A Call for Contributions for a collected volume on Comics and Art History was recently announced by editors Ian Horton and Maggie Gray, who are currently in discussions with a major academic publisher about this project
Month: November 2019
Eco Kids Planet’s ‘Britain’s Amazing Islands’ issue out now
The seaweed-eating sheep of North Ronaldsay! The car crash-causing wallabies of the Isle of Man! Just two topics writer JD Savage has covered for Eco Kids Planet’s ‘Britain’s Amazing Islands’ issue.
New Jurassic Park-inspired posters and more now on sale from Vice Press
Vice Press have followed up the news of the release of limited edition Shaun of the Dead, Silent Running, Thundercats and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles posters with some more terrific, limited edition, film-inspired releases. On offer now from Vice Press… Read More ›
New 2000 AD, Judge Dredd Megazine out this week
Nick Percival provides the cover for 2000 AD Prog 2158 on sale this Wednesday, an issue of the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic offering a scintillating smorgasbord if strip action…
Draw Spider-Man for Maisy, and support the work of Read for Good
Spurred by the story of four-year-old Spider-Man and Elsa fan and avid book reader Maisy on BBC Children in Need, who is being treated for cancer, comics artist Neil Roche is asking comic artists to donate drawings of the Marvel superhero to charity Read for Good, to cheer young patients’ day
In Review: Rain by Mary and Bryan Talbot
By Mary and Bryan Talbot Published by Jonathan Cape Set against the backdrop of the disastrous 2015 floods in northern England, it seems more than timely to re-read Rain this weekend, after the recent floods that have impacted on so… Read More ›
Down the Rabbit Hole: Alice in Wonderland, illustrated by A.H. Watson
Here’s some beautiful colour plates from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, and Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll, illustrated by A. H. Watson
New ComicScene out next week, offers free pull out comic
On sale Thursday 21st November, ComicScene Issue 10 features seven new comic strips behind a Judge Dredd cover by John Charles, including four strips in a free 24 page pull out Corker! comic. The idea is comic fans can pull… Read More ›
In Review: Once Upon a Time in France
An international bestseller with over one million copies sold, the French series Once Upon a Time in France, collected here in one omnibus edition, has won the BDGest’Art Best Scenario Award, BDGest’Arts Album of the Year, and Angouleme International Comics Festival Best Series Award, among many others… and I’m not surprised, because it’s a truly astonishing piece of work, on many levels
Adam Hughes joins growing Portsmouth Comic Con 2020 guest list
Portsmouth Comic Con – International Festival of Comics has announced multiple Eisner, Harvey and Inkpot award-winning and New York Times best-selling author, Adam Hughes, to its increasingly impressive Artists Alley line-up for 2020 sponsored by Catawiki. The largest event of… Read More ›