British comics-related news, interviews and features
Glasgow’s Sparkle Horse was the venue for the launch of not one but two space-themed comics recently – The Amateur Astronomer’s Journal by Neil Slorance and Bunny behind the Moon by Gill Hatcher. Bunny Behind the Moon by Glasgow-based Gill… Read More ›
As the world holds its breath as he battles illness, UK distributors Gazelle have re-promoted the authorised Nelson Mandela comic. Nelson Mandela was called a terrorist, forced into hiding, captured, threatened with the death penalty and eventually thrown into jail… Read More ›
A number of Italian news sites such as lospaziobianco.it and English media site Bleeding Cool are reporting the major European publisher Panini Modena may be up for sale. Citing a story in Il Mondo magazine (not available online but appearing… Read More ›
Print Media, the Bosnian publishers of STRIP: The Adventure Comics Magazine, have just released the following statement about the non appearance of the second issue. Issue 1 went on sale in UK newsagents in May, but the second issue has… Read More ›
The newly-formed Retro Comics Group – the brainchild of Wales-based comic creator Simon Williams – has managed to snag the legendary TV/Hollywood star David Hasselhoff as a special guest star for the comic title Retro Tales. The Hoff will make… Read More ›
Titan Comics will officially launch its range of titles – which include A1, Carl Critchlow’s Thrud the Barbarian and Numbercruncher – at San Diego Comic Con with brand-new comics, brand-new collections and exciting panels and signings. Titan Comics, a new… Read More ›
There’s less than a week to go before pre-orders open for the first ever complete reprint of Grant Morrison and Steve Yeowell’s superhero 2000AD series Zenith. The limited edition hardback book will only be available from the 2000AD online shop… Read More ›
The latest Digital Dandy (Issue 12) is available now – stuffed full of Daft, Dramatic and Different comic strips. This issue features Bananaman and Appleman in a spectacular duel of fruity fencing, as well as nostril-numbing terror in Hyde and… Read More ›
(With thanks to George Shiers over on Wacky Comics): A comic blog dedicated to the classic British humour comic Oink! was launched earlier in the year, covering each individual issue of the title to the day that it went on… Read More ›
It’s all change over at The Beano, as the title’s monthly companion, BeanoMAX, bows out on Issue 79, on sale now in all good newsagents. The magazine will be replaced by a 32-page comic, the 100% Official Dennis the Menace… Read More ›
Cartoonist Tom Gauld has followed up his widely praised graphic novel Goliath with a collection of cartoons made for The Guardian newspaper. Over the past eight years, Gauld has produced his weekly You’re All Just Jealous of My Jetpack cartoon… Read More ›
Following up on the launch of a revamped website and its first interactive issue earlier this year, Egmont UK is extending the TOXIC Magazine brand into entertainment apps, aimed, I assume, and helping promote the title. (They're certainly good fun!)… Read More ›
Two of the most famous volumes of 2000AD’s Neolithic barbarian, Sláine, created by Pat Mills, are now available again in brand new editions for the UK.
The last batch of four Commandos introduced the new gatefold back covers with their unobstructed cover artwork and the current batch of four now on sale continues the changes with the new stories now given a fresh typeface and the… Read More ›
Issue Five of the UK's only street press comic, OFF LIFE, is out in print and online today. A free street press magazine, distributed in bars, galleries and universities across Bristol and London, it has gained it some 20,000 readers,… Read More ›
Hannah Eaton's graphic novel Naming Monsters, published by Myriad Editions, has just gone on sale Described by Myriad as an adult Where the Wild Things Are, Naming Monsters is a warm, funny, intriguing and sexually explicit take on what happens… Read More ›
Dutch writer and artist Typex is giving a talk about his biographical graphic novel of the great master, Rembrandt (recently published by independent UK publisher SelfMadeHero) at Waterstones Covent Garden on Thursday 20th June. The novel, which depicts the artist’s… Read More ›
Comic writer and film producer Mark Millar has been awarded an MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List. He’s one of five people awarded for services to literature and drama in the list and says he is starting to feel… Read More ›
Following on from the huge success of It’s… and Girls Love, Signature Publishing (publishers of titles such as Dinomite! and My Little Pony) has just launched Let’s Learn – a new magazine that takes its winning formula into the pre-school sector…. Read More ›
This week’s edition of theLondon listings magazine Time Out features an exclusive The Beano pull-out, sponsored by MasterCard. The pullout celebrates 75 years of The Beano and ties in with the Southbank Centre Festival of Neighbourhood, which is sponsored by MasterCard,… Read More ›