After the five albums of the Aldebaran sequence followed by the five albums of the Betelgeuse sequence, the science fiction tales of the Worlds Of Aldebaran, written and illustrated by Leo (Luiz Eduardo de Oliveira), continue with the first episode… Read More ›
British Comics
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Cam Kennedy’s Commandos
Scottish artist Cam Kennedy has had a long and distinguished career in comics having drawn British characters as well known as Judge Dredd and Rogue Trooper while also covering Star Wars for Dark Horse and The Punisher for Marvel in… Read More ›
In Review: Commando 4439 – Big Mike
As Commando continues its 50th anniversary year, and its countdown to the reissue of number 1 in December, the current batch of Commandos reprints Big Mike, a story from 40 years ago and one of the earliest published comic strips… Read More ›
Commando: Two Exhibitions & Four New Issues
As the 50th anniversary year of the Eagle Award winning Commando continues apace, there are currently two different free Commando art exhibitions on in the UK. Dundee University has the Commando Battlelines exhibition while London’s National Army Museum has the… Read More ›
In Review: Lucky Luke – The Daltons’ Escape
Cinebook reaches their thirtieth Lucky Luke book with the first English translation of The Dalton’s Escape written by Rene Goscinny and illustrated by Morris. Hearing that Lucky Luke is close to their jail, Joe Dalton convinces the three other Dalton’s… Read More ›
STRIP Magazine launch set for 2nd November
Read Read Strip Magazine Issue Zero Read Strip Magazine Issue 1 – Sneak Preview STRIP Magazine Issue 1 will now be on sale in UK comic shops from 2nd November. Diamond Comics have confirmed delivery of the delayed shipment from… Read More ›
2000AD launches ‘Creator Interviews’ ebook
2000AD has launched its first ebook collection of interviews with some of the biggest names in the comic book industry. This first collection includes a three-part interview with the co-creator of Judge Dredd, Carlos Ezquerra, as well as pieces on… Read More ›
Dundee Commando exhibition open
A quick reminder about the Commando exhibition in Dundee Jeremy Briggs gave an advance plug for last month, which has now opened, in advance of Dundee Comics Day on 30th October. Marking the 50th anniversary of Commando, It’s in the… Read More ›
Charley takes on Hitler in latest collection of classic war comic
Charley’s War: Hitler’s Youth, the eighth volume of the classic World War One comic strip by Pat Mills and Joe Colquhoun, first published in Battle Picture Weekly, is now on sale from Titan Books, although the official publication date is… Read More ›
In Review: XIII – For Maria
Who is XIII? Book 1 – Mr Alan Smith? Books 2&3 – Captain Steve Rowland? Book 4 – Corporal Ross Tanner? Book 5 – Agent Jason Fly? Books 6 & 7 – Writer John Fleming? Book 8 – Agent Jason… Read More ›
In Review: Super Animal Adventure Squad
The most junior of the third batch of DFC Library titles is Super Animal Adventure Squad written and illustrated by James Turner. Agent K (a cat), Agent Irwin (a pelican), Agent Rex (an iguana), Agent Beesley (a rather posh bee)… Read More ›
In Review: Blake And Mortimer – The Gondwana Shrine
The Gondwana Shrine is the fourth of the new adventures of Blake And Mortimer by writer Yves Sente and artist André Juillard, originally published in French in 2008 and based on the original characters created by E.P. Jacobs. Following on… Read More ›
Demoncon2 finalises line up with plenty of web comic creators
(With thanks to The Grinning Man, Maidstone): The line up for Demoncon2, taking place in Maidstone in November, is now pretty much finalised and includes comic creators such as Garen Ewing and Dan Boultwood on the guest list, along with… Read More ›
In Review: Baggage
The DFC Library returns with the first of its third tranche of titles, and the first one that wasn’t in the weekly DFC – Baggage by writer Robin Etherington and artist Lorenzo Etherington. Randall is the lackadaisical, and somewhat disaster-prone,… Read More ›
In Review: Thorgal – The Sun Sword
Writer Jean Van Hamme and artist Grzegorz Rosinski return to their sword and sorcery adventurer in the tenth Thorgal book to be published in English by Cinebook, The Sun Sword. Having saved a young girl from a bear, a girl… Read More ›
Commandos race into danger
The latest issues of Commando are on sale in all ggod newsagents now, with this batch including a pair of books written by Eric Hebden and another by his son Alan – a first for the war comic perhaps. Commando… Read More ›
Commando Raids Estonia
Commando may be best known for its one-off stories but it has run quite a few series over the years with recurring characters and situations. Perhaps the best known, mainly due to the sheer number of issues they have been… Read More ›
Latest Issue Of Eagle Times Now Available (Volume 24, Number Three)
Leslie Ashwell Wood was Eagle’s premier cutaway artist providing over 600 different painted cutaways for the weekly comic between 1950 and 1969. While some of these paintings have been reused in the recent Eagle reprint books published by Orion to… Read More ›
Steve Moore’s Somnium novel out in November
Comic creator Steve Moore — creator of such wonderful characters as Abslom Daak, Dalek Killer and Axel Pressbutton — has an intriguing new novel on the way from Somnium Press, with Strange Attractor Press. A prominent inclusion in Iain Sinclair’s 2006… Read More ›
Striker site down – but no early bath for the strip, says creator
Football comics seem to be getting it in the neck this month – after the demise of the print edition of Comic Football (due to return online later this year), fans have alerted us to say that the official… Read More ›