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#NOISE12: Remembering Rob Gretton

Of mods in brogues, a Union Jack cape, the Kippax and the kibbutz .. of Benchill, Baguley and the wild dogs of Wythenshawe..

Jan 15, 2025 • Steve McGarry

#1: Gentlemen, we shail into hishtory ...

Scotland's greatest export

Oct 9, 2024 • Steve McGarry

Trivquiz: A Relic Hunter and a Rolling Stone ... Tia Carrere and Ronnie Wood.

How's your pop culture IQ when it comes to thespian pop stars and celebrity spouses?

Jan 2 • Steve McGarry

Trivquiz: Uncle Martin and "The Hillbilly Shakespeare" ... Ray Walston and Hank Williams.

Steve McGarry Comics is a reader-supported publication.

Jan 1 • Steve McGarry

Trivquiz: The Teen Idol and The Man Who Would be Hitler and Quasimodo ... Ricky Nelson and Sir Anthony Hopkins.

How are you on Ricky Nelson's career and naming Welsh thespians?

Dec 31, 2025 • Steve McGarry

Most Popular

#2: Tony Husband - A very fond remembrance

Oct 16, 2024 • Steve McGarry

#NOISE004: The Duran Duran Story in Look-In magazine.

Nov 4, 2024 • Steve McGarry

#PFAD4: I'm living a lie in Viz ... the world's funniest and filthiest comic!

Nov 8, 2024 • Steve McGarry

Dec 26, 2024 • Steve McGarry

Odds & Sods

#11: Jules Feiffer stories? I've got a couple for you ...

Party Pooping with a Pulitzer Prize Pick!

Jan 24, 2025 • Steve McGarry

I was three years old when Humphrey Bogart died ... but he still became one of my favorite actors of all time!

Dec 26, 2024 • Steve McGarry

#9: Jaa ne, Tokyo!

Back from Tokyo Comic Con ... where they still love Minions!

Dec 18, 2024 • Steve McGarry

#8: Business in the front, party in the back! The "Mullets" story - Part One!

They say write about what you know ... so two idiots came up with a comic strip about two idiots.

Nov 28, 2024 • Steve McGarry

#7: Why I owe my entire career to Doctor Who and Frank Bellamy.

On annual Doctor Who day, I explain why my entire career was shaped by The Doctor and the artist Frank Bellamy.

Nov 23, 2024 • Steve McGarry

#6: Look closely ... there may be a familiar face lurking somewhere in that comic.

Maybe they're cameos, maybe they're camouflaged ... but I've been known to occasionally slip someone or something dear to me into my comics!

Nov 13, 2024 • Steve McGarry

#5: Wonder Woman as a Goddess ... and ... erm ... as a dog, a cat and a rabbit.

I've drawn Wonder Woman quite a few times ... and I really do go from one extreme to another.

Nov 6, 2024 • Steve McGarry

#4: Spooky stuff ... and scary stuff!

Halloween this week: spooky! Elections next week: scary! Beware! There be monsters!

Oct 30, 2024 • Steve McGarry

Art of The Noise

#NOISE15: Benchill Boys ... remembering Paul Young.

On what have been Paul Young's 78th birthday, a few thoughts about a Benchill boy who made good, then came unstuck ... and bounced back bigger than…

Jun 17, 2025 • Steve McGarry

NOISE#14: The Death of a Nosebleed

Thoughts and recollections sparked by the death of Edweena Banger

Feb 1, 2025 • Steve McGarry

#NOISE13: Who the #@£! is Robbie Williams?

Robbie Williams is a global superstar … assuming you don’t include North America. The bananas biopic "Better Man," in which he is replaced by an…

Jan 20, 2025 • Steve McGarry

#NOISE12: Remembering Rob Gretton

Of mods in brogues, a Union Jack cape, the Kippax and the kibbutz .. of Benchill, Baguley and the wild dogs of Wythenshawe..

Jan 15, 2025 • Steve McGarry

#NOISE011: Rod the Mod! The Rod Stewart Story!

Sir Roderick David Stewart is 80 years old!

Jan 10, 2025 • Steve McGarry

#NOISE10: The DAVID BOWIE Story

Ch-ch-ch-changes ....

Jan 8, 2025 • Steve McGarry

#NOISE009: The Elvis Presley Story

On what would have been Elvis Presley's 90th birthday, a look back at the stellar career of "The King."

Jan 8, 2025 • Steve McGarry

#NOISE008: The Story of Daft Punk

On Thomas Bangalter's 50th birthday, a look at the history of Daft Punk, the chart-topping duo he formed with Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo.

Jan 3, 2025 • Steve McGarry

Trivquiz Music, Movies & TV

Trivquiz: A Relic Hunter and a Rolling Stone ... Tia Carrere and Ronnie Wood.

How's your pop culture IQ when it comes to thespian pop stars and celebrity spouses?

Jan 2 • Steve McGarry

Trivquiz: Uncle Martin and "The Hillbilly Shakespeare" ... Ray Walston and Hank Williams.

Steve McGarry Comics is a reader-supported publication.

Jan 1 • Steve McGarry

Trivquiz: The Teen Idol and The Man Who Would be Hitler and Quasimodo ... Ricky Nelson and Sir Anthony Hopkins.

How are you on Ricky Nelson's career and naming Welsh thespians?

Dec 31, 2025 • Steve McGarry

Trivquiz: One lumberjack, two musos, a kid star and a jockey ... Fred Ward and The Monkees.

Steve McGarry Comics is a reader-supported publication.

Dec 30, 2025 • Steve McGarry

Trivquiz: Blofeld and Nights in White Satin ... Thunderball and The Moody Blues.

How's your knowledge of Bond movie villains and musical Blues?

Dec 29, 2025 • Steve McGarry

Trivquiz: Alien Master and Mister Broad ... Sir Ridley Scott and Billy Idol.

Test your knowledge of Ridley Scott movies and Billy Idol hits.

Nov 30, 2025 • Steve McGarry

Trivquiz: Nelson Wilbury and Archie Leach ... aka George Harrison and Cary Grant.

How are you on George Harrison trivia and movie greats who passed away in 1986?

Nov 29, 2025 • Steve McGarry

Trivquiz: The Motown Mogul and The Grindhouse Girl ... Berry Gordy, Jr. and Mary Elizabeth Winstead.

How are you on Winstead movies and Motown groups?

Nov 28, 2025 • Steve McGarry

Trivquiz Football

Soccer Monday! A week of Trivquiz Football comics!

Test your knowledge of Cristiano Ronaldo, Fernando Torres, Ajax, Ronaldinho, John Toshack, Fernando Ruiz Hierro and Christophe Dugarry.

Mar 24, 2025 • Steve McGarry

Soccer Monday! A week of Trivquiz Football comics!

Featuring Didier Drogba, Italy's Vittorio Pozzo, Edgar Davids, Mark Fish and South Africa, Liverpool FC, Theo Walcott and England and Mia Hamm!

Mar 17, 2025 • Steve McGarry

Soccer Monday! A week of Trivquiz Football Comics!

Featuring Ariel Ortega, Harry Maguire, Real Madrid, Jordan Pickford, England goalkeepers, John Harkes, USMNT, Clint Dempsey and Samuel Eto'o.

Mar 10, 2025 • Steve McGarry

Soccer Monday: A week of Trivquiz Football Comics!

Test your knowledge of Park Ji-Sung, Emmanuel Adebayor, Bayern Munich, Dino Zoff, Italy, The World Cup, Kevin Kurányi, Dragon Stojkovič, Nagoya Grampus…

Mar 3, 2025 • Steve McGarry

Soccer Monday: A week of Trivquiz Football comics ...

Test your knowledge of Gary Neville, Marta, Jimmy Greaves, Georgios Samaras, Brian Laudrup, Gareth Barry and superstars who have played for teams in…

Feb 24, 2025 • Steve McGarry

Soccer Monday: A week of Trivquiz Football Comics ...

Test your knowledge of Michael Owen, England, Julius Agahowa, Wigan Athletic, Rafael Márquez, Edison Cavani, Luis Hernández, Bebeto, Omar Sivori and…

Feb 17, 2025 • Steve McGarry

Soccer Monday: A week of Trivquiz Football Comics ...

Test your knowledge of Cristiano Ronaldo, Len Shackleton, Stanley Matthews, George Best, Hristo Stoichkov, Angelos Charisteas and Radamel Falcao!

Feb 11, 2025 • Steve McGarry

Soccer Monday! A week of Trivquiz Football comics ...

Test your knowledge of Gianluigi Buffon, Romário, Dimitar Berbatov, Liverpool, Gabriel Batistuta, Gerard Piqué and players who died in 1994.

Feb 4, 2025 • Steve McGarry

Playing For a Draw

#PFAD7: Cristiano Ronaldo - A wealth of comics featuring soccer's first billionaire!

Cristiano Ronaldo, who recently turned 40, is the first footballing billionaire. I've featured him in lots of comics over the years, not only…

Feb 21, 2025 • Steve McGarry

#PFAD6: Fergie! To laud or lampoon? Or why not both!

Longtime Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson just turned 83 years old. In my work over the years, my approach to him veered back and forth…

Dec 31, 2024 • Steve McGarry

#PFAD5: The most famous footballer on Earth.

Perhaps the most successful sports figure of the 20th century, Pelé passed away on December 29th, 2022.

Dec 29, 2024 • Steve McGarry

#PFAD4: I'm living a lie in Viz ... the world's funniest and filthiest comic!

I'm an occasional contributor to Britain's funniest comic, the wonderful Viz. But I travel incognito, gliding cat-like though the shadows, a man of…

Nov 8, 2024 • Steve McGarry

#PFAD3: Rooneytoons!

The lighter side of drawing former Manchester United and England heavyweight Wayne Rooney.

Oct 25, 2024 • Steve McGarry

The Wayne Rooney Story

Wayne Rooney was born on October 24, 1985. Here's his life story in comics form from back in 2021.

Oct 24, 2024 • Steve McGarry

#PFAD2: Ray of The Rangers

What started life as a one-off spoof of a legendary U.K. footballing comic character, went on to run for five years in every issue of one of Britain's…

Oct 18, 2024 • Steve McGarry

#PFAD1: The time I tried to tickle Bobby Charlton

What can I tell you? I'd had a drink.

Oct 11, 2024 • Steve McGarry

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