Every year, in the countdown to the Lakes International Comic Art Festival in October, we bring you a series of interviews with guests at the event. This “Festival Focus” for 2019 is with award-winning comic creators and Festival patrons Bryan… Read More ›
Day: August 23, 2019
DC Thomson teases new “The Victor Files” project
DC Thomson Media is clearly ramping up its “Heritage Brands” output, teasing an impending announcement for “The Victor Files” – a reference to one of the Dundee-based company’s most popular weekly boys adventure comic titles, published between 1961 and 1992
Hemlock Books latest Fantastic Fifties magazine spotlights Hammer Horror
Quite by chance, the result of a chat with author and ComicSceneUK writer Martin Dallard, I came across The Fantastic Fifties magazine published by Hemlock Books, which has been going for a while now. A magazine for lovers of retro… Read More ›
Crowdfunding Spotlight: Living With Cancer – Our Stories
It’s a shocking statistic, but half of us will be diagnosed with a cancer of some sort during our lifetimes. In response, the CHIP Collective have designed Living With Cancer: Our Stories – a comic to explain to us all what it’s like to get a diagnosis, and what effects that has on those around us – and, hopefully, encourage discussion
Design Museum delights: Stanley Kubrick oddities, and the promise of your very own Mars mission
London’s Design Museum is currently hosting Stanley Kubrick: The Exhibition, which includes some comic-related visuals inspired by 2001: A Space Odyssey. running until 17th September. But the space age entertainment doesn’t stop there, because hot on the heels of this major exhibition, you’ll get the chance to travel to Mars without leaving London – in a multi-sensory adventure for all ages