Michael Carroll delivers another “Hatch, Match & Dispatch” on his Rusty Staples blog…
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This Week in 1978: Starlord heads back to the stars
Back in 1978 this week, fans of Starlord were facing the fact that one of their favourite comics was no more…
In Review: Sez Dez Book One, by Dez Skinn
Comics writer, editor and publisher Dez Skinn has launched his planned five-volume autobiography project in style
30 Years On: Celebrating “Thunderbirds: The Comic”
Graham Bleathman looks back at a fondly-remembered Gerry Anderson comic of the 1990s…
Who Remembers “Ring Raiders” comic?
Philip Boyce certainly does remember the short-lived Matchbox tie-in comic, and is delivering some real-time reviews
In Memoriam: Fleetway Art Editor John Jackson
John Jackson played an important role in the work to relaunch Eagle in the 1980s, and Roy of the Rovers
Academic Study of Fleetway’s CRISIS comic in the works
Dr William Proctor, Senior Lecturer in Transmedia, Culture and Communication at Bournemouth University has announced his next academic project will be a book-length study of 2000AD sister comic, CRISIS
Snapshot in Time: Brian Woodford and The Launch of Boys’ World, Part Two
A Short Introduction: Before his unexpected passing in 2016, author Roger Perry – a longtime contributor to this site and veteran of the British comics industry – sent downthetubes a number of articles which we planned to run, working back… Read More ›
When British Comics were… European!
Bambos Georgiou takes a look at just some of the European comic strips that once featured in Fleetway’s British weekly comics
The Copyright Cheat Affair: the hair-raising time The Man from U.N.C.L.E met Britain’s Barracuda comic hero
In the second of a series of articles, publisher, comics creator and historian of Tamil comics Nathan Viswa reveals some more disturbing and bizarre instances of British comics conflagration and copyright theft on the Indian sub-continent… When British publisher Fleetway… Read More ›