Comics International editor Mike Conroy is one of many contributors to a Flash Gordon documentary being screened on the the UK Sci-Fi Channel tonight (Monday 25 February) at 8.00pm. Scheduled to air ahead of the series pilot, the programme provides… Read More ›
British Comics – Newspaper Strips
Go Monkey Nuts!
Following up on our earlier post about the new DFC comic, just to note the Etherington Brothers Monkey Nuts comic makes its debut in The Guardian this coming Saturday (23rd February). “After a long(ish) period of enforced silence we are… Read More ›
More Carol Day Online, Appeal for Art
The Carol Day website devoted to the long-running Daily Mail newspaper strip has just been updated with some great new material, including two complete stories, including the last one completed by series creator David Wright. Also on offer is new… Read More ›
Doonesburyland
On Thursday morning this week (10th Jan) Radio 4 (11:30am-noon) will be broadcasting Doonesburyland. Joe Queenan conducts a rare interview with Gary Trudeau, creator of the Doonesbury cartoon strip and in many ways the most high profile chronicler of the… Read More ›
In Memoriam: Manny Curtis, Cartoonist and War Veteran
David Lloyd marks the passing of a groundbreaking comic creator
Jeff Hawke – Lunar 10
The Jeff Hawke Club have released their Cosmos special, Lunar 10. This 192 page softcover book collects 10 different complete Jeff Hawke stories set on the Moon. It includes Time Out Of Mind, originally published in the Daily Express in… Read More ›
New Issue of Jeff Hawke: Cosmos Released
(with thanks to Richard Sheaf and William Rudling): The new issue of the Jeff Hawke fan magazine has just been published and includes two complete stories from the Daily Express — “The Gamesman” and “Sitting Tenants”. Every issue of Cosmos… Read More ›
US Newspaper polls readers on cartoon choice
Can’t see the the UK Guardian ever doing this: or getting as much feedback — some 5000 readers replied – on a newspaper’s plans to alter its comic strip section. www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/entertainment/comics/15254126.htm Strips to vote on here: www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/entertainment/comics/15244087.htm