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• British and Irish Comic Conventions and Signings

  By John Freeman on September 30, 2025

  

  Your guides to upcoming British and Irish comic events

• New gothic graphic novel, “Nightmare at Northanger Abbey”, by Keith Page, available now

  By John Freeman on October 6, 2025 • ( 0 )

  

  A unique Jane Austen steampunk mash up!

• Edinburgh’s TAGS Fest returns for its biggest year yet

  By John Freeman on October 6, 2025 • ( 0 )

  

  Independent comic makers in the spotlight!

• Phoenix Fest heads to Oxford in April

  By John Freeman on October 6, 2025 • ( 0 )

  

  You won’t want to miss it!

• Comics Laureate Bobby Joseph on the BBC

  By John Freeman on October 6, 2025 • ( 0 )

  

  Check out a wide-ranging interview about comics and more

• Banned Books Week spotlights most challenged books, Star Trek’s George Takei Honorary Chair

  By John Freeman on October 6, 2025 • ( 0 )

  

  Star Trek star champions a vital annual campaign

• Call for Papers: Studies in Comics

  By John Freeman on October 5, 2025 • ( 0 )

  

  Academic research, studies, articles wanted

• Dan Dare returns to Finland

  By John Freeman on October 5, 2025 • ( 0 )

  

  New Dan Dare release is a test for the character’s appeal

• Angoulême to host “Censorship & Freedom in Creating Comics” conference

  By John Freeman on October 4, 2025 • ( 0 )

  

  A special event that comes at a vital time

• Mechanical Comics makes limited edition debut from comics advocate Ernesto Priego

  By John Freeman on October 4, 2025 • ( 0 )

  

  An experimental, numbered, (very) limited run!

• Bruce McCall: Visions of the Retrofuture opens soon in New York

  By John Freeman on October 4, 2025 • ( 0 )

  

  Adam Baumgold Fine Art presents the exhibition, Bruce McCall: Visions of the Retrofuture, from 15th October until 7th November 2025, to be held at DFN Projects in New York. Bruce McCall (1935–2023) was a visionary artist and writer whose meticulously… Read More ›

• New Tales of The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles title launches in the UK this week

  By John Freeman on October 4, 2025 • ( 0 )

  

  The Turtles are back, and your local TG Jones should have them!

• Striker goes AI for upcoming Fortieth Anniversary football tale

  By John Freeman on October 3, 2025 • ( 6 )

  

  You thought it was all over…

• Creating Comics: An Interview with “Dan Dare” comic artist Alberto Foche

  By John Freeman on October 3, 2025 • ( 0 )

  

  A chat with the Marvel and Dan Dare artist

• Final issue of Collectors Gazette spotlights “Forgotten Comics Worth a Fortune”

  By John Freeman on October 3, 2025 • ( 0 )

  

  Bowing out with a “Kapow”!

• SPOOKy Cartoon-Art Workshops haunt Macclesfield and Warrington!

  By John Freeman on October 3, 2025 • ( 0 )

  

  Drawing fun for kids!

• DC and Marvel Crossover Comic Books Continue Through 2026

  By John Freeman on October 3, 2025 • ( 0 )

  

  Superman and Spider-Man, together again!

• Six UK regions receive £25 million to bolster creative industries

  By John Freeman on October 3, 2025 • ( 0 )

  

  £8m in grants go to more than 100 small and medium-sized creative businesses across 12 UK regions

• First Look: Doctor Who – The Prison Paradox #1

  By John Freeman on October 2, 2025 • ( 0 )

  

  Meet an unlikely team of allies for the Fifteenth Doctor and Belinda!

• Studio Ghibli and Art History of Anime/Manga talks by Helen McCarthy lined up at Quay Arts

  By John Freeman on October 2, 2025 • ( 0 )

  

  Helen McCarthy, who wrote the first books in English on anime, is giving two talks at Quay Arts, Newport, on the Isle of Wight, over 10th and 11th October 2025.

• 2000AD continues to sizzle, new Prog in store now

  By John Freeman on October 1, 2025 • ( 0 )

  

  Already on form, 2000AD’s recent “facelift” has set it flying

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