Romuald Reutimann, the award-winning French artist of the anthropomorphic noir District 14, will be making his first British convention appearance at Lakes International Comic Art Festival next month, thanks to international graphic novel publisher, Humanoids, Inc. Cherbourg-based comics artist Romuald… Read More ›
British Comics – Collections
Star Trek fans urged to back campaign to collect British Star Trek comics
Star Trek comic fans are being urged to support a campaign to get all the rare British Star Trek comics – with all their wonderful idiosyncracies, such as Captain Kirk teaching gorilla men how to play football – collected. In recent years, IDW‘s Library of American Comics imprint… Read More ›
Titan collects Greg Broadmore’s steampunk adventure “Dr Grordbort: Onslaught”
This week sees the release of Titan Comics first collection of Dr Grordbort stories, the creation of master illustrator and yarn-spinner Greg Broadmore. In the Dr Grordbort: Onslaught anthology edition from the retro-sci-fi world of Dr Grordbort, Greg digs deeper into the… Read More ›
Bear Alley Books announces reprint of DC Thomson’s “Arena” strip
Steve Holland at Bear Alley Books has just the next title from the independent publisher will be a reprint of the 1979 series “Arena”, published by DC Thomson. Originally serialised in The Crunch, created by Dave Taylor (not to be… Read More ›
Rollerskating Bears? Oh my!
Glasgow-based cartoonist MJ Wallace, a regular submitter to Team Girl Comic, has a collection of her light-heared and funny comic Rollerskates and Breakfast Dates on sale now. Rollerskates and Breakfast Dates comprises some wonderful autobiographical… Read More ›
Tube Surfing: Comics Unmasked closing soon, How To Make Awesome Comics out this week
• Paul Gravett, co-curator of the Comics Unmasked: Art and Anarchy in the UK exhibition at The British Library reminds us that it closes on Tuesday 19th August. He’s giving two more Co-Curator’s Tours, free with your ticket but… Read More ›
Titan Books releases “Charley’s War” omnibus
Titan Books is to release Charley’s War: A Boy Soldier in the Great War, a terrific omnibus collection of Charley’s War stories on 8th August, which features all-new scans of many pages direct from original art by Joe Colquhoun. While the… Read More ›
32 Years in the Making! Phil Elliott releases “Tales from Gimbley” collection
After 32 years in the making, Phil Elliott, one of the first “alternative” British artists I encountered in the 1980s through the pages of Escape, has just released a complete 184-page collection of his long-running “Tales from Gimbley” comic… Read More ›
In Review: Thirteenth Floor returns in new collection from Hibernia
Hibernia have teamed up with publishing giants Egmont again to bring readers a cracking second Volume of The Thirteenth Floor, the classic story that ran first in Scream comic and then in the new Eagle for many years, written by John Wagner… Read More ›
IDW to publish the complete Corto Maltese in English for the first time
Yes, we admit it – this isn’t a British comics news story. But the announcement from US publisher IDW that they’re to publish the amazing Corto Maltese saga in English for the first time is welcomed here at DTT HQ,… Read More ›
Dine out with Dave Gibbons at San Diego Comic-Con
IDW’s highly anticipated Dave Gibbons Watchmen: Artifact Edition, produced in partnership with DC Entertainment, will make its debut at Comic-Con International Preview night in SanDiego on 23rd July. Dave Gibbons himself will be on hand as IDW’s special guest, signing at the publisher’s booth (#2643)… Read More ›
In Review: Death Sentence (Collection)
By MontyNero (writer) and Mike Dowling (artist) Publisher: Titan Comics On Sale: 22nd July 2014 The Book: SEX, SUPERPOWERS AND SIX MONTHS TO LIVE! Verity: frustrated artist. Weasel: struggling guitarist. Monty: rogue media icon. Three people infected with the… Read More ›
Monty Nero signing Death Sentence in Southampton this Friday, London next week
Monty Nero will be signing the collected hardcover of Death Sentece at the Forbidden Planet Southampton Megastore on Friday 4th July from 6 – 7.00pm, and will be joined by artist Mike Dowling for a signing at Forbidden Planet London… Read More ›
Rebellion releases A.B.C. Warriors – The Mek Files featuring Bisley, Smuzz art
Recently released from from the 2000AD Thrill-vaults in a 304-page pulse-pounding collection, are everyone’s favourite war droids: the Atomic, Bacterial, Chemical-proof A.B.C. Warriors. Beautifully bound in a stunning hardback edition, for the first time, all of the full-colour splash pages and… Read More ›
Titan launches first Dragons: Riders of Berk
Swooping in from DreamWorks Animation’s smash-hit TV series Dragons: Riders of Berk, Titan Comics has just released the first volume of a series of all-new original adventures of Hiccup and Toothless. Dragons: Riders of Berk Volume One is a thrilling all-ages publication… Read More ›
Revolutionary War collection, reviving Marvel UK heroes, on sale today
The collected edition of Marvel Comics “Revolutionary War” limited series, is on sale this week (28th May), a story that revived many of the Marvel UK characters. The series was created by Andy Lanning and Alan Cowsill and features art… Read More ›
Underground Treasures: 18 years, 1,344 pages = Classic Crumb
Specialist publisher Taschen has just published an upmarket English edition of the Robert Crumb Sketchbooks – a special slipcase release priced at £650. This six-book boxed set is based on the original hard-bound, slip-cased, seven-volume series released by the German publisher Zweitausendeins… Read More ›
Alan Hebden and José Ortiz “Tower King” tale from New Eagle collected
From the the 1980s comic New Eagle comes the classic story “The Tower King”, written by Alan Hebden (one of the current writers on Commando, but whose credits also include many strips for 2000AD, including “Meltdown Man” and other comics)… Read More ›
DieGo Comic Publishing launches Kickstarter for next “Rourke” collection
London-based DieGo Comic Publishing has just launched a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign for the second volume of the company’s ongoing series Rourke the Hexbuster. The eagerly awaited Rourke the Hexbuster Volume II continues with a journey from Ireland to Africa, and… Read More ›
Battle Classics – Competition Winners
The winners of copies of Titan Books new British comic collection, Garth Ennis Presents Battle Classics were John Hammond and Paul Eldridge. Congratulations to them both and our thanks to Titan for the prizes. You’ll be pleased to hear that… Read More ›