Dennis the Menace, Daleks and Darth Vader rub shoulders with other memorable magazine covers in a new poll celebrating 100 years of the Professional Publishers Association – Britain’s trade organisation representing more than 200 publishing-related companies. The PPA Cover of… Read More ›
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Steampunk Radio with Panel Borders
Panel Borders: Steampunk Geniuses Continuing a month of shows looking at webcomics, Alex Fitch talks to the creators of a popular online steampunk strip that combines Victoriana, mad scientists, fantasy and strong female characters. Phil and Kaja Foglio discuss the… Read More ›
Titan Comics announces IT CAME! from Dan Boultwood
Titan Comics releases the brand-new creator-owned series, IT CAME! – a four-issue, 1950s B-movie style mini-series by Dan Boultwood – in August. Judging from the sneek peek trailer (created by Angie Thomas) which has just been released, fans of Mystery… Read More ›
Soaring Penguin Press to publish Régis Loisel’s “Peter Pan”
Indie publisher Soaring Penguin Press is to publish Régis Loisel’s epic series, Peter Pan for the first time in English, in one omnibus edition, later this year – and has launched an Indiegogo campaign to support publication. The 372-page, full… Read More ›
Neil Gaiman to give keynote at ‘Digital Minds’ conference
Image via London Book Fair The London Book Fair has announced that comic writer and author Neil Gaiman will give the opening keynote speech at the fifth Digital Minds Conference in London on Sunday 14th April. Neil is internationally recognised… Read More ›
Dead Space Liberation a top seller for Titan Books
Titan Books new graphic novel, Dead Space: Liberation hit The New York Times Best-Sellers List at Number 3 in the Hardcover Graphic Books category this week. Following the events of the smash video game hit Dead Space 2, the new… Read More ›
Vengeance, Hollywood heroes and Spoons? It’s your latest Commandos!
The latest issues of war comic Commando are on sale now in all good newsagents, and digitally via iTunes for iPad and iPhone. Here’s the rundown – and you can now also read a preview of each issue and “try… Read More ›
Lee Sullivan continues work on ‘Minister of Chance’
Lee Sullivan’s “The Horseman” poster for The Minister of Chance. © Minister of Chance Comic artist Lee Sullivan, whose latest published comics work is Doctor Who: Prisoners of Time #2 from IDW (read our interview), has dropped us a line… Read More ›
Radio interviews with Martin Rowson and Mike Carey
Panel Borders: Updating the classics Concluding a month of shows looking at the connections between comics and books, Alex Fitch talks to a pair of authors who have used graphic novels and comics to update classic literature. Mike Carey discusses his… Read More ›
Aces Weekly heads for the London SuperCon
Progenitor by Phil Hester & John McCrea, which featured in Aces Weekly Volume 1 Aces Weekly – www.acesweekly.co.uk – the exclusively digital weekly comic art magazine that’s packed with talent from around the globe – is just one of many… Read More ›
Radio show with David Hine, Mark Stafford and Catherine Anyango
Panel Borders: Darkness and inhumanity in literature Continuing our month of shows about comics and literature, Alex Fitch talks to a trio of graphic novelists about adapting classic 19th century novels as sequential art. In a panel discussion recorded at… Read More ›
Will Simpson art in focus at W5, Belfast
Will Simpson at the W5. Photo: W5 Centre The work of Will Simpson is the focus of an exhibition at Belfast’s W5 Centre until 28th April 2013, highlighting the work of this internationally-known artist, whose career began in comic strip… Read More ›
“Carol Day” artist David Wright features in illustrators Issue 2
The latest issue of illustrators, the heavily illustrated art quarterly celebrating the finest European illustration of the 20th Century, is now available. illustrators Issue 2 features two major articles on the artwork of David Wright – Peter Richardson looks at Wright’s elegant, painted pin-up… Read More ›
Commando goes Kindle, new print issues on sale now
Along with details of the latest print editions of DC Thomson’s Commando war comic comes news that the title has pushed further into the digital sphere – with a number of one-off issues released for Amazon’s Kindle device. “Operation Kindle… Read More ›
2000AD announces 2013 graphic album range
2012 was a truly zarjaz year for 2000AD – and the next 12 months looks set to be even better with the announcement of their graphic novel collections schedule for the UK and Ireland. With 19 titles collecting stories of… Read More ›
Dan Dare On The Radio: A Thrilling Serial
The spaceman character of Dan Dare was introduced to British comics readers in the first issue of Eagle comic in April 1950 and both he and the comic were an immediate success. In July 1951 the strip was transferred to… Read More ›
IDW offers limited edition Bolland Dredd collection
IDW Limited has announced the launch of Judge Dredd: The Complete Brian Bolland, the first of a series of deluxe hardcover editions as part of their of the Judge Dredd reprint program. Featuring signatures from top Judge Dredd talent and… Read More ›
Dead lie Waiting for Midlands Comic Con!
From a metal band’s new comic to the galaxy’s most bad ass bounty hunter to two of the best new games to come out of Japan, this Saturday’s MCM Midlands Comic Con at Telford International Centre comes jam-packed with geeky… Read More ›
Judge Dredd seeks the Judge Child in new collection
2000AD continues its popular run of pocket-sized black-and-white reprints of Judge Dredd classics with The Judge Child – as the lawman leaves Earth on an intergalactic mission to save Mega-City One! When Justice Department’s oldest psychic has a terrifying vision… Read More ›
Striker creator Pete Nash still hopes for TV series
Pete Nash, creator of the long-running football strip Striker for The Sun newspaper, still has hopes the strip will jump from the printed page to TV. Answering fans questions on the StrikerWorld forum (membership required to view), Pete, who successfully… Read More ›