Mezolith, the much-praised, award-winning graphic adventure created by performance storyteller Ben Haggarty and storyboard artist Adam Brockbank, first published in The DFC comic, is to get a US publication through Boom! Studios imprint Archaia – and Ben tells us this new edition… Read More ›
The DFC
The DFC Library Regenerates In August
Thursday 1 August 2013 sees the release of six titles from the DFC Library, the book publishing spin-off from The DFC comic, including a strip not previously reprinted, Jamie Smart’s Fish Head Steve! The predecessor to The Phoenix, The DFC… Read More ›
In Review: Monkey Nuts
One of the humour comic strips in the weekly DFC comic in 2008 and 2009, Monkey Nuts Book 1: The Diamond Egg Of Wonders written by Robin Etherington and illustrated by brother Lorenzo Etherington, was originally released as a DFC… Read More ›
Dave Shelton, editor David Fickling win 2013 Branford Boase Award
Cartoonist Dave Shelton and his editor David Fickling have won the 2013 Branford Boase Award given annually to the author and editor of the most outstanding debut novel for children for A Boy and a Bear in a Boat published… Read More ›
Phoenix launches digital edition on first birthday
If you haven’t sampled The Phoenix – the lively weekly childrens comic aimed at 8-12 year olds that sprang from the ashes of The DFC – then those of you who have or were given shiny iPads for Christmas are… Read More ›
In Review: The Boss
Mix the pupils of a single school year concept in something like Harry Potter plus the control of agents from a command centre from something like NCIS:Los Angeles with the child investigators of, say, Enid Blyton’s Five Find-Outers and Dog… Read More ›
In Review: Super Animal Adventure Squad
The most junior of the third batch of DFC Library titles is Super Animal Adventure Squad written and illustrated by James Turner. Agent K (a cat), Agent Irwin (a pelican), Agent Rex (an iguana), Agent Beesley (a rather posh bee)… Read More ›
In Review: Baggage
The DFC Library returns with the first of its third tranche of titles, and the first one that wasn’t in the weekly DFC – Baggage by writer Robin Etherington and artist Lorenzo Etherington. Randall is the lackadaisical, and somewhat disaster-prone,… Read More ›
Phoenix Comic post Submission Guidelines
The Phoenix Comic – the new weekly comic springing from the ashes of The DFC – has just updated its website and also published its submission guidelines, which we’re running here in full. Launching in January 2012, the team say… Read More ›
Tube Surfing: Weekend Comic events, another Royal Wedding Comic and Phoenix Comic
• The final cover art for another Royal Wedding comic has been revealed. The Geek Files, which also has some interior art, reports Bluewater Productions biography comic, Fame: The Royals, will be released next month in time for the wedding… Read More ›