The latest edition of EAGLE Times, the magazine of the Eagle Society, devoted to Eagle comic and its many creators, is out nowContinue reading New Eagle Times highlights Tintin’s lunar adventure and rare British custom comic, The Shell
A Comics Curiosity: The 1990s British “Smurfs Comic”
With a major exhibition dedicated to Peyo‘s The Smurfs part of this year’s Lakes International Comic Art Festival, running into November in Kendal, what better time to step back to the 1990s, when Maida Vale-based DeVere Entertainment published a British Smurfs comic? The Smurfs story began in October 1958, in the pages of the BelgianContinue reading A Comics Curiosity: The 1990s British “Smurfs Comic”
Dark Horse announces Blacksad: The Complete Stories for 2020 release
US publisher Dark Horse Comics has announced a complete collection of Spanish creators Juan Díaz Canales and Juanjo Guarnido’s award-winning and internationally acclaimed Blacksad series in Blacksad: The Complete Stories – well, to date, anyway…Continue reading Dark Horse announces Blacksad: The Complete Stories for 2020 release
1970s “Flying Furies”, The Aeronauts, recalled
Picking up on our recent story about Tales from Europe, The Singing, Ringing Tree and The White Horses, who remembers The Aeronauts… or as older readers might remember them, from Lion comic – “The Flying Furies“? Not to be confused with the upcoming feature film starring Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones, directed by Tom Harper,Continue reading 1970s “Flying Furies”, The Aeronauts, recalled
Must have bandes dessinées for your bookshelf, by artist Keith Page
Charlotte Corday and Dan Dare artist Keith Page picks out some of his favourite bandes dessinées… Anyone who has visited a French comics shop will be aware of the vast and bewildering varieties of books displayed. Here are a few I found interesting that are well worth reading – or simply viewing, if you’re bereftContinue reading Must have bandes dessinées for your bookshelf, by artist Keith Page