For over twenty-five years, Tripwire has been championing US and UK comics first in print and, since 2015, on the web. For the second Portsmouth Comic Con, taking place 4th-5th May 2019, Tripwire will be launching The Tripwire Awards, an… Read More ›
Month: December 2018
2000AD Villains Takeover Special – Full Intel Released!
In time for Free Comic Book Day in May 2019, the bad guys take over the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic with a nefarious new special full of criminal capers and villainous ventures – the 2000 AD Villains Takeover Special! As we… Read More ›
ComicScene comes to newsagents across the UK tomorrow!
ComicScene – a dedicated magazine to comics and comic culture – relaunches tomorrow, Saturday 22nd December – and will be on sale in selected WHSmith, McColls and all good comic shops across the UK. Available from 1000 locations in the… Read More ›
New “Eagle Times” tracks down New Eagle’s “Data File” artist, Lionel Jeans
The new Eagle Times– Winter 2018 Vol. 31, Number 4 -is now available and is packed with some entertaining material on both the original and 1980s Eagle comics – including two great items on the “Data Files” cutaways that ran in the… Read More ›
Free Comic Book Day 2019 Full List of Comic Books Announced, plus a 2000AD 99p Special!
Free Comic Book Day (FCBD) 2019 features an amazing selection of comic book titles for the industry’s most anticipated annual event which happens Saturday 4th May 2019 at participating comic book shops worldwide. British publishers Rebellion and Titan Comics have… Read More ›
Rebellion dips its toe into the “Funny Pages” with Free Comic Book Day humour title
Rebellion has tapped into its funny bone for a new, all-ages Free Comic Book Day title, which marks its eighth year as a Silver Sponsor of Free Comic Book Day. Taking full of advantage of the huge number of humour… Read More ›
Meet Hotdog and Mustard, Marc Jackson’s latest mad creations
Hotdog and Mustard is the latest crazy comic caper from cartoonist Marc Jackson, the brains behind digital comic Goof! Hotdog is a big dog, Mustard is a small dog. When Mustard opens a parcel addressed to his owner Dave, what’s… Read More ›
Transformers return in March – new comic from IDW announced
US comics publisher IDW Publishing has announced that a brand-new Transformers series will debut in March 2019 that will explore the very moment when a glorious, peaceful Cybertron begins its downward spiral into chaos. Available twice monthly, IDW’s Transformers comic will be written by Brian Ruckley,… Read More ›
This is Enid Blyton one-shot magazine on sale now from DC Thomson
This almost ducked under our radar, but on sale now in all good newsagents and supermarkets is a one-shot magazine celebrating author Enid Blyton, published by DC Thomson. The adventures of The Famous Five and the mysteries of The Secret… Read More ›
Strasbourg shooting victim honoured by comics community he loved with “Prix Bartek”
Lionel Wurms, president of Alsace Bande Dessinée, and founder of the Strasbulles European Comics Festival, has announced a Call for Entries for the Prix Bartek Prize and Exhibition, in response to the murder of 36-year-old journalist and musician Barto Pedro Orent-Niedzielski,… Read More ›