British comics-related news, interviews and features
Titan Books have confirmed Johnny Red Volume 3: Angels over Stalingrad, the final Joe Colquhoun collection, will be published in January 2013. The volume features a third introduction by comics writer Garth Ennis about Stalingrad. The publisher of the Charley’s… Read More ›
When The Rainbow Orchid creator Garen Ewing began writing and drawing his ligne clair style Adventures Of Julius Chancer in Jason Cobley’s small press BAM! black and white anthology in 2002, he would have hardly have expected that a decade… Read More ›
The Johnny Red strip created by writer Tom Tully and artist Joe Colquhoun began in Battle Picture Weekly and Valiant in January 1977. It told the story of a young disgraced British fighter pilot who took off from a CAM… Read More ›
Here’s the latest intel from Commando HQ on the latest issues on sale now in all good newsagents and online… Commando No 4527 – The Leopard CommanderStory: Alan Hebden Art: Keith Page Cover: Keith Page It sounded almost cute and… Read More ›
The British plastic kit manufacturer Airfix are looking for the loan of original artwork that was used for their box lids during the 1960s and 1970s for an exhibition due to take place at the RAF Museum at Hendon, London… Read More ›
The inaugural half day MegaCon was held in Carlisle’s Richard Rose Central Academy on Saturday 18 August where the hot Saturday afternoon made for a pleasant experience outside as well as inside the venue. For most attendees the first experience… Read More ›
OFF LIFE, described by its creators as the UK’s only street press comic magazine, is to launch this autumn – and has just launched a crowd funding campaign to back the first issue. Published bi-monthly, distributed free in galleries, coffee… Read More ›
In a companion podcast to last week’s episode, Alex Fitch continues his conversation with writer Richard Starkings and artist Ian Churchill about Elephantmen
The ninth volume of Titan Books’ Charley’s War series will be released on 26th October 2012. Sub-titled Death from Above, in this explosive new volume of never-before-collected comic strip, including for the first time reproductions of original artwork from the… Read More ›
The folk at Com.X have begun to ramp up publicity for Babble, an original graphic novel by Lee Robson and Bryan Coyle, due to be published in later this year. Carrie Hartnoll is a girl lost in a life going… Read More ›
Jim Alexander’s publishing debut came as writer of Calhab Justice for Judge Dredd Megazine. He then went on to script Judge Dredd, Pandora and O’Rork. He has also written for DC (Birds of Prey, Batman 80-Page Giant), Marvel (Marvel Milestones)… Read More ›
For more than 15 years, Russian rogue Nikolai Dante has fought, thieved and loved his way through life in the 27th Century. 2000AD has always bred a different kind of hero and brought the world a different way of telling… Read More ›
Bet English school kids will be gnashing their teeth… over on the Wacky Comics blog, George Shiers reports DC Thomson is working with Scottish Business in the Community and will be giving away 370,000 free Beano comics to every single… Read More ›
National newspaper The Guardian is continued its coverage of British comics — specifically, the future of The Dandy — throughout last week, with key writer Jacqueline Rayner stepping up to champion the lost world of girls comics like Misty and… Read More ›
Jeremy Briggs tracks coverage of The Dandy’s impending physical demise
Squeezing in a trio of radio appearances on 104.4 FM and elsewhere before Resonance FM runs a three week repeat schedule while the studio is refurbished, Alex Fitch is covering a variety of subjects over the weekend… Clear Spot: Out… Read More ›
The news of The Dandy‘s move to digital publication has prompted a huge flurry of news stories across various news media outlets. While most simply parrotted the official announcement made by DC Thomson about their plans (some playing up claims… Read More ›
Wicked Comics the organisers of the annual Malta Comic Convention and the promoters of comic culture world wide, has announced British comic creator Mike Carey as their first guest to the forthcoming Malta Comic Con which this year is going… Read More ›
DC Thomson have just tweeted their official statement regarding the fate of The Dandy – and as expected for weeks, it’s not good news for fans of the print edition, with the comic ending its physical existence (bar annuals)… Read More ›
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