British comics-related news, interviews and features
Important news about the next Lakes International Comic Art Festival: if you are a creator, publisher or retailer, the Comic Clock Tower, their version of a comics marketplace and artists’ alley, is now open for applications. From this year, entry… Read More ›
Comic creator Bryan Talbot has announced a new Grandville title in his ongoing Eisner and Hugo Award-nominated series is in the works – and will be published in November. The first critically-acclaimed steampunk detective thriller graphic novel Grandville was published in… Read More ›
Mecha madness hits Prog 1864 this week, as the ABC Warriors return to 2000AD – and there’s a sneak peek on the comic’s official tumblr blog now. Wrapped in a cover by Clint Langley, who also draws the strip written… Read More ›
Digital Giving’s charity fund raising app T-Shirt Booth has confirmed its 20th licensed character, DC Thomson’s “Oor Wullie” has now joined the initiative. His planned inclusion announced last year, fans and T-Shirt Booth customers can now customise their own t-shirts… Read More ›
A new DVD – The Graphic Novel Man: the Comics of Bryan Talbot – is to be released in May, offering a unique insight into the life and work of one of Britain’s pioneering comic creators. Internationally acclaimed, multi-award winning… Read More ›
Unicorn Press is to release anew collection of The Happy Warrior: The Life Story of Sir Winston Churchill, written by Clifford Makins and drawn by Frank Bellamy, in March. The strip was last re-published in the United States only in… Read More ›
The 2013 Edinburgh International Book Festival took place in the Scottish capitol in August this year and for the first time incorporated a major comics thread in its programming – Stripped. Over the course of its near two and a… Read More ›
London’s Orbital Comics is to host a signing by the original Marvel Man – sorry, Miracle Man – artist Garry Leach on Wednesday 15th January from 5.00pm. KIMOTA! With one magic word, a long-forgotten legend lives again! Freelance reporter Michael… Read More ›
Regular readers will recall our past news items for Jim Alexander‘s horror comic GoodCopBadCop, but now the entire series to date has been repackaged by Rough Cut with all-new material ready to be unleashed end of January onto an unsuspecting… Read More ›
Pádraig Ó Méalóid has published a wide-ranging and, possibly, the last ever comics-related interview Alan Moore will ever give, in which he responds to recent criticism of his work online and reveals some forthright views on some members of the… Read More ›
Whether it’s the bad weather on both sides of the Atlantic, or simply a case of rising bile reaching a point at which those who appear to be bearing the brunt of it have decided to say “Enough!”, the past… Read More ›
The artist on the critically-acclaimed Scalped crime series for Vertigo, RM Guera, comes to the Judge Dredd Megazine next week with a one-short Judge Dredd story written by Rob Williams (Cla$$war, Daken) – and Tharg has kindly provided this sneek… Read More ›
Feature by Jonathan Clode When the British government unveiled its plans for the centenary of the Great War last year, many of us shuddered with the expectation it would be a flag waving exercise, glossing over what Harry Patch, the… Read More ›
Thanks to those fine folk at Titan Books, we have TWO copies of their new British comic collection, Garth Ennis Presents Battle Classics, to give away! All you need to do is answer the question below and tell us in… Read More ›
The Temple APA Issue Fifteen is now available to download as a totally free PDF file, containing contributions from the likes of Dave Hailwood, Simon Mackie, Tony Suleri, Malcolm Kirk, (who also provides the cover), and newcomer to the project, Ben… Read More ›
Not content with putting out the regular independent Paragon comic anthology, the ever-busy Davey Candlish has also published a Paragon Annual, featuring work by writers Greg Meldrum, Locust, Peter Salmond, The Emperor, Sean Brink and Davey himself; and artists Archie… Read More ›
DC Thomson has just published the first issues of their fortnightly Commando war comic for 2014 – the first ever to feature free gifts in its long history. “For the first time in its very long history, Commando will giving… Read More ›
Coming soon for 2000AD and Judge Dredd fans – the third edition of a 1000-plus page, unofficial Judge Dredd reference manual. On sale from 13th January 2014 as a PDF eBook, City of Dredd is a gazetteer of Mega-City One,… Read More ›
When Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill followed up their League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century trilogy with 2013’s spinoff Nemo: Heart of Ice, critics hailed it as a return to form, “a throwback to the high adventure of the initial series,”… Read More ›
Knockabout Comics, in partnerhsip with Top Shelf, are to publish the complete The Bojeffries Saga by Alan Moore and Steve Parkhouse in April – a collection that will feature an all-new 24-page story. “Think The Munsters written by Alan Bennett… Read More ›