The77 is a brand new, retro anthology comic currently seeking crowdfunding on Kickstarter that aims to be a fantastic quarterly comic showcase for UK’s emerging talent, present day professionals and heroes from your childhood, and downthetubes caught up with its… Read More ›
Month: January 2020
George Takei’s “They Called Us Enemy” scoops Asian/Pacific American Award for Young Adult Literature
They Called Us Enemy, the New York Times-bestselling graphic memoir of actor and campaigner George Takei, published by Top Shelf Productions, was announced today as the winner of the Asian/Pacific American Award for Young Adult Literature by the Asian/Pacific American… Read More ›
In Review: Invasion – 1984
By John Wagner, Alan Grant (writing as Rick Clark) and Eric Bradbury Publisher: Treasury of British Comics / Rebellion Out: Now Review by Andrew Darlington WAR! What is it good for? Absolutely NOTHING! I was born to the immediate post-war… Read More ›
Learn to Draw Caricatures with MAD Magazine’s Tom Richmond
Top MAD Magazine cartoonist Tom Richmond is running two workshops in Europe this summer, one in Vienna and one in Dublin
Marvel UK’s “Strip” celebrated, 30 years on
In his latest regular “Hatch, Match & Dispatch” features on major British comics anniversaries on his brilliant Rusty Staples blog, comics writer Michael Carroll notes the upcoming 30th anniversary of Strip, published by Marvel UK
Cover Spotlight: Best of 2000 AD #1 – 4
As the countdown to the launch of Rebellion’s new Best of 2000 AD title continues, here’s all four covers for the first issues, revealed last year – but perhaps you need further encouragement to order…
Gerry Anderson’s “Starcruiser” kits in the spotlight
Jeremy Briggs article on the surprisingly long history of Gerry Anderson’s Starcruiser concept features in the current issue of the Airfix Collectors Club’s Constant Scale journal
WebFind: A Conversation-starting 1970s Ford Cortina Poster
Following up on yesterday’s London Underground “Lost Posters” item, here’s a poster advertising the two-door Ford Cortina Mark III, uncovered after the closure of the old Odeon cinema on King Street, Lancaster, which ended its days as the Regal, finally demolished in 2010 to make way for a new hotel
WebFind: A Conversation-starting 1970s Ford Cortina Poster
Following up on yesterday’s London Underground “Lost Posters” item, here’s a poster advertising the two-door Ford Cortina Mark III, uncovered after the closure of the old Odeon cinema on King Street, Lancaster, which ended its days as the Regal, finally demolished in 2010 to make way for a new hotel
WebFind: Lost Posters on London Underground
Back in 2010, a hidden time capsule of various advertising posters – ranging from the Ideal Home Exhibition to Pepsodent toothpaste – was discovered in an abandoned part of a London Underground tube station, boarded up since 1959