British comics-related news, interviews and features
Inside this week’s Beano (No. 3904) Minnie the Minx does Strictly Come Dancing! Behind a smashing cover by Nigel Parkinson, Minnie finds herself in the spotlight this week at Strictly Beanotown’s Got Talented Ballroom Dancers! Plus: shiver me timbers! Roger… Read More ›
(UPDATED 29th September): Launching in October and featuring different content each month, This Is is a series of magazines designed to cover topics that are trending and popular with kids right now. Maria Welch, Head of Publishing for Magazines at DC Thomson… Read More ›
I doubt whether there is anyone working in comics, past or present, who has had a career more varied or interesting that that enjoyed by Barrie Tomlinson. Working his way from the bottom up, Barrie went on to become Group… Read More ›
Want a good place to start reading (or re-reading!) 2000AD? Prog 2050 is out today in all good newsagents and comic shops, with all-new thrills and an absolutely stonking line-up to appeal to both loyal and lapsed Squaxx dek Thargo…. Read More ›
Comics creator and stage designer John Stokes will at Gosh! Comics in London, in conversation with Broken Frontier’s Editor-in-Chief Andy Oliver, on Friday 6th October to celebrate the release of the wonderful Marney the Fox from the Treasury of British… Read More ›
Historical figures from Britain’s North East, including suffragette Emily Davison, the Jarrow Marchers and anti-slavery campaigner Frederick Douglass are among the Tyneside radicals whose stories are told in Freedom City Comics, which is to be distributed free around Newcastle and… Read More ›
Discover something new during Libraries Week, a national week-long celebration of libraries from Monday 9th October to Saturday 14th October 2017. Libraries across the country will take the opportunity during Libraries Week to demonstrate the services and activities they offer, including showcasing their… Read More ›
2017 has seen no shortage of comics events great and small across the UK, and there are a few more to come this year, so I thought I’d run a quick listing, which, I hasten to point out, is not… Read More ›
Malta Comic Con – one of the friendliest comic conventions it’s ever been my pleasure to attend – is back in December, the ninth edition to be held on Saturday 2nd (10am-6pm) and Sunday 3rd December (11am-7pm) 2017 at the Mediterranean… Read More ›
The second issue of Hatchette Publishing’s 2000AD: The Ultimate Collection is on sale now in all good newsagents – reprinting of The Ballad of Halo Jones by Alan Moore and Ian Gibson. First appearing in 1984, Halo Jones was an… Read More ›
If you’re at Thought Bubble this weekend, then look out for P M Buchan’s HANGOVER – a new anthology of horror and horror-comedy comic strips created by Buchan and a range of some of the world’s brightest emerging comic creators,… Read More ›
Brand new Commando comics from DC Thomson (Issues 5055-5058) are on sale now in all good newsagents and various digital platforms. Expect Wildcats, Catalinas and Zeroes as heroes dodge Panzers in ruined villages in France, navigate hostile tropical islands, and… Read More ›
A wide-ranging interview over at Licensing.biz with Ian Downes at Start Licensing has hinted at some major plans afoot to celebrate the Beano‘s latest milestone next year. As well as a raft of new tie-in products, a big live celebration… Read More ›
This week, 2000AD has wrapped every current story, in preparation for a fantastic “jump on” Prog 2050 next Wednesday to encourage new readers. This week’s line up, lurking behind a cover by Alex Ronald, is as follows… Favourite strip this… Read More ›
New indie comics publisher Cog Life Comics wages war against the mundane world, as they launch their first comic, Isolation, at this year’s Thought Bubble Sequential Art Festival on 23rd September 2017. Founded in January, Cog Life Comics have been… Read More ›
British comic artist Phil Elliott has decided he can’t keep lugging all his artwork around and is selling everything and anything – including art for Marvel UK’s The Real Ghostbusters comic. There are, of course original artwork from his various… Read More ›
Launching in mid-October is the latest in the Beano Games collection: Beano Cluedo, featuring art by Nigel Parkinson. Adapting the classic game in typical Beano style, in this version – and there have been many others – somone has pranked… Read More ›
An incredible selection of British comic art, including 2000AD pages, art from classic comics such as Eagle and Misty, form the Great British Comic Art Exhibition which opens in Łódź, Poland this weekend. Supported by the British Council in Poland,… Read More ›
Award-winning comics author and artist Bryan Talbot will be signing copies of Grandville: Force Majeure at the launch of an exhibition of art at Orbital Comics in London on Wednesday 15th November (5.30 to 7.30pm) Bryan Talbot’s graphic novel series… Read More ›
By Susie Gander Lettering and Logo by Robin Jones Self published full colour – 42 pages Out: 14th October 2017 Web: www.perrywinklecomic.com “Perry Winkle is your own personal strong, fearless, cancer killing superhero… and let’s face it, not too bad… Read More ›