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• DC Thomson’s Heritage Brands Editor Gordon Tait Talks Buckets, War and Reprints

  By Jeremy Briggs on December 11, 2018

  

  As the new Heritage Brands Editor at DC Thomson, replacing Kirsten Murray who inaugurated the role, Gordon Tait brings a great depth of knowledge and experience to the position that includes editorship of 104 issues of Commando a year plus… Read More ›

• Commando’s commemoration of the Great War Armistice concludes with the final two Weekes’ War stories

  By Jeremy Briggs on November 29, 2018

  

  Commando has been running World War One stories for the duration of November in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the Armistice which stopped the fighting. The highlight of this has been the sequence of five connected stories under the… Read More ›

• British Comics Swap Meet in Fife This Coming Weekend

  By Jeremy Briggs on September 24, 2018

  

  After this last weekend with two of the largest UK comics events, Thought Bubble in Leeds and MCM Scotland in Glasgow, next weekend 29-30 September 2018 one of the smallest UK comics events will be happening in Lochore in Fife…. Read More ›

• Comics @ Borders Book Festival 2018

  By Jeremy Briggs on June 3, 2018

  

  The Borders Book Festival in the Scottish town of Melrose, perhaps best known for its Abbey and the Melrose Sevens rugby tournament, is not a literature festival that normally covers comics in any great depth but that has changed this… Read More ›

• Glenrothes Comic Con returns to the Rothes Halls next Saturday – 9 June 2018

  By Jeremy Briggs on June 2, 2018

  

  Last year Fife Council put on the inaugural Glenrothes Comic Con in the town’s Rothes Halls with artist Gary Erskine as the event’s Creative Director. Gary’s participation ensured that the event was a truly comics flavoured comic con and the organiser’s… Read More ›

• Words From Beyond: Lady Penelope Artist Frank Langford Part 2 – Andersonic Quotes

  By Jeremy Briggs on April 10, 2018 • ( 1 )

  

  In the first part of this Words From Beyond feature on artist Frank Langford we reprinted a rare interview with him from Tardis fanzine dated February 1976. For this second part we begin with a selection of quotes from Andersonic fanzine dated… Read More ›

• Words From Beyond: Lady Penelope Artist Frank Langford Part 1 – Tardis Interview

  By Jeremy Briggs on April 9, 2018 • ( 1 )

  

  Frank Langford is a familiar name when it comes to comics having illustrated fan favourites like Thunderbirds’ Lady Penelope in the 1960s and BBC TV’s Doctor Who in the 1970s, yet when Gordon Blows interviewed him in the third issue… Read More ›

• Comics @ Aye Write!: Glasgow’s Book Festival 2018

  By Jeremy Briggs on February 11, 2018

  

  The Glasgow book festival Aye Write!  has announced its line-up for 2018 and as usual it includes a selection of comics events. These all take place in either the Mitchell Library or the CCA in central Glasgow over the weekend of… Read More ›

• Crowdfunding Spotlight: Steven Ingram’s “Left” on Kickstarter

  By Jeremy Briggs on January 29, 2018

  

  Artist and writer Steven Ingram has been making comics for over 10 years and since 2013 he has been self publishing Left which tells the story of Sam, a girl who is trying to keep away from a cult she was a member of… Read More ›

• Airfix artist Roy Cross “Swift” covers on eBay

  By Jeremy Briggs on December 24, 2017

  

  Four lovely covers for Swift, the younger readers stablemate to Eagle, are currently on offer on eBay (at eye-watering prices). Published in 1962, they’re all by artist Roy Cross who’s perhaps best known for his work illustrating Airfix Model box… Read More ›