The Book: Top British comics archivist Steve Holland has re-launched his Bear Alley Books imprint with Hurricane and Champion: The Companion Papers to Valiant an all-new index to two classic British comics detailing the histories of both papers and reveals… Read More ›
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Bryan Talbot’s Family Business
Grandville creator Bryan Talbot is currently drawing a graphic novel written by his wife, Mary Talbot, to be published by Jonathan Cape in the UK and Dark Horse in the US, hopefully later this year. Dotter of her Father’s Eyes… Read More ›
In Review: Lucky Luke – The Bounty Hunter
The Lucky Luke titles from Cinebook come thick and fast, one every two months and, while I don’t review them all, how could I pass up The Bounty Hunter when it has Lee Van Cleef on the cover? Bounty hunters… Read More ›
In Review: XIII – Full Red
Who is XIII?Book 1 – presidential assassin?Book 2 – special forces soldier?Book 3 – psychotic murderer?Book 4 – undercover spy? In the fifth XIII book, Full Red, writer Jean Van Hamme and artist William Vance take readers back to that… Read More ›
Commando goes fortnightly
Along with information on the latest issues of war comic Commando comes news from DC Thomson that the long-running title will be published fortnightly this year – giving 104 doses of action and adventure to the title’s fans worldwide. Commando… Read More ›
In Review: The Bluecoats – The Greenhorn
Cinebook takes us back to the fun of the old West with purdy laydies, saloon brawls and dangerous injuns, not this time in the regular company of Lucky Luke but in their less regular American civil war series The Bluecoats…. Read More ›
The Sunday Post Celebrates 75 Years Of Oor Wullie And The Broons
On Sunday 8 March 1936 the headline on DC Thomson’s newspaper The Sunday Post was “Europe Alarmed – France’s Retort to Hitler’s Move – All Army Leave Cancelled”. Inside however there was something a little more light hearted with the… Read More ›
Sneek Peek: New Dan Dare for Spaceship Away
We’re pleased to report that the next issue of the Dan Dare-inspired comics magazine Spaceship Away is on course to go to press very soon, featuring its regular thrice-yearly mix of comic strip and features. Now edited by Des Shaw,… Read More ›
Hurricane and Champion: the Companion Papers to Valiant
Top British comics archivist Steve Holland has re-launched his Bear Alley Books imprint with Mean Streetmaps, a collection of essays on crime noir, and an all-new index to two classic British comics. Hurricane and Champion: The Companion Papers to Valiant… Read More ›
Take a Butcher’s at Slaughterman’s Creed
Markosia Enterprises have just announced their new graphic novel, Slaughterman’s Creed – a surreal London gangland thriller which combines the vicious intensity of British crime fiction with the structure and spirit of a Samurai revenge drama in a nightmarishly compelling… Read More ›