A wide-ranging interview over at Licensing.biz with Ian Downes at Start Licensing has hinted at some major plans afoot to celebrate the Beano‘s latest milestone next year. As well as a raft of new tie-in products, a big live celebration… Read More ›
Month: September 2017
eOneBook, a manga comics ebook reader that looks like a book!
E Ink Holdings, “E Ink”, a leading innovator of electronic ink technology, has announced a partnership with Progress Technologies Inc., a technical service for design development, to bring E Ink’s ePaper modules to a first-of-its-kind E-Manga solution, the eOneBook. Developed… Read More ›
Taschen’s The Marvel Age of Comics 1961–1978 by Roy Thomas released
It was an age of mighty heroes, misunderstood monsters, and complex villains. With the publication of Fantastic Four #1 in November 1961, comics giant Marvel inaugurated a transformative era in pop culture. Through the next two decades, the Hulk, Spider-Man,… Read More ›
Out Now: Judge Dredd Megazine Issue 388
Judge Dredd Megazine 388, featuring a cover by Alex Ronald, is on sale now in all good UK newsagents and via various digital platforms. Along with a great selection of strips and a smashing “Whatever Happened To…?” supplement, the issue includes… Read More ›
Grant Morrison and Darick Robertson’s Happy! gets SYFY premiere in November in US
Happy! gets its premiere in the US on the revamped SYFY channel Wednesday 29th November, based on the New York Times best-selling author Grant Morrison and Darick Robertson’s graphic novel of the same name. The series from Universal Cable Productions… Read More ›
Death of major Robotech character brings Titan’s smash-hit first to explosive close, new arc announced
A major character will be killed off in Titan’s new Robotech series, Harmony Gold USA and Titan Comics has announced, paving the way for a stunning new arc penned by fan favourite writer Brian Wood (DMZ, Briggs Land) and legendary… Read More ›
Out Now: 2000AD Prog 2049
This week, 2000AD has wrapped every current story, in preparation for a fantastic “jump on” Prog 2050 next Wednesday to encourage new readers. This week’s line up, lurking behind a cover by Alex Ronald, is as follows… Favourite strip this… Read More ›
Back Read: American Eagles by Garth Ennis and Simon Coleby
Garth Ennis returned to his roots of creating compelling and gripping war comics with Dreaming Eagles from US publisher Aftershock Comics, drawn by Simon Coleby. The collection was published last year and if you missed it, then track a copy… Read More ›
New Liverpool-based indie Cog Life Comics to launch at Thought Bubble
New indie comics publisher Cog Life Comics wages war against the mundane world, as they launch their first comic, Isolation, at this year’s Thought Bubble Sequential Art Festival on 23rd September 2017. Founded in January, Cog Life Comics have been… Read More ›
Diamond Book Distributors Top 25 Best-Selling Graphic Novels – August 2017
Diamond Book Distributors has published its top 25 best-selling graphic novels from the publishers they distribute, based on sales data collected by Bookscan. In August, the Starfinder Core Rulebook from Paizo was the number one selling book, a science fiction… Read More ›