Not much warning but if anyone is within travelling distance of Dundee on Wednesday 8 October then Dr Chris Murray will be giving a talk to the Abertay Historical Society on The Forgotten Heroes Of Beanotown. Dr Murray was the… Read More ›
British Comics
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Markosias’s new Starship Troopers Title
AAM/Markosia, British publishers of the hit series Kong: King of Skull Island, Starship Troopers and the critically acclaimed The Boy Who Made Silence, have announced the release of a Starship Troopers one-shot this coming December, War Stories: Tasch, scripted by… Read More ›
Transformers Animated #1 Heads for Stores
On sale later this month is Transformers Animated #1 from Titan, the company’s new tie-in with the latest animated incarnation of the phenomonally successful robots-in-disguise toy franchise. The first issue, on sale from 23 October, includes ‘Sideswiped’, one of two… Read More ›
Tube Surfing: DC Thomson Style
Ian Kennedy may be the pre-eminent Commando cover artist over the course of the title’s long history but it had been running for nine years by the time he did his first cover. Before that Ken Barr was the standout… Read More ›
Futurequake 11: On Sale Now
(via David Hailwood’s new blog): The latest issue of the twice Eagle Award nominated Futurequake will be available to buy at the Birmingham International Comic Show this weekend. Preview images can be viewed on the messageboard of the comic’s website… Read More ›
Small Press Week at FPI
Joe Grodon writes to tells us Richard Bruton, who write the Propaganda reviews for the Forbidden Planet International blog is posting a pile of themed reviews this week, all on British small press comics creators ahead of the Birmingham International… Read More ›
In Review: Robots
Review by David Hailwood If you haven’t already picked up a copy of British independent publisher Accent Press’s 2008 anthology Robots, then you’ll get another chance this weekend at the Birmingham International Comic Show. A 200 page beast of a… Read More ›
ROK Comics Humour Competition Winners Revealed
ROK Comics has announced that the overall winner of its 2008 Humour Comic Competition is David Fletcher, for his strip featuring Crumb, his crazy, ever-hungry blackbird character. David’s entry, titled “Pitter Patter” was a stand out winner for the editorial… Read More ›
DFC on YouTube!
Top artist Neill Cameron kindly dropped us a line to point us towards his rather exciting animated trailer for Season 2 of Mo-Bot High, his strip for The DFC comic, which is now up on Youtube and embedded above. There’s… Read More ›
Gothic Gasoline!
Top London and New York-based independent publishers Merrell — well known for their art and graphic design books and more — have announced the forthcoming release of Gasoline, an entrancing graphic novel by cult illustrator and musician Dame Darcy describes… Read More ›
Insomia Seeks Submisisons
Edinburgh-based Insomnia Publications , publishers of titles such as Layer Zero and the upcoming CancerTown, are accepting submissions from both writers and artists. Incoming Creative Director Nic Wilkinson tells us: “Insomnia are currently inviting submissions from both writers and artists… Read More ›
Birmingham Show Goodies!
With the Birmingham International Comic Show just a couple of weeks to go, it seems like a good idea to bring readers a small sampling of just some of the indie press titles on sale at the event. (And we… Read More ›
Eagle Cutaway Art
Following on from our review of The Eagle Annual Of The Cutaways we present a little more information on the cutaways themselves. It was not uncommon for some Eagle artists to change their art as they worked on it and… Read More ›
In Review: Eagle Annual Of The Cutaways
Review by Jeremy Briggs After last year’s uninspiring Eagle Annual: The Best Of The 1950s Comic, its sequel Best of the 1960s Comic has been put on hold to 2009 and this year’s offering from Orion is the unwieldily entitled… Read More ›
Thunderbirds: Action Alert!
FTL Publications in the USA have that announced the second of their officially licenced Thunderbirds novels, Action Alert! will be released in November 2008. The previous novel, Countdown To Action!, was published in June 2008 and was the first new… Read More ›
In Review: Commando and Starblazer Calendars 2009
Two years ago I began the review of the last Art of Commando calendar with “You wait years for a Commando calendar to come along, and then two arrive at once!” After nothing last year save for the usual Beano… Read More ›
In Review: Classics From The Comics 149
It has been out for a while but it is still worth giving the latest issue DC Thomson’s monthly reprint magazine Classics From The Comics a hearty pat on the back. Issue 149 includes two sections that are new to… Read More ›
Comic Timing at Harrods!
Check out this fantastic comics exhibition at Harrods
Dreaming Up The DFC: An Interview with Publisher David Fickling
Earlier this year, David Fickling Books and Random House launched The DFC, a new weekly comic in the UK, the first of its kind in terms of the levels of originated, new characters for many years. Packed to the gunnels… Read More ›
Beano, Dandy Too PC?
Euan Kerr, former editor of The Beano, has hit out at the current content of the comic and the Dandy arguing they have become too politically correct. In an article in the Telegraph, picking up on a report in Scotland… Read More ›