The Newspaper Strip Collection of Oscar Charles Drayton

As Oscar Charles Drayton, an obsessive newspaper strip collector, descends into psychotic depression he becomes convinced that the strips in the Daily Inspector are mirroring his life…

Presented as a facsimile of one of Oscar’s scrapbooks from 1975, the comic features established small-press comics in newspaper strip form. Each strip tells its own story whilst contributing to the overall meta-story.

(One of the stories presented in this high concept meta-textual comic – conceived by Space Babe 113 creator John Maybury – is West: The Train Leaves at Noon, which picks up directly from the end of the Stray Bullets story Fort Eyrie and plunges Jerusalem West and Wilton Frohickie into something completely new – the first West newspaper strip! Written by Andrew Cheverton and illustrated by Tim Keable, The Train Leaves at Noon features exactly the same blend of storytelling West fans know and love, but in the time-honoured style of the newspaper strip format.)

Featuring – as well as the Jerusalem West strip – work including Favourite Crayon by Arthur Goodman, Catgirl Crisis Comics by David Goodman, Space Babe 113 by John Maybury (who also scripted the meta-story), and Run Pussy by Colin Stanford; special contributions by Siobhan Hillman and Paul B Rainey round out the package.

The Newspaper Strip Collection of Oscar Charles Drayton is 32 pages of black-and-white story presented within a full colour scrapbook and is available via Paypal for £7.00, P&P extra, in the U.K.