Now a prominent graphic designer, Rian Hughes was one of the leading lights of British comics in the Eighties. The handsomely-designed Yesterday's Tomorrows collects his pioneering comics for the first time.
With an engaging retro style, Hughes's versatile art - mixing duo-tone palettes and muted watercolours - handles diverse genres like sci-fi (Science Service) and noir (Chandler's Goldfish) with equal ease and superb atmospheric effect.
This collection's undoubted jewel, though, is Dare, Hughes' criminally-underseen collaboration with Grant Morrison. Arguably the best UK comic of the last 20 years, it saw a bleak and highly politicised re-imagining of classic Eagle character Dan Dare. 
Danny Graydon
Yesterday's Tomorrows is published by Knockabout Comics, £25
FIRST POSTED JUNE 29, 2007
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