Doctor Who Adventures’ Christmas issue is packed with festive fun – and the digital features include a look at regular artist John Ross at work. The latest edition of the junior Doctor Who title from Immediate Media includes a preview… Read More ›
Month: December 2013
Paul Gravett’s “Comics Art” named “Book of the Year”
Two top critics have made Paul Gravett‘s Comics Art their top choices of 2013, leaving the acclaimed comic author “really chuffed”. In The Observer, Rachel Cooke has picked Comics Art as one of her Graphic Books of The Year: “Those… Read More ›
Have some vampires over for Christmas!
Chapter 4 of DC Comics‘ digital first Vampire Diaries series goes on sale today and features “Through a Glass Darkly” by Leah Moore and John Reppion, drawn by the hugely talented George Kambadais, who has posted two unused covers for… Read More ›
New Dennis the Menace books and other Beano merchandise announced
DC Thomson is celebrating a busy year for The Beano‘s Dennis the Menace and Gnasher property as Penguin joins a raft of licensees with a planned range of children’s books and Golden Bear announces new toys. The new range of… Read More ›
Paragon Issue 15 delivered in time for Christmas – what a great present!
A new issue of Paragon, one of Britain’s terrific independently published anthologies is out now, just in time for Christmas – 44 pages of wonderful comic strips wrapped in a Mike Mignola-inspired cover by Davey Candlish and Jim Cameron. It’s… Read More ›
Doctor Who annual art, rare props to go under the hammer at Bonhams
Bonhams next Entertainment Memorabilia auction (taking place on Wednesday 18th December) hosts an enticing line-up that includes some fantastic Doctor Who items such as art from some of the series annuals by Paul Crompton and a number of props from… Read More ›
Lost in Action: Marvel UK’ s Warhide
(Updated, added Carles comments): Meet Warhide, the world’s first skinned communist super hero. A Russian captured by the Mujahideen in Afghanistan, skinned, then coated in a liquid carbon skin that’s as strong as diamond, he was the surreal brainchild of… Read More ›
Happy 60th Birthday, “Minnie the Minx”!
The Beano has dedicated its Christmas cover to the mischievous Minnie the Minx this week, to celebrate 60 years of the world’s wildest tom boy. Her solo appearance is a first in the comic’s history. The bumper Christmas issue goes… Read More ›
Sneek Peek – Marvel’s Revolutionary War, reviving Marvel UK characters
(Updated 14/12/13 to include all issue details): Marvel Comics has just released three tantalising pages, below, from their upcoming Revolutionary War limited series, which re-introduces the Marvel UK characters first created back in the 1990s to the wider Marvel universe…. Read More ›
Keeping the Flame: thank you, Doctor Who Magazine
While Doctor Who fans across the globe celebrate 50 years of their favourite TV drama this year, Robin Barnard pays tribute to the various media – and one media outlet in particular – that helped keep the Time Lord from… Read More ›