The excellent True Believers Comic Festival returns to Cheltenham Racecourse this very weekend, offering a heady line-up of great comics guests and a panel event that includes the Awesome Comics Podcast team – featuring our very own, patent pending Tony Esmond!… Read More ›
Staz Johnson
Groovy, Baby! Doctor Who Magazine Goes Retro with free Dalek-infested classic comic giveaway
Doctor Who Magazine Issue 508, out now from all good UK newsagents, has a grab bag of treats on offer for fans of 1970s Doctor Who – and great comics. Not only does it include a terrific free gift – a re-presentation… Read More ›
Feel the Power! New Doctor Who Magazine debuts, Steve Dillon remembered
The next issue of Doctor Who Magazine (Issue 505) is published in the UK tomorrow (Thursday 17th November). Alongside a cover feature paying tribute to the Second Doctor, Patrick Troughton (accompanied with rare photographs), there’s an affectionate tribute to artist… Read More ›
Pre-Christmas Comics Goodness planned in Manchester at For the Love of Sci-Fi event
Featuring guests from comics, movies and TV, For the Love of Sci-Fi is a two-day event taking place at Bowlers Exhibition Centre in Manchester on 3rd – 4th December 2016. Comics guests announced so far are Mike Collins, Carlos Ezquerra, Simon Furman, Diego Galindo, Kev Hopgood, Staz Johnson, Mike… Read More ›
Break into ICE this weekend in Birmingham!
ICE – the International Comic Expo – returns to Birmingham for its third year this weekend (10th -11th September 2016). We’ve already mentioned a couple of the exclusive comic launches at this great event, and once again the UK’s Second… Read More ›
Something For The Weekend (w/c 1st August 2016): Torchwood, 2000AD and Lucky Luke!
It’s a busy week for Titan Comics, with the launch of NBA All-star legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar‘s debut comic book Mycroft Holmes – focused on the early, chaotic life of the elder Holmes brother – and their new Torchwood title, written by Captain… Read More ›
Something For The Weekend: This Week’s New Comics (w/c 25th April 2016)
There’s a cracking new story, “Brink”, in this week’s 2000AD Prog 1978 from Dan Abnett and INJ Culbard, which sits very nicely in an all-round thrill-drenched issue of the weekly SF comic, with the mystery of Judge Dredd’s current fat ever… Read More ›
Answers in Blood: An Interview with “Vikings” comic writer Cavan Scott
Cavan Scott counts himself lucky to work in the worlds that first sparked his imagination as a kid. He writes the Doctor Who: The Ninth Doctor comic for Titan, is one of the writers of the Star Wars: Adventures in… Read More ›
Titan Comics “Vikings” by Cavan Scott and Staz Johnson – Sneak Peek at #1!
Titan Comics launches Vikings next week (Wednesday 27th April), based on the sensational MGM show which launched in 2013, and was recently renewed by the History channel for a fifth season of 20 episodes. An Irish-Canadian co-production, the hit Vikings TV… Read More ›
Birmingham Bound: An Interview with Comic Artist Staz Johnson
Staz Johnson began his career in comics drawing strips for Marvel UK and Fleetway before pencilling books like The Mighty Thor and The Avengers for Marvel in the US. A six issue run on Detective Comics lead to him becoming… Read More ›