With the good news of the return of 2D, Northern Ireland’s Comics Festival, for its fifth year in the Verbal Arts Centre in Londonderry at the beginning of June, perhaps it is an appropriate time to take a look at… Read More ›
Month: February 2011
10thology project to debut at Cardiff comic expo
The Cardiff International Comic Expo takes place at the end of this month – and with it, the launch of 10thology, an exciting looking comics project featuring a host of top Welsh comic creators, including Mike Collins, Si Wyatt and… Read More ›
"It’s… Jokes" is latest Signature Publishing title for kids
Signature Publishing, whose titles include Dinosaur King and Dinomite, are to release It’s… Jokes magazine later this month. The new magazine is the fourth in their successful “It’s…” series, aimed at 5 to 10 year olds and, say the publishers,… Read More ›
Skyjack to launch Moshi Monsters title
Skyjack Publishing, the company behind their own title, Megaton and who have also packaged comics such as Ben 10 for Egmont, launch a new UK monthly magazine, Moshi Monsters, later this month. Based on the hugely popular online game that… Read More ›
Classic British Comics Abroad: Yugoslavia
STRIP Magazine publisher Ivo Milicevic read our recent feature on Classic British Comics Collected and kindly sent us some scans of some classic strips that were syndicated into former Yugoslavia, where comic fans were also once enthralled by Dan Dare,… Read More ›
‘Next Blog’ brings news of John Watkiss latest work
This is one of those ‘lucky finds’ on the Web, courtesy of Blogger’s ‘Next Blog’ button. In the past, these often used to throw up random spam sites, but it seems Google has been cataloguing their blogs, so clicking ‘Next… Read More ›
2D 2011: Brush Strokes In Stroke City
2D, held at the Verbal Arts Centre in Londonderry, is the UK’s most westerly comics convention and for the last four years it has been the largest comics event in Northern Ireland if not the whole island of Ireland. This… Read More ›
SciFi Art Now Creator Interview: Graeme Neil Reid
About two years ago, Graeme Neil Reid went full time as an illustrator after having produced work part time and in conjunction with his job in the marketing and advertising industries for over 15 years. “These days I spend every… Read More ›
Classic British Superheroes reprinted
Black Tower Adventure Volume 1 Following up on our recent story about classic British comics reprinted (now an expanded standalone page here) The Black Tower Gold Collection – the brainchild of Terry Hooper, who edits the ComicBitsOnline web site – … Read More ›
Adam Eterno art on sale on eBay
Three pages of Adam Eterno art by Solano Lopez are currently on sale on eBay. All three pieces are from the Peter Hansen IPC Archive Collection, who bought IPC’s entire archive of art some years back, and are all from… Read More ›