After a successful launch at the recent Enniskillen Comics Festival, the Belfast originated anthology comic SPLANK! , eited and published by Peter Duncan, is now available, featuring some fabulous new strips from Mike Higgs (creator of “The Cloak”, first published in… Read More ›
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Andy Luke’s new comic “We Shall Not Be Stapled” launches this week in Belfast
We Shall Not Be Stapled , a new anthology, will get a lunchtime launch at Comic Book Guys in The Spires Shopping Centre, Belfast tomorrow – Wednesday 3rd May, 1 – 2.00pm. Copies will also be available at the Enniskillen Comic… Read More ›
Celebrating the British Small Press: 60 Great Small Comic Press (Part One)
When Marvel UK shrunk its original strip output in the mid-1990s, not being a 2000AD reader, comics creator Andy Luke had nowhere to go. He came to find that the small press, often photocopied works, were a core part of… Read More ›
Wonderfully weird: John Robbins “A Hand of Fingers”
He has lettered hundreds of pages of comics by other creators, and for years plugged and reviewed Irish and British publications on defunct small press-centric website Bugpowder. Now, Dubliner John Robbins has released A Hand Of Fingers, a terrific anthology of… Read More ›
Creating Comics: The Making of To End All Wars’ “Bottomley – Brand of Britain”
Andy Luke reveals the making of one of the strips featured in the Eisner Award-nominated anthology To End All Wars – “Bottomley – Brand of Britain”… On Friday night, the San Diego Comic Con will announce the Eisner Awards, where… Read More ›
Alan Burrows covers 100% Biodegradable, the digital action comic anthology
Top artist Alan Burrows – best known for his work on Eagle and Red Dwarf – has provided a cover for the latest issue of the science fiction and fantasy digital comic 100% Biodegradable (Issue 9) – available now. The latest… Read More ›
Rob Jackson releases RhiZome sci-fi anthology comic
(via BugPowder): On sale now is the RhiZome Anthology, a weird but wonderful-looking 48-page black and white science-fiction and fantasy anthology, co-edited by Rob Jackson and Kyle Baddeley-Read. The anthology contains stories by Max Mose, Rob, Kyle Baddeley-Read, John Robbins… Read More ›
Courageous Mayhem: Irish comic launches Saturday
Courageous Mayhem is a boy’s own adventure style compendium, a veritable who’s who of the Irish comics scene. Among it’s eighty-four pages are the critically acclaimed Paddy Lynch (Big Jim), Alan Nolan (And The Blood Flowed Green), Phil Barrett (Where’s… Read More ›