Tales from the Snail and other bits...

I visited the new location of the Silver Snail 

yesterday and chatted with the newish owner, 

George Zotti, about bits and pieces of the Snail's past.

It turns out, that quite a few folk have copies of

"Tales from the Snail", including George.  So if you want a 

copy or two, go down and ask him for them.

George also showed me a couple of pieces of art, that came to light when they moved out of the Queen Street store, which now have pride of place upon the shop & cafe's walls.

One is the original pencilled version of the 1986/10th Anniversary 

poster, by Ken Steacy and the other, even more impressive to me, is the original art for the first Silver Snail Poster/Change of Address postcard, by Paul Rivoche.

They look lovely, framed and matted, pieces of history, now safely under glass.

For anyone unfamiliar with the posters put out by the Silver Snail, 

this is the artwork, by Paul Rivoche, that I am referring too. 

Here is the cover to the second issue of Tales from the Snail, 

perhaps it is no surprise that it is also by Paul Rivoche.

Paul also designed the character and painted the "teaser" 

posters that Vortex put out in advance of the comic book it self.

One of these days, I will photograph the three posters in the set (at least, I believe there were only three) and post them here too.