Cinebook have been selective in their choices of Lucky Luke albums to translate into English, jumping around in the original French order and with Lucky Luke Versus The Pinkertons they have come completely up to date with their first English… Read More ›
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Markosia’s mind-bending comic releases!
It’s not often you get to release a book that causes people to worry about reality and feel unstable after reading it – which is how I felt after reading one of them. It’s almost unthinkable, dangerous even, that you… Read More ›
Treating Comics Seriously – Belfast’s Linen Hall Library
As part of their Northern Ireland Political Collection Lunchtime Lecture series, this week Belfast’s prestigious Linen Hall Library will feature talks on comics and political cartoons. The Linen Hall Library, opposite Belfast’s City Hall, was founded in 1788 and is… Read More ›
Artist Spotlight: Jésus Blasco
The Illustration Art Gallery is spotlighting the work of the late Jésus Blasco this month, offering a 20 per cent discount on any orders of his original art, which includes pages of perhaps his best-known strip in the UK, The… Read More ›
In Review: The Boss
Mix the pupils of a single school year concept in something like Harry Potter plus the control of agents from a command centre from something like NCIS:Los Angeles with the child investigators of, say, Enid Blyton’s Five Find-Outers and Dog… Read More ›
Remembering Lis Sladen, aka Sarah Jane Smith
Aurum Press will release Doctor Who actress Elisabeth Sladen’s autobiography this week – an occasion tempered with sadness, given her untimely death back in April – but a release that prompted my own memories of ‘working’ with the accomplished actress… Read More ›
Dick Turpin returns to Time Bomb Comics
Time Bomb Comics has announced that their next release, Dick Turpin and the Crimson Plague, will be launched at the Leeds Thoughtbubble weekend of the 19th & 20th November, where the creative team will be conducting a mid-day signing session… Read More ›
In Review: Lady S Volume 3 – Game Of Fools
Suzan Fitzroy, writer Jean Van Hamme and artist Philippe Aymond’s reluctant spy who is codenamed Lady S, returns in Game Of Fools, the third of her books from Cinebook, originally published in the French weekly comic Spirou before being complied… Read More ›
In Review: Antares – Episode 1
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 ›
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 ›