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News, reviews, interviews and features for print and on-line: Spaceship Away (since October 2005), Bear Alley (since February 2007), downthetubes (since June 2007), and Eagle Times (since October 2008). Plus DC Thomson's The Art Of Ian Kennedy, Titan’s Dan Dare and Johnny Red reprints, Ilex’s War Comics: A Graphic History and 500 Essential Graphic Novels, and Print Media’s The Iron Moon and Strip magazine.
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MULP: Sceptre of The Sun Reaches Its Conclusion
The fifth and final issue of writer Matt Gibbs and artist Sara Dunkerton’s wonderful 1930’s mousey Indiana Jones style tale, MULP: Sceptre of The Sun, will be available at Thought Bubble in Harrogate, over the weekend of 9-10 November 2019,… Read More ›
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“Raid On The Forth” From Maximized Comics
On 16 October 1939 a dozen Junker Ju88 bombers of the Luftwaffe set out from the German island of Sylt to make the first attack of the Second World War on the United Kingdom. Their target was the Royal Navy… Read More ›
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Book Launch: The Art Of Ian Kennedy
The Art Of Ian Kennedy from DC Thomson’s new Heritage Comics brand is a celebration of the 70 years of work that artist Ian Kennedy has provided for the Dundee company. The book was first put on sale to the… Read More ›
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Replacing Eagle: The Comics That Didn’t Make It – Part 4 Another Eureka
This series of articles by Jeremy Briggs covers the dummy comics that were created through the years as potential ‘modern’ versions of the original Eagle comic from the 1950s and 1960s, none of which ever made it to newsagents’ shelves…. Read More ›
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Replacing Eagle: The Comics That Didn’t Make It – Part 3 Eureka
This series of articles by Jeremy Briggs covers the dummy comics that were created through the years as potential ‘modern’ versions of the original Eagle comic from the 1950s and 1960s, none of which ever made it to newsagents’ shelves…. Read More ›
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Replacing Eagle: The Comics That Didn’t Make It – Part 2 Terra Nova
This series of articles by Jeremy Briggs covers the dummy comics that were created through the years as potential ‘modern’ versions of the original Eagle comic from the 1950s and 1960s, none of which ever made it to newsagents’ shelves…. Read More ›
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Replacing Eagle: The Comics That Didn’t Make It – Part 1 Lost Eagle and Lightning
April 1950 saw the publication of the first issue of the weekly boy’s comic, Eagle. It was an immediate success with its mixture of historical, modern-day and futuristic adventure strips with some humour plus factual articles and cutaways, and, unlike… Read More ›
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How Do You Write About Comics That Were Never Published?
I have been writing articles about old British comics for websites, fanzines, magazines and books for over 10 years now and I know that it is best done when you have physical copies of the comics in front of you… Read More ›
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Who was Ian Kennedy’s Space Captain Dave Garratt?
(Originally posted 29 March 2016 – updated 24 February 2019) There is a little known science fiction comics character called Dave Garratt who appeared in at least three of the Collins Boys’ Annuals published by William Collins Sons And Co… Read More ›
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In Review: Commando Presents Ramsey’s Raiders Volume 1
DC Thomson’s Commando digest sized combat picture library has been running continuously since 1961 and in that time it has become the British comic with by far the greatest number of issues ever published with over 5180 under its ammo-belt…. Read More ›