SEQUENTIAL, the digital comics app created by Panel Nine, has just added The Black Feather Falls, the first of a range of books by Britain’s Soaring Penguin Press. The Black Feather Falls is by Ellen Lindner, the American author of… Read More ›
Day: October 28, 2013
Oscar Zarate, ILYA on Living and Loving in London
Oscar Zarate and ILYA are both London-based graphic novelists who record and reflect their individual relationships with urban life. Both creators are in conversation with Paul Gravett as part of this year’s Comica Festival, revealing how London has helped shape… Read More ›
In Memoriam: Eagle editor Bob Bartholomew
Steve Holland has reported on the passing of Bob Bartholomew, best known to the comics’ world as the editor of Eagle and Boys’ World in the 1960s, who died on Wednesday, 9th October, at the age of 90. “Bob had… Read More ›
Panel Borders: Great British Horror Comics
Today’s Panel Borders radio show concludes a month of episodes looking at horror comics, and includes interviews with a quartet of British creators who work in that genre. Alex Fitch talks to David Hine, author of Strange Embrace and writer… Read More ›
Black Sails and Dark Tales: the Return of Heros the Spartan
Remember how Google Scholar used to have “resting on the shoulder’s of giants” as their strapline? By pure accident, I’m sitting on the same bench with them! I’m in a published book – Frank Bellamy’s Heros the Spartan, out now… Read More ›
Emily Haworth-Booth wins 2013 Observer/Cape/Comica graphic short story prize with ‘Colonic’
33-year-old Emily Haworth-Booth has been announced as the winner of this year’s Observer/Cape/Comica graphic short story prize, for her story ‘Colonic’ – and Michael Parkin as runner up, for his story ‘Lines’. On of this year’s judges, Stephen Collins, author… Read More ›
“Comica Conversations” kick off with UK exclusive preview of Dave McKean’s “Nine Lives”
Comica 2013, the London International Comics Festival, kicks off its season of Comica Conversations with the UK exclusive preview of Dave McKean‘s latest storytelling experiment, which premiered earlier in October at the Graphic festival in Sydney Opera House, entitled Nine… Read More ›