two multiple panel works: one featuring Dennis the Menace and another with Alf Tupper, the Tough of the Track, from the Victor.

For Dennis the Menace, I've chosen five consecutive panels from a front page in 1975 and printed them as individual pictures. I've also chosen to use just black and red in each picture.

For Alf, I've picked images from the Tough of the Track story in the Victor Book for Boys 1967, and I have followed the original colour scheme and printed in spot yellow. Plus, there are images of Biffo the Bear, Minnie the Minx, Desperate Dan and The Bash Street Kids.

Visit the hotel and you can pick up a special Dundee Festival print for just £25. Or you could enter a prize draw and maybe win a print worth £135.

Saturday 15th and Sunday 16th July
Venue: Apex City Quay Hotel
Time: 10.00am – 4.00pm
Contact: Tel: 01382 202404
http://www.dundeefestival.co.uk/exhibit.htm

Central London: Cartoon Museum, for British Comic Art: 35 Little Russell Street, Bloomsbury, WC1A 2HH, just south of the British Museum, opened late February 2006. http://www.cartooncentre.com . Speak to curator Anita O'Brien

The just-launched Cartoon Museum is displaying my prints of comic characters at its new location in Bloomsbury.

The Duke of Edinburgh opened the new premises on Wednesday, February 22, and came face to face with a large print of Dennis, hanging in the front window.

The image was then used by the Metro paper for its caption competion.

Curator Anita O'Brien has chosen screenprints of Dennis the Menace, Gnasher and the Bash Street Kids (courtesy DC Thomson & Co Ltd) to display on the walls of the museum. Other prints, on paper, have been selected to be sold at the museum's shop.

The Cartoon Museum, has two floors displaying some of the great names of British comic and cartoon art from early 19th century charicaturist James Gillray, to the Express's Giles, the Guardian's Steve Bell and Private Eye's Tony Husband.

Its address is 35 Little Russell Street, just south of the British Museum, next door to the original Pizza Express. It was previously in the Brunswick Centre, a little further east. Its website is http://www.cartooncentre.com/index.html.

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