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Children’s publisher Bog Eyed Books have just published a fab collection of Tor Freeman‘s Welcome to Oddleigh, available now in all good book shops and through online retailers. Collecting stories from the eponymous webcomic, Welcome to Oddleigh, we’re introduced to Chief Inspector Jessie and Sergeant Sid are tasked with policing the town of Oddleigh. It’s noContinue reading Bog Eyed Books collects Tor Freeman’s “Welcome to Oddleigh”
Jeff Loveness, Jakub Rebelka, Colin Bell Boom! Studios “No… Not here. I don’t belong here. But the voice comes… And whispers the truth: ‘Yes. This was always the end. This was always your story’” The most famous betrayal in history; two friends, inseparable then sundered in a violent, bloody scene. No, not friends, more, oneContinue reading In Review: Judas by Jeff Loveness, Jakub Rebelka and Colin Bell
Author and broadcaster Danny Wallace is a lifelong Beano fan who grew up in Dundee, the home of the comic – and The Dandy, too, and in a BBC Radio 4 Extra programme Menace to Society, first broadcast when the comic reached its 75th anniversary, currently back on the station’s web site, he looks at theContinue reading BBC Radio 4 Extra re-broadcasts Danny Wallace’s Beano documentary, “Menace to Society”
Adrift Created by John Tucker 40 pages – Black and White – £2 Launching at Thought Bubble Festival this month The General Idea: This is a world exactly like ours. Full of motorways and people and forks. One day, gravity decided that it wanted to just up and go. Suddenly and without any kind ofContinue reading In Preview: “Adrift” by John Tucker
Beano has achieved a new Guinness World Records title at the opening of the new V&A Dundee, launching the world’s largest competition to finish a unique comic strip. The iconic British children’s entertainment brand received an excess of 650 entrants at yesterday’s 3D Festival, to achieve the GWR title for largest “Finish the Comic Strip”Continue reading Beano gains Guinness World Record for Finish the Comic Strip” competition