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• This Week’s UK Graphic Novel Releases – 27th September 2026

  By John Freeman on 28 September 2026 • ( 0 )

  

  Your guide to some of the graphic novel releases available through UK bookshops this week

• Britain’s Greatest Superheroes’ 50th Anniversary: Celebrating Captain Britain

  By David Brazier on 20 September 2026

  

  David Brazier celebrates 50 years of Britain’s leading Marvel character

• Diamond UK British Publishers Books Solicitations – September 2026

  By John Freeman on 11 September 2026

  

  Starlord archive, new work from Gill Hatcher, and Black Mirror, too

• First guests announced for Vworp Meet Manchester Doctor Who Birthday Bash

  By John Freeman on 3 October 2026 • ( 0 )

  

  Big Manchester Who birthday event in the works

• T-Shirt Makers Weird Fish offer chance to win Exclusive BEANO Art

  By John Freeman on 3 October 2026 • ( 0 )

  

  Join the shoals and celebrate 75 years of Dennis the Menace with Weird Fish tie in t-shirts

• Buster comic art, Doctor Who fan rarities and more on offer in latest Phil-Comics auction

  By John Freeman on 3 October 2026 • ( 0 )

  

  A great selection of British comics, art, and more, at auction this weekend

• Frank Quitely announced as winner of the Sergio Aragonés International Award for Excellence in Comic Art

  By John Freeman on 2 October 2026 • ( 0 )

  

  Top British artists joins the ranks of this prestigious award’s winners

• Roads Not Taken: The 1632 Comic

  By John Freeman on 2 October 2026 • ( 2 )

  

  Plenty of comic projects founder early, for different reasons. This was one of them

• Crowdfunding Spotlight: Get Ready for Murderbot, The Graphic Novel

  By John Freeman on 2 October 2026 • ( 0 )

  

  “As a heartless killing machine, I was a terrible failure…”

• 5 Space Opera Comics

  By John Freeman on 1 October 2026 • ( 0 )

  

  David Ferguson explores some top science fiction comic sagas…

• $716,750 for Captain America Leads Heritage’s recent Comics and Comic Art Auctions to staggering $18.17 Million

  By John Freeman on 1 October 2026 • ( 0 )

  

  The appetite for appealing classic comic art is undimmed in two recent Heritage Auctions events

• In Review: Avengers: Endgame Encore

  By Tim Robins on 1 October 2026 • ( 1 )

  

  Re-edited movie re-released ahead of that Doomsday thing a-coming soon…

• Strawjack: “Figgerty’s Gallop” – Page 10

  By John Freeman on 1 October 2026 • ( 0 )

  

  A spy, you say? Strawjack is watched as he returns home… but he has planned for that!

• New Gerry Anderson’s The Secret Service collection out next month

  By John Freeman on 1 October 2026 • ( 0 )

  

  Includes new documentary fronted by Matthew Sweet

• Comic Social Announces Launch of a Dedicated App Built exclusively for Comic Readers

  By John Freeman on 30 September 2026 • ( 0 )

  

  New comics community network app now in beta

• New comics talent storms into Aces Weekly volume 82

  By John Freeman on 30 September 2026 • ( 0 )

  

  The latest volume of the long running digital anthology begins its run

• Crowdfunding Spotlight: The Arts of Eddie Campbell

  By John Freeman on 30 September 2026 • ( 0 )

  

  Indie comics veteran Eddie Campbell’s first art book in the works

• British creators recognised in Ringo Awards

  By John Freeman on 30 September 2026 • ( 0 )

  

  Congratulations to all of this year’s winners and nominees!

• On This Day, in 1972, Britain welcomed the arrival of The Mighty World of Marvel

  By John Freeman on 30 September 2026 • ( 5 )

  

  Celebrate the “birth” of Marvel UK back in 1972!

• Re-Live arts-in-health charity announces latest life story comic, Here & Now

  By John Freeman on 29 September 2026 • ( 0 )

  

  Welsh arts-in-health charity Re-Live are about to launch Here & Now Issue 1, their latest life story comic

• In Review: Hope

  By Tim Robins on 29 September 2026 • ( 0 )

  

  An isolated border village in Hope Harbour, South Korea, near the Demilitarized Zone, faces an unfolding extraterrestrial invasion. The narrative shifts perspectives to make the alien invaders the protagonists. Review by Tim Robins SPOILERS AHEAD Hope? Nope. I’d like to… Read More ›

• Don’t Miss “Support Animals” by Chris Webster

  By downthetubes Guests on 29 September 2026 • ( 0 )

  

  British indie comics talent Chris Webster is publishing an extraordinary new graphic novel through Instagram. Mal Earl reports…

• Coming Soon: Corpse Talk: Dead, Famous and Very Chatty

  By John Freeman on 29 September 2026 • ( 0 )

  

  These chatty corpses will have you in stitches

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