This month sees the demise of Mark Millar’s CLiNT, the initial announcement made via US comic site Comic Book Resources, prompting bemusement from comic news sites that more regularly cover comic titles on the British newsstand. (Even now, downthetubes has… Read More ›
Month: August 2013
Leonardo In Edinburgh
No, not the hero in a half shell, the one the turtle was named after. He may predate all forms of comics, no matter what you consider to be the first published comic, but given that the Edinburgh International Book… Read More ›
Holy Underwear, Batman! Diesel get personal
Clothing company Diesel has launched a new DC Comics Super Heroes intimate collection, under license from Warner Bros. Consumer Products. Inspired by the classic 1966 Batman television series – starring Adam West as the Caped Crusader – Warner believes that… Read More ›
Stripped Festival offers early release of collected ‘Young Avengers’
Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie’s take on Marvel’s Young Avengers has been widely credited as one of the most innovative and exciting comic series of the year. Young Avengers Volume 1 – collecting the first five issues of the comic… Read More ›
Crucible Colour Notes: Ardahl
We know we’re only a couple of episodes in, but we hope you like Ardahl. He’s a bit of a man of mystery – his origins obscure, known, perhaps, only to Truug… and perhaps even his old friend doesn’t know… Read More ›
In Review: Grandville – Bête Noire
Writer/artist Bryan Talbot’s anthropomorphic steampunk saga, inspired by the humanoid animal illustrations of French artist JJ Grandville, reaches its third book with Grandville: Bête Noire published by Jonathan Cape. Detective Inspector Archie LeBrock is called from Scotland Yard to Grandville… Read More ›
Other Worlds: Mike Carey’s City of Silk and Steel
Earlier this year, the Carey gang – Mike Carey, wife Linda and daughter Louise – saw the UK publication of City of Silk and Steel by Gollancz, a wonderful Arabian Nights-style novel I discovered quite by chance recently in Lancaster Library…. Read More ›
London’s “GeekFest” pulls the crowds, Paul Cornell wins award for “London Falling”
More than 1500 “geeks” converged this weekend for Nine Worlds Geekfest, London’s first annual celebration of geek culture, which included talks from comic creators and SF authors, discussions, workshops, comedy and music dedicated to all things geeky, with many fans… Read More ›
Scar Comics launches Kickstarter appeal for ‘Forgotten Planet’ project
In 2006, scientists announced Pluto was to be de-classified as a planet, and many felt a slight pang of disappointment as our Solar System lost its little Ice baby. But what if there was a darker reason behind this cosmic… Read More ›
TOXIC comic sales up, but bad news for other news stand titles in latest ABCs
There’s good news and bad news for British news stand publishers lurking in the latest ABC sales figures for January – June 2103 for comics and related magazines, with some titles on sale in WH Smiths and other newsagents celebrating… Read More ›