Here’s a list of comics – both US and UK releases – on sale in specialist UK comic shops from tomorrow, Wednesday 1st October 2014, courtesy of First Age Comics, Lancaster. We’ve picked out the titles published by British publishers in bold… Read More ›
Month: September 2014
Lakes Festival “Warm Up” Gets Under Way with “Windows Trail” and exhibition openings
Tickets are now selling fast for some of the Lakes International Comic Art Festival events, and organisers are warning that some events – such as digital comics guru Scott McCloud, Watchmen and Secret Service artist Dave Gibbons, Bone creator… Read More ›
Gerry Anderson’s Firestorm launches on Kickstarter
Anderson Entertainment has announced the launch of Firestorm on the crowd-funding platform Kickstarter this morning (30th September 2014). Fans of iconic Gerry Anderson shows like Space: 1999, Stingray, Captain Scarlet, UFO and Thunderbirds will be able to back the project to… Read More ›
New digital developments for The Beano ahead
DC Thomson is to announce some major developments to expand the digital side of The Beano at Brand Licensing Europe in London next month (7th – 9th October). Dennis the Menace, Gnasher and Minnie the Minx will lead the firm’s… Read More ›
Lakes Festival Focus 2014: Emma Vieceli
In the run up to the Lakes International Comic Art Festival (17th – 19th October), we’re aiming to run a number of interviews spotlighting at least a few of the huge number of guests and comic creators who will be at the event,… Read More ›
Everybody’s Cursed… if writer Stu Perrins has His Way, That Is!
In a quick follow up to our 100% Biodegradable post earlier today, contributor Stu Perrins to tell us about his own anthology comic, Everybody’s Cursed, featuring four short stories he’s written with art by Nick Gonzo, Brian Burke and… Read More ›
SciFi Serial Killers and Drunk Zombies take over 100% Biodegradable!
Werewolf romance, undead wildebeests, murderous aliens, lonely giants, kung-fu kitchen antics… must be time for another slice of digital comic carnage in the form of 100% Biodegradable, then! Feast your eyes on a freakshow of a comic anthology wrapped… Read More ›
Blast from the Past: Miracleman creator Mick Anglo’s “Captain Valiant”
Here’s an intriguing character drawn by from Marvelman – sorry, Miracleman – creator Mick Anglo: “Captain Valiant, Ace of the Interplanetary Police Patrol”, published by the London-based Arnold Book Company in the early 1950s. Space Comics began with Issue 50 in 1953… Read More ›
The Sentient Zombie Space Pigs return!
We’re pleased to report that the second issue of Sentient Zombie Space Pigs from Disconnected Press, written by Lizzie Boyle and drawn by partner Conor Boyle, is now on sale – and it looks just as fun as the first issue, which we… Read More ›
Knockabout Comics, VIZ and other comic rebels get set to subvert the Lakes Festival
The Edinburgh Festival has its own Fringe, and every major political party conference has its fringe events, both straight-laced and bizarre… and now this year’s Lakes International Comic Art Festival (17th – 19th October 2014) has gained its own subversive edge, courtesy… Read More ›