Two years in the making, the Daleks’ Master Plan serialised comic strip on the Kasterborous web site proved incredibly popular during the summer months, as a free 50th anniversary gift. Editor, illustrator and storyboard artist Rick Lundeen did a superb… Read More ›
Under licence from DC Thomson, auction site Phil’s Comics is offering a limited edition full colour hardback book, The Dandy and The Beano – Classic Christmas Comic Covers 1937-1969. The nook – limited to a 1000 print run – will be… Read More ›
Remember how Google Scholar used to have “resting on the shoulder’s of giants” as their strapline? By pure accident, I’m sitting on the same bench with them! I’m in a published book – Frank Bellamy’s Heros the Spartan, out now… Read More ›
Creators: Various, including artists Frank Bellamy, Frank Hampson, Eric Eden, John Cooper and Graham Bleathman Publisher: Egmont Classic Comics Out: Now The Book: Blast off on a thrilling adventure through Thunderbirds comic history! Discover the iconic comic strips that captured… Read More ›
Lowestoft-based comic book artist Jon Haward has worked on everything from Judge Dredd to Spider-Man. In this chat with Matt Badham, however, the focus is mostly on Tales of the Buddha (Before He Got Enlightened), recently released by Renegade Entertainment,… Read More ›
Titan Comics has revealed a host of new wave of titles by a host of stellar writers and artists at New York Comic Con 2013 that will be released next year, including titles from established comics stars Rob Williams, D’Israeli,… Read More ›
Charley’s War Volume 10: The End, published by Titan Books, goes on sale in all good book and comic shops on 25th October 2013, wrapping Charley’s World War One adventures and bringing the current the current collection of the comic… Read More ›
Knockabout Comics, publishers of Gilbert Shelton, Hunt Emerson and Alan Moore, amongst others, and SEQUENTIAL, the digital graphic novel iPad app, have announced the forthcoming release of Neil Gaiman’s Lost Tales, a special, free, digital collection of Neil Gaiman’s ‘lost’… Read More ›
Huw J Davies-Matsumura has announced a further limited edition Garth release for this weekend’s upcoming London Film and Comic Con – a limited signed convention edition of a collection of his Garth strip “The Gold of Ragnarock”, which was initially… Read More ›
Carl Critchlow’s Thrud The Barbarian is back – and Titan Comics think they’ve got him. We all know that is a vain hope given what a dangerous clod this character is, don’t we readers? Since his first appearances in White… Read More ›
Egmont Classic Comics have very kindly sent over more information on their new Thunderbirds Comic Collection, set for release on 10th October, which will feature both early Thunderbirds strips and feature pages from their own 1990s Thunderbirds comic, including cutaways… Read More ›
Rebellion has a very special collection of John Wagner and Arthur Ranson’s creator-owned crime thriller Button Man out in the US and Canada next week. Button Man, first published in 2000AD, is deservedly regarded as one of the greatest strips ever… Read More ›
US publisher Gemstone reports the second book in the new Overstreet “How To” series is off to the printer. The Overstreet Guide To Collecting Comic & Animation Art, with a Silver Surfer #1 recreation cover by renowned painter Joe Jusko,… Read More ›
Dark Horse Comics have very kindly sent us some preview pages from Best of Milligan and McCarthy – a deluxe collection of hard-to-find gems from Peter Milligan (Hellblazer, X-Statix) and Brendan McCarthy (Judge Dredd, The Zaucer of Zilk), due for… Read More ›
Look up in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s a blird! It’s a pane! It’s a blane! It’s a plird! It’s a bane! Oh… actually, it seems to be some sort of flying, anthropomorphic phacochoerus aethiopicus, wearing… Read More ›
Titan Comics are to publish a Numbercruncher collection in December, collecting the entire much-praised series so far. Mesmerisingly written by the superb Si Spurrier (X-Men: Legacy, Crossed: Wish You Where Here) with gorgeous art from PJ Holden (2000 AD) and colourist Jordie Bellaire (Captain Marvel, Rocketeers,… Read More ›
Weirdo was a magazine-sized comics anthology created by Robert Crumb in 1981, which ran for 28 issues. It served as a “low art” counterpoint to its contemporary highbrow Raw. Early issues of Weirdo reflect Crumb’s interests at the time –… Read More ›
One of comics’ most fruitful collaborations is to get its due in Best of Milligan and McCarthy – a deluxe collection of hard-to-find gems from Peter Milligan (Hellblazer, X-Statix) and Brendan McCarthy (Judge Dredd, The Zaucer of Zilk). There is… Read More ›
On sale next week are four new collections of Commando naval stories from Prion, an imprint of Carlton Books. These mid-format compilations – featuring work by Commando veterans such as writers Alan Hebden and R.A. Montague and artists Gordon Livingstone,… Read More ›
Last year, 2000AD readers suddenly realised that three seemingly unconnected stories by three of the legendary title’s top writers were actually part of the massive multi-part crossover set in the world of Judge Dredd. It was the kind of crossover… Read More ›