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Dark They Were, and Golden Eyed was a science fiction bookshop and comic book retailer in London during the 1970s; the largest of its kind in Europe. Specialising in science fiction, occultism, and Atlantis, the central-London shop also played a key role in bringing American underground comics to the United Kingdom. It also sold American editions of mainstream science fiction books that were not easily obtained anywhere else. The shop was named after a short story by Ray Bradbury. ==History== The shop was started by Derek "Bram'" Stokes, who previously ran the ''Gothique'' fanzine but had left to start a science fiction mail order book service.〔(Here Be Dragons ) 〕 Diane Lister (later Diane Stokes) joined Stokes in 1969. The shop was managed by fantasy author Stan Nicholls, who had worked with Stokes on ''Gothique''.〔(The Write Fantastic ) 〕 The shop was originally located in Bedfordbury before moving to 10 Berwick Street in Soho. Nick Landau, later to be founder of Forbidden Planet and Titan Entertainment Group, was also a customer, and produced a fanzine on the shop's hand-cranked duplicator. Stokes and Landau were important forces behind the annual British Comic Art Convention, which ran, mostly in London, from 1968–1981. Stokes was the main organizer of the 1969 and 1971 editions of the so-called "UK Comicon."〔Skinn, Dez. ("Early days of UK comics conventions and marts," ) DezSkinn.com. Accessed Mar. 3, 2013.〕 The shop was also the semi-official correspondence address for the magazine ''Fortean Times'' from 1978-1981, and the magazine's team met every Tuesday afternoon in a room above the shop.〔Rickard, Bob; Sieveking, Paul (ed.), et al. (June 1992) (Preface). ''Yesterday's News Tomorrow: Fortean Times'' Issues 1–15 (Fortean Tomes, 2nd edition, 1995 ed.). John Brown Publishing. ISBN 1-870870-26-3.〕 (The shop was advertised in #28 of ''Fortean Times''; the advert was drawn by Bryan Talbot who went on to draw for ''2000 AD''.) Comics artist Brian Bolland drew some of the earliest pieces of advertising artwork for Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed, which ran in various fanzines, convention programmes, and magazines such as ''Time Out'', and were commissioned by future-Titan Distribution and Forbidden Planet co-founder Mike Lake, who was "working there at the time" c. 1978.〔Bolland, Brian. "The 1970's - Dark They Were and Golden Eyed," ''The Art of Brian Bolland'', p. 48.〕 Illustrator and author James Cawthorn also produced adverts were for "Dark They Were and Golden Eyed" in 1977; they appeared in ''Time Out'' and other magazines. His illustrations were also featured on paper carrier bags used by the shop. (Cawthorn's graphic novels were published by David Britton's Savoy Press in Manchester.) Later adverts were created by Rod Vass, who designed and illustrated posters and carrier bags for the shop. The shop later moved to a much larger ground floor and basement premises in St Anne's Court off Wardour Street in Soho. It closed in 1981. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed (bookshop)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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