Starting a month of shows about French comics or bande dessinée, Alex Fitch talks to cartoonist Régis Loisel about his epic graphic novel adaptation of and prequel to J.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan, published in the UK by Soaring Penguin Press…. Read More ›
If you’ve read a British comic book in the last few decades, the chances are you’ve read a story written or edited by Pat Mills. Learning his craft with DC Thomson in Dundee, Pat would go on to create Battle… Read More ›
Reviewed by Steve Earles By Pat Mills and Joe ColquhounPublisher: Titan BooksOut: Now The Book: In the final explosive volume of never-before-collected comic strip, including for the first time reproductions of strip pages from Joe Colquhoun’s original artwork, we finally… Read More ›
I had a quick phone call with ace artist John Ridgway today, discussing colouring comics, Commando and one of our favourite topics, favourite comic creators, which today included the great pulp magazine artist Alden MacWiliams (whose credits included Twin Earths,… Read More ›
In an exciting development for fans of shows such as Thunderbirds and Captain Scarlet, word breaks this morning that the successful Kickstarter project, Gerry Anderson’s Gemini Force One, is to be published by Gollancz in 2014 and Orion Children’s Books… Read More ›
Admittedly, this isn’t actually British comic news – but bear with me, there is a British connection! A few years ago I wrote a number of comic strips for an Italian publisher, CJL, who were seeking to use comics as… Read More ›
Bloomsbury Publishing released Neil Cohn‘s The Visual Language of Comics, an academic work offering an introduction to the structure and cognition of Sequential Images last December, but it slipped under our radar in the inevitable pre-Christmas madness. Reviews for the… Read More ›
‘Frank Bellamy’s Heros the Spartan’. Stories by Tom Tully Illustrated by Frank Bellamy Edited and designed by Peter Richardson Published by The Book Palace at £95.00 Hardback 272 pages, with 222 in full colour. Limited edition of 600 copies. Also… Read More ›
British publisher SelfMadeHero has confirmed its publishing plans for the first few months of 2014. They include a biography of painter Vincent van Gogh by Dutch artist Barbara Stok, a political satire set during the Iraq War by Abel Lanzac… Read More ›
Reed Exhibitions has announced that The London Book Fair 2014 – which will again include a comics pavilion this year – will be the last to take place in its current location, Earls Court. From 2015, The London Book Fair… Read More ›
Comic creator Bryan Talbot has announced a new Grandville title in his ongoing Eisner and Hugo Award-nominated series is in the works – and will be published in November. The first critically-acclaimed steampunk detective thriller graphic novel Grandville was published in… Read More ›
Unicorn Press is to release anew collection of The Happy Warrior: The Life Story of Sir Winston Churchill, written by Clifford Makins and drawn by Frank Bellamy, in March. The strip was last re-published in the United States only in… Read More ›
Coming soon for 2000AD and Judge Dredd fans – the third edition of a 1000-plus page, unofficial Judge Dredd reference manual. On sale from 13th January 2014 as a PDF eBook, City of Dredd is a gazetteer of Mega-City One,… Read More ›
When Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill followed up their League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century trilogy with 2013’s spinoff Nemo: Heart of Ice, critics hailed it as a return to form, “a throwback to the high adventure of the initial series,”… Read More ›
Knockabout Comics, in partnerhsip with Top Shelf, are to publish the complete The Bojeffries Saga by Alan Moore and Steve Parkhouse in April – a collection that will feature an all-new 24-page story. “Think The Munsters written by Alan Bennett… Read More ›
Released last year, Playing Out by Jim Medway is a 48-page story about Connor, Kieran and Jamal mooching around Manchester City Centre – but these youths are cats portrayed as humans. downthetubes contributor Matt Badham has just re-plugged the title,… Read More ›
(With thanks to Owen Michael Johnson): Who On Earth Was Thaddeus Mist?, a terrific anthology book published by AccentUK to much praise last year, is now available on Amazon. At the funeral of her mysterious and eccentric husband, widow Zelda… Read More ›
Two top critics have made Paul Gravett‘s Comics Art their top choices of 2013, leaving the acclaimed comic author “really chuffed”. In The Observer, Rachel Cooke has picked Comics Art as one of her Graphic Books of The Year: “Those… Read More ›
DC Thomson is celebrating a busy year for The Beano‘s Dennis the Menace and Gnasher property as Penguin joins a raft of licensees with a planned range of children’s books and Golden Bear announces new toys. The new range of… Read More ›
No, it’s not a dream! Not a hoax! Not an Imaginary story! Gary Spencer Millidge’s acclaimed comic book series Strangehaven will return in May 2014 – after an eight year hiatus. New episodes, written and drawn by Millidge will appear… Read More ›