It has been eleven months since both downthetubes and Bear Alley mentioned the Starblazer Adventures role-playing game due out from Cubicle Seven. The Starblazer Adventures core rulebook is now scheduled to be in games stores in “Autumn/Winter 2008” according to… Read More ›
British Comics
British comics-related news, interviews and features
Comic Book Adventures in Time and Space!
A group of Manchester comic and Doctor Who fans have organised a special event on 18 October at the Lass O’Gowrie, Manchester featuring several top creator names including Paul Cornell (left) and Steve Dillon. Vworp Vworp! Comic Book Adventures in… Read More ›
Beano Mischief on Radio 4!
Wallace & Gromit creator Nick Park and Beano editor Alan Digby were interviewed on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme this morning, part of the ongoing celebrations for the weekly comic as it fast approaches its 70th birthday. Park, who is… Read More ›
Crikey’s DC Thomson Special
The next issue of British comics history magazine Crikey! (Number 6) on sale soon, with the editors promising that the “Summer Special” (remember those?) is a DC Thomson focused issue, apt given the upcoming 70th birthday celebrations for that company’s… Read More ›
Celebrate 70 years of Comic Mayhem!
Ken Harrison has provided this great illustration for the forthcoming Beano and Dandy exhibition at the Cartoon Muesum in London. While some of the characters featured will be familar to today’s readers of The Beano and Dandy Ken has also… Read More ›
Tube Surfing: 19 July 2008
Tom Spurgeon of the Comics Reporter interviews British comic creator Daniel Merlin Goodbrey here. ‘What little I know about the writer and cartoonist Daniel Merlin Goodbrey intrigues in a way that it’s surprising I didn’t interview him a long time… Read More ›
Creepy Curtain Crawlers!
Comic creator Chris Reynolds, the groundbreaking talent behind the classic Mauretania graphic novel, has just added a new Moon Queen adventure to the comics to mobile service ROK Comics. Titled Curtain Crawlers, the spooky tale is different to the previous… Read More ›
BBC Issue a Comics Challenge
(with thanks to Robin Ashwell): The BBC online News Magazine has just published an article on newspaper comic strips — and is challenging readers to send in their own four panel creations. The article, published to publicise self-taught artist (and… Read More ›
2000AD Owners Interviewed
Game site Develop reports that British independent developer Rebellion, publishers of the Rogue Trooper and Judge Dredd games and also owners of cult comics 2000AD and Judge Dredd: The Megazine, has hit out at reports saying that the UK is… Read More ›
Grant Morrison: The Early Years Re-Released
Publisher Sequart.org has announced that a second edition of its first book, Grant Morrison: The Early Years, is now available exclusively through specialist comic shops via Diamond Previews (order code JUL084473). If you missed out last year, now is the… Read More ›
Tube Surfing: 12 July 2008
• Artist Rufus Dayglo has posted a message on the official 2000AD Forum revealing the new Tank Girl: Skidmarks series will begin will be making its debut in Judge Dredd Megazine #275.Meanwhile, Tank Girl – Visions of Booga #3 will… Read More ›
2000AD Online Makeover Nears Completion
The 2000AD Online web site seems to have almost completed its month-long makeover, with a cleaner layout that integrates more obvious links to some of Rebellion’s other services such as ipod comic site Clickwheel. “About a year ago, we had… Read More ›
Happy Birthday Beano Event
As previously mentioned here, Happy Birthday Beano, the official 70th anniversary exhibition will be running in the Tower Building of the University of Dundee from from 18th July to 20th September 2008. The display will include original artwork from the… Read More ›
2000AD Extreme Edition: R.I.P.
2000AD’s reprint title is no more
Commando Shop – Summer Offer
DC Thomson’s official Commando shop is currently offering free postage on all its orders. The Commando Gear shop offers T-shirts and mugs in a variety of different colours and designs with the Commando logo and the familiar F-S fighting knife… Read More ›
Beano Birthday Publicity Ramps Up
DC Thomson is pulling no punches when it comes to promoting the Beano‘s upcoming 70th issue, running a two page feature in this week’s Sunday Post to promote Wallace & Gromit creator Nick Park’s upcoming guest editorship of the birthday… Read More ›
Eagle Times Volume 21 Number 2 – Summer 2008
The latest issue of the Eagle Society‘s magazine Eagle Times (Volume 21 Number 2, Summer 2008) is now available by mail order. The magazine includes features on the artists who worked on the “Riders of the Range” strip, a look… Read More ›
The DFC – Single Issues Now Available
Much has been said over the last few months on the subject of the new British children’s comic, The DFC, and a lot of it has to do with its distribution method. The only way to get hold of it… Read More ›
Tube Surfing: 3 July 2008
Steve Holland of Bear Alley reviews Paul Gravett’s Mammoth Book of Best Crime Comics here. He dubs it a ‘must-have collection.’ Over at the Forbidden Planet Blog, Alex Fitch gives us the lowdown on many of the neat podcasts coming… Read More ›
2000AD Playing Cards For Free
The August issue of SFX, number 172, comes with a nice little freebie of a set of 2000AD playing cards. Nicolai Dante is, appropriately, the Jack of Hearts while Halo Jones is the Queen of Hearts, although that perhaps should… Read More ›