Pibolar Disorder

By Mel Croucher and Robin Evans

This is the complete collection of all the artwork dreamed up by Mel Croucher and Robin Evans for the legendary games company Automata and their cult cartoon mascot The PiMan. It spans forty years of video games, book illustrations, fanzines, rock albums, and magazine artwork. Pibolar Disorder includes the entire archive of the weekly Back Page cartoon strips published throughout the golden years of UK video gaming, it is a genuine slice of home computer history, and is absolutely unique.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Acorn Books
• Release date: Feb 28, 2018
• ISBN: 9781785388316

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Insπred

the collected artwork of

Mel Croucher

and

Robin Evans

Volume 2

Pibolar Disorder

Published in 2017 by

Acorn Books

www.acornbooks.co.uk

an imprint of

Andrews UK Limited

www.andrewsuk.com

Copyright © 1988–2017 Mel Croucher & Robin Evans

The right of Mel Croucher & Robin Evans to be identified as authors of this work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1998.

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means without the prior written permission of the publisher, nor be otherwise circulated in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser. Any person who does so may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages.

Any views and opinions expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of Acorn Books or Andrews UK Limited.

Introduction

This is Volume Two of a three volume special edition. It contains the creations of Mel Croucher and Robin Evans produced for a bit of a company called Automata and a bit of a cult called The PiMan.

Automata was founded in 1977, the first video games company in the UK, and the Automata Golden Years lasted until sometime in 1985. The PiMan was the company’s mascot, and appeared in some best-seller video games. Which is bizarre, seeing as nobody in Automata knew anything about video games. Including the bloke