John Patrick Reynolds May 21, 2026 – Posted in: Artists

Now I’m a screen printer. I discovered about 15 years ago that comics were a perfect fit for screenprinting. The medium is good at producing flat vivid colour and bold outline – just right for the stylised nature of comics.

Soon after that I was lucky enough to be the first screenprinter to gain permission from Britain’s top comic producer, DC Thomson, to use its fabulous archives of images in my screenprints. So I am the first to produce screenprints of such icons as Dennis the Menace, Minnie the Minx and my old favourite from The Rover, Alf Tupper ‘The Tough of the Track’ – and I’m proud of that.

All the images – or versions of them – started life in comics. I present panels or details of panels to be appreciated in their own right, independently of the stories they were created for.

The paper I use is cotton, mould made paper milled in Somerset – I use soft paper which soaks up the ink. I t also reminds me a bit of the old newsprint that British comics used to be printed on