1980s Pop Star Colouring Book - digital download

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A colouring book for adults and kids of all ages, with 40 top pop stars of the 1980s, all drawn specially by Kev F Sutherland (of Beano and Marvel comics fame) with brand new text about every act. (A hi res paperback version is available on Ama*on)

Duran Duran! Spandau Ballet! Adam Ant! Madonna! Michael Jackson! Aerosmith! Culture Club! Eurythmics! Madness! Wham! Toyah! Bananarama! Human League! Bros!

Name an 80s pop star and they’re in these 40 pages of brand new images for you to colour. Devised and designed by legendary Beano and Marvel creator Kev F Sutherland Revisit the decade of shoulder pads and big big hair with the coloring book that goes this way Yuppy!

More details at kevfcomicartist.com

For some the eighties are remembered as a time when this town was coming like a ghost town. That meant factories closing down, record unemployment, the Miners Strike, the Falklands War, and anti nuclear protests at Greenham Common as we lived under the shadow of the closing years of the Cold War.

For others it was a time of wide-shouldered sharp suits, champagne, endless parties, and the biggest hair the world had ever seen, as we embraced Monetarism and Neo Liberalism; everybody bought shares in the public services from phones, to gas, to trains; house prices sky rocketed; Mrs Thatcher was Prime Minister from start to finish; and a new breed of entrepreneurial, aspirational upwardly-mobile youth was created: The Yuppy.

In Britain we got a new TV channel – our fourth, would you believe – and the screens were filled with opulence, from the historic grandeur of Brideshead Revisited, to the historic silliness of Blackadder. From The Tube to Brookside close, from The Young Ones to Red Dwarf – or, if you’re in the States, from The Cosby Show to… not mentioning The Cosby Show any more – the screens were full of excitement.

And nothing was more exciting than the pop music of the 80s. Because this was the decade when MTV made its debut, and peacock costumes were the order of the day. With all the hairspray we consumed, it’s amazing there was any ozone layer left by the end of ’89. So plentiful and glorious were the pop acts of the 80s, especially those who were part of the MTV British Invasion, that hard choices had to be made when squeezing people into this book.

So apologies to fans of (and indeed members of) Ultravox, The Thompson Twins, UB 40 and The Belle Stars – and between those last two that’s a hell of a lot of members to apologise to. Some acts have found their way in because we’re fans of them, some because there were requests from folks online. We hope you’re happy with the 40 who’ve made the cut.

What colours to use, you ask? Every colour! It’s the eighties! The decade where nothing succeeds like excess.

Happy colouring.

Kev F Comic Artist & Only Pop Fans

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May include: A coloring book cover with the title "1980s Pop Star Coloring Book" in yellow and pink text. The cover features illustrations of pop stars, including Madonna, Michael Jackson, and David Bowie, with a blue background and a pop art style.

A colouring book for adults and kids of all ages, with 40 top pop stars of the 1980s, all drawn specially by Kev F Sutherland (of Beano and Marvel comics fame) with brand new text about every act. (A hi res paperback version is available on Ama*on)

Duran Duran! Spandau Ballet! Adam Ant! Madonna! Michael Jackson! Aerosmith! Culture Club! Eurythmics! Madness! Wham! Toyah! Bananarama! Human League! Bros!

Name an 80s pop star and they’re in these 40 pages of brand new images for you to colour. Devised and designed by legendary Beano and Marvel creator Kev F Sutherland Revisit the decade of shoulder pads and big big hair with the coloring book that goes this way Yuppy!

More details at kevfcomicartist.com

For some the eighties are remembered as a time when this town was coming like a ghost town. That meant factories closing down, record unemployment, the Miners Strike, the Falklands War, and anti nuclear protests at Greenham Common as we lived under the shadow of the closing years of the Cold War.

For others it was a time of wide-shouldered sharp suits, champagne, endless parties, and the biggest hair the world had ever seen, as we embraced Monetarism and Neo Liberalism; everybody bought shares in the public services from phones, to gas, to trains; house prices sky rocketed; Mrs Thatcher was Prime Minister from start to finish; and a new breed of entrepreneurial, aspirational upwardly-mobile youth was created: The Yuppy.

In Britain we got a new TV channel – our fourth, would you believe – and the screens were filled with opulence, from the historic grandeur of Brideshead Revisited, to the historic silliness of Blackadder. From The Tube to Brookside close, from The Young Ones to Red Dwarf – or, if you’re in the States, from The Cosby Show to… not mentioning The Cosby Show any more – the screens were full of excitement.

And nothing was more exciting than the pop music of the 80s. Because this was the decade when MTV made its debut, and peacock costumes were the order of the day. With all the hairspray we consumed, it’s amazing there was any ozone layer left by the end of ’89. So plentiful and glorious were the pop acts of the 80s, especially those who were part of the MTV British Invasion, that hard choices had to be made when squeezing people into this book.

So apologies to fans of (and indeed members of) Ultravox, The Thompson Twins, UB 40 and The Belle Stars – and between those last two that’s a hell of a lot of members to apologise to. Some acts have found their way in because we’re fans of them, some because there were requests from folks online. We hope you’re happy with the 40 who’ve made the cut.

What colours to use, you ask? Every colour! It’s the eighties! The decade where nothing succeeds like excess.

Happy colouring.

Kev F Comic Artist & Only Pop Fans

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