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 ›
British Comics – Collections
Numbercruncher Collection announced
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 ›
Crumb’s Weirdo Years from Knockabout
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 ›
Best of Milligan and McCarthy out in September from Dark Horse
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 ›
Prion release new Commando collections
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 ›
2000AD’s ground-breaking ‘Trifecta’ storyline collected
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 ›
Limited edition “Heros the Spartan” – Sneak Peek
Book Palace Books release their limited edition collection of Heros the Spartan, the work of the late Tom Tully and Frank Bellamy, on 10th August – and we’re delighted to offer you this sneek peek of some of the features… Read More ›
SEQUENTIAL Digital Comics App goes global, adds more new titles
Tokyo-based software developer and publisher Panel Nine, which has offices in London and is run by longtime British comics creator Russell Willis, has just released its digital graphic novel iPad app SEQUENTIAL worldwide. SEQUENTIAL is a storefront app for the iPad… Read More ›
Egmont offers free Roy of the Rovers, Charley’s War digital comics
To celebrate the launch of Egmont’s new Classic Comics website, they’re giving away digital editions of Part One of Charley’s War and Volume 1 of Roy of the Rovers for free for a limited time on the iTunes store for… Read More ›
The DFC Library Regenerates In August
Thursday 1 August 2013 sees the release of six titles from the DFC Library, the book publishing spin-off from The DFC comic, including a strip not previously reprinted, Jamie Smart’s Fish Head Steve! The predecessor to The Phoenix, The DFC… Read More ›
More Big Commando Books From Prion
15th August 2013 will see Prion Books release four new Commando books, each reprinting six stories from the long running war comic, and bring the number of Commando reprint books released by Prion in 2013 to eight. With painted… Read More ›
Thunderbirds Are Go! – To Egmont…
All change for Gerry Anderson collectors
In Review: Ron Turner’s “Space Ace” Volume 1
Out: NowPublisher: John LawrenceOriginally published by Atlas Publishing & Distributing Co. Ltd The Magazine: Four vintage stories from the pages of Lone Star Magazine and Lone Star Annual featuring Space Ace. “Space Ace was a labour of love for Ron,”… Read More ›
Angels over Stalingrad out next month
The final collection of Joe Colquhoun’s work on the seminal aerial combat story Johnny Red, which also featured in Battle Picture Weekly, is out next month. This latest edition includes a feature on Stalingrad by Garth Ennis (The Boys, Preacher,… Read More ›
Judge Dredd-Batman Collection out soon
If you’re a fan of those once occasional cross-company comic crossovers, then you’ll be happy to hear that the epic Batman vs. Judge Dredd stories are still among the most brutal crossovers in comics, 20 years since it was first… Read More ›
Egmont adds Charley’s War to its digital comic collections
Egmont UK’s Classic Comics imprint was created to re-publish the wealth of classic comics in their archive. Four volumes of Roy the Rovers kicked off their e-comic publishing in June this year – and now they have announced the launch… Read More ›
More British Comics collections to come from Titan
Titan Books have confirmed Johnny Red Volume 3: Angels over Stalingrad, the final Joe Colquhoun collection, will be published in January 2013. The volume features a third introduction by comics writer Garth Ennis about Stalingrad. The publisher of the Charley’s… Read More ›
Charley’s War Volume Nine Details
The ninth volume of Titan Books’ Charley’s War series will be released on 26th October 2012. Sub-titled Death from Above, in this explosive new volume of never-before-collected comic strip, including for the first time reproductions of original artwork from the… Read More ›
British ‘My Favorite Martian’ strips to be reprinted
Martian madness on the way!
In Review: The Boss
Mix the pupils of a single school year concept in something like Harry Potter plus the control of agents from a command centre from something like NCIS:Los Angeles with the child investigators of, say, Enid Blyton’s Five Find-Outers and Dog… Read More ›