Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity have chosen “Flying to Neverland”as their Christmas card this year, exclusively available from their web store. The image was created by Fin Cramb and Stephen White (aka Stref) for the wonderful JM Barrie’s Peter Pan The Graphic… Read More ›
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Creators @ Thought Bubble 2015: Part 2 – Small Press
The ninth annual Thought Bubble Festival took place in Leeds over the week of 9-15 November 2015, however it is the huge two-day comic convention over the weekend of 14-15 November that the vast majority of punters and creators think… Read More ›
Creators @ Thought Bubble 2015 : Part 1 – Artists
The ninth annual Thought Bubble Festival took place in Leeds over the week of 9-15 November 2015, however it is the huge two day comic convention over the weekend of 14-15 November that the vast majority of punters and creators… Read More ›
Eagle Daze: The Life and Times of Leonard James Matthews – Part One
Leonard Matthews, General Managing Editor of Fleetway and the Eagle Group of Comics, was a “Creative Visionary”… but that, Roger Perry argues in his extensive ten part biography of the man which begins today on downthetubes, is only due to… Read More ›
In Review: Thought Bubble 2015
The culmination of the Thought Bubble Comics Arts Festival in Leeds was this last weekend and, as with previous years, it was a busy bustle of comics in all forms. I was there from the Friday night party to the… Read More ›
In Review: I Love This Part by Tillie Walden
Created by Tillie Walden Published by Avery Hill Publishing 68 pages The Story: Two girls are growing up in America. They are in school and are tied up in all that a life like this includes. They discover a friendship… Read More ›
In Review: MULP – Sceptre Of The Sun Issue 2
The second issue of writer Matt Gibbs and artist Sara Dunkerton’s five issue MULP: Sceptre Of The Sun, now being published by Improper Books, is being launched at Thought Bubble 2015. This anthropomorphic adventure series set in the 1930s follows a… Read More ›
52: Graeme Neil Reid’s Year In Time And Space
Just over a year ago artist Graeme Neil Reid, whose artwork has appeared in 2000AD, Judge Dredd Megazine, Radio Times, and The Dangerous Book Of Heroes, began to paint A6 watercolours of characters from Doctor Who. His intention was to… Read More ›
In Review: Night Post by Benjamin Read and Laura Trinder
Improper Book’s first hardback publication, Night Post, has been on limited release for some time now but it is just about to become available to a wider audience through Diamond. Writer Benjamin Read, of Porcelain, Butterfly Gate and the recent… Read More ›
In Review – Revenger: The Shadow Constabulary
Art, Story and Lettering by Warwick Fraser-CoombeSuggested for Mature Readers The Story: The first issue in the series opens with the leather masked Revenger sitting in a room that is trashed. There is cash lying about all over the floor… Read More ›