Episode 58 of Doctor Who: Panel to Panel is available for download, so grab your copy of The Crimson Hand graphic novel and flip through it as host Jeremy Bement chats with comic creator Dan McDaid about his run on the… Read More ›
Month: July 2016
New Danger Mouse comic launches
DC Thomson has launched its Danger Mouse magazine, a four-weekly magazine aimed at primary kids. It’s of course magazine is based on the hit CBBC show that’s successfully introduced secret agent Danger Mouse to whole new audience, saving London, saving the world… Read More ›
Comic Creator Spotlight: A Story from “Buscavidas” by Carlos Trillo and Alberto Breccia, in English
As a supplement to artist Ron Tiner‘s thee-part series on the life and work of Argentinian comics creator Alberto Breccia, here’s six pages from his work Buscavidas (a title which has different titles in English, among them “Story Gatherer”, “Scandal… Read More ›
Awesome Comics Podcast Episode 55: Matt Rooke and Bubbles O’Seven
The Awesome Comics Podcast Episode 55, features Matt Rooke, co-creator of Apes ‘n’ Capes, and brings you the lowdown on some talking comics … and apes! Matt Rooke, the artist behind Apes ‘n’ Capes and the brand new primate spy… Read More ›
Neil Gaiman and Shane Oakley partner on “Forbidden Brides” for Dark Horse
Dark Horse have announced Neil Gaiman (Sandman) is returning to one of his darkly complicated short stories in Neil Gaiman’s Forbidden Brides of the Faceless Slaves in the Secret House of the Night of Dread Desire. That’s surely got to… Read More ›
Something For The Weekend (w/c 18th July 2016) – Support Your Local Comic Shop!
So, last week as I was promoting the week’s new comics, I was a bit flippant about the price rises for imported US comics British comic shops will have to pass on to their customers (imposed by Diamond, who had no choice, either,… Read More ›
Lakes International Comic Art Festival – Festival Flash Guide!
The fourth Lakes International Comic Art Festival will run from 14-16 October 2016 in Kendal, Cumbria, celebrating great comic art from across the world – and the full details for every ticketed event have now been announced. Here’s a “Flash Guide”… Read More ›
Comic Creator Spotlight: The Life and Work of Alberto Breccia – Part Two by Ron Tiner
He’s perhaps best known to British comic fans for his work through the Bardon Press Features office in Barcelona for Fleetway Edtions in the 1960s, first on Super Detective Picture Library Number 172 “Passport to Peril” (an adaptation of the novel, Assignment Helene by Edward… Read More ›
Caliber Comics pick up Jim Alexander’s “Amongst the Stars” project
US publisher Caliber Comics is to release a new edition of the Amongst the Stars collection most recently published here in the UK by Planet Jimbot. Written by Jim Alexander with art from Mike Perkins and Will Pickering, Amongst The Stars reveals aliens… Read More ›
“Blankets” creator Craig Thompson joins 2016 Lakes International Comic Art Festival line-up
The Lakes International Comic Art Festival (14th -16th October 2016) has confirmed an appearance by one of the most critically-acclaimed cartoonists of his generation, award-winning author Craig Thompson, alongside current collaborator, the acclaimed French artist Edmond Baudoin. Thompson is the writer and artist of… Read More ›