Background notes to this weekend’s foray across 100 years plus of comics history
Steve Holland
Lawless: The Bunker set to delivers great day of comics today
Don’t miss this free online British comics event, kicking off at 10am!
In Memoriam: David Ashford, British Comics Historian
British comics fandom has lost one its greatest archivists
In Review: Bear Alley Books “Longbow” classic British comics collections
Offering intense, fast-paced action adventure, “Longbow of the Cheyenne” is surely classic British weekly comics at its best…
Calling Paul Temple… in Germany!
A classic British newspaper strip resurfaces in a new German collection
London Tower Bridge comic strip mystery solved!
The British comics archivist community solves a magazine strip mystery…
2000AD art and more offered in upcoming Heritage Auction
The work of several British comic artists features in an upcoming Heritage Auction
In Review: Rocket – The First Space Age Weekly
Steve Winders reviews Steve Holland’s new book about a famous, but short-lived 1950s British comic…
Bear Alley Books heads back to the 1950s with new book on “Rocket” comic
Bear Alley Books, run by author Steve Holland, is bullishly battling back against the perils of the Coronavirus Pandemic with the release of a new guide to a short-lived 1950s weekly boys comic, Rocket, and new editions of two previous releases.
Snapshots in (Comics) Time: A Bethnal Green Newsagent, 1951
This photo of “S Lavner“, newsagent and tobacconist, situated at 241 Bethnal Green Road, E2, was taken in Bethnal Green by seminal British post-war artist, photographer, collagist, printmaker and teacher Nigel Henderson – and offers a fascinating snapshot of London’s… Read More ›