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• Bank Holiday Reading: The 1976 Frankie Stein Holiday Special

  By Richard Sheaf on April 30, 2017

  

  Holiday Specials may be few and far between these days when it comes to British comics – it’s simply too expensive or publishers to “sell in” one shots, sadly. But this doesn’t mean you can’t dip into your collection and… Read More ›

• In Review: The Art of Reginald Heade

  By Richard Sheaf on March 4, 2017 • ( 2 )

  

  By Stephen James Walker Published by Telos Given the all-ages appeal of downthetubes, how best to review The Art of Reginald Heade? This artist’s impossible women with their hourglass figures and dresses so flimsy that they defy disbelief should be… Read More ›

• Photo Review: The BEYOND 2000AD Exhibition at London’s Orbital Comics

  By Richard Sheaf on February 23, 2017

  

    London’s Orbital Comics – the UK’s one and only Eisner Award-winning comic shop – is currently hosting what sounds like it could be an extremely dull and pretentious look at 2000AD. “Beyond 2000AD – The Broader Cultural Impact of… Read More ›

• Mrs Peel, we’re needed: “The Avengers” comic strips collected at last

  By Richard Sheaf on December 3, 2016

  

  Just released by audio drama creators Big Finish to complement their new, official The Avengers – Steed & Mrs Peel series starring Julian Wadham and Olivia Poulet is a collection of eight strips sourced from Diana comic in the 1960s…. Read More ›

• In Review: Rok of the Reds #4

  By Richard Sheaf on November 23, 2016 • ( 2 )

  

  Written by John Wagner and Alan Grant Art by Dan Cornwell Colour by Abigail Bulmer Lettered by Jim Campbell Publisher: BHP Comics Industry legends John Wagner and Alan Grant (Judge Dredd, Strontium Dog, Judgement on Gotham, A History of Violence) team… Read More ›

• In Pictures: “The Mighty One”, former 2000AD editor Steve MacManus and friends at Orbital Comics

  By Richard Sheaf on September 11, 2016

  

  Just before the official release of The Mighty One: My Life Inside the Nerve Centre, former 2000AD editor Steve MacManus attended a launch event for this fascinating insight into the early days of the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic at London’s award-winning… Read More ›

• By Gum! What a Grand Comics Exhibition at Woking’s Lightbox

  By Richard Sheaf on August 14, 2016

  

  Tuesday 9th August saw the official launch of “The Story of British Comics So Far: Cor! By Gum! Zarjaz!” at the Lightbox in Woking, which runs until December. Co-curators Paul Gravett and Hamish MacGillivray  gave an insight into the genesis of the… Read More ›

• The Story of British Comics So Far opens at Woking’s Lightbox

  By Richard Sheaf on August 7, 2016

  

  Yesterday saw a new exhibition open at The Lightbox gallery and museum, Woking that we highlighted earlier this year, which will take visitors on an interactive journey through the past, present and future of sequential art. The Story of British… Read More ›

• British Comics Recalled: Grange Hill

  By Richard Sheaf on May 28, 2015

  

    The recently announced tragic death of former child actor Terry Sue-Patt, perhaps best known as the football-obsessed Benny Green in the Phil Redmond-created BBC TV school drama Grange Hill, sent me to the back of the archive cupboard to have the… Read More ›

• British Comics Recalled: Tower Magazines “Action Man”

  By Richard Sheaf on May 27, 2015

  

  I used to love Action Man as a kid – and John Freeman’s post last week about the toys being sold by Vectis sent me to the back of the cupboard to dig out my copies of the comic so you could… Read More ›

• Ron Turner: The Harrier Comics Collections

  By Richard Sheaf on May 7, 2015

  

  While many of us are enjoying John Lawrence’s Space Ace magazine (Volume Four is on sale now), this isn’t the first time that he has re-printed classic Ron Turner material. Below is a gallery of titles published by Harrier Comics in the… Read More ›

• Yesterday’s Tomorrow: Dan Dare at the British Interplanetary Society

  By Richard Sheaf on April 26, 2015 • ( 1 )

  

    To co-incide with the 65th anniversary of seminal British picture strip weekly, Eagle, the British Interplanetary Society held a one day conference on Tuesday 14th April 2015 entitled ‘Yesterday’s Tomorrow’. Richard Sheaf reports… A packed programme introduced by the… Read More ›

• Dandy 75: Artists Signing At The ABC Show

  By Richard Sheaf on December 3, 2012

  

  The publication of the last ever print Dandy marked by London signing

• Past Perfect #54

  By Richard Sheaf on July 14, 2012

  

  A look at Paul Ware’s Past Perfect magazine, by Richard Sheaf

• 75 years of The Dandy exhibition

  By Richard Sheaf on July 3, 2012

  

  The Cartoon Museum will be holding an exhibition of all all things Dandy related this autumn