Don’t Rush Me! / Too Great A Risk
Contributed by Mathieu Triay on Sep 25th, 2017. Artwork published in
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From King in Exile:
Gillian Crampton Smith and Sarah Curtis […] worked closely with the London borough of Wandsworth to create these comics promoting contraception and safe sex to London teens in the style of stories from popular teen magazine Jackie. They promoted the use of contraception and family planning clinics, explaining how to use both condoms and the pill. They also highlighted the stigma surrounding teen pregnancy at the time and aimed to warn teenagers against being pressured into sex.
Too Great A Risk! drawn by Ian Gibson (source)
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Panels from both these pamphlets are used in a collage by Poly Styrene (X-Ray Spex), that is currently on show in the Women in Revolt exhibition at Tate Britain.
The art from “Don’t Rush Me” is by Ian Gibson who worked extensively for 2000 AD (most famously on The Ballad of Halo Jones). The art from “Too Great A Risk” is by Jesus Redondo, who, before he began drawing MACH1 for 2000AD, had spent over a decade drawing for girls’ comics in the UK, mostly for D. C. Thomson in the pages of Diana, Spellbound and others.
Interestingly, there are clearly two versions of “Too Great A Risk” as in the “I’m more than a week overdue” panel used in the collage, the female protagonist is wearing a shirt not trousers.