For the very first time the team behind horror comic project Tragic Tales of Horrere are combining issues One and Two, the Halloween special and the Horrere Presents one-shot Laudanum into one stunning trade paperback collection. This brand-new book is a… Read More ›
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Beano Studios to Launch New Kids’ Consultancy Beano for Brands
Beano Studios is launching Beano for Brands, a kid-first consultancy for brands wanting to engage with older kids, Generation Alpha and their parents. Utilising the same kind of research employed to keep Beano comic lively for its target audience, Beano… Read More ›
Crowdfunding Spotlight: How To Make Comics With Springworth
Help Springworth, robot butler to the world’s superhero elite, and learn how to make comics along the way! That’s the premise for How To Make Comics With Springworth, a new brilliant-looking title from Fair Spark Books written by Tony Esmond… Read More ›
Commando’s Ramsey’s Raiders are back – in full colour!
It’s Commando’s Ramsey’s Raiders as you’ve never seen them before! They’re fully-loaded, fully-coloured, and ready to rumble in their first-ever graphic novel – Ramsey’s Raiders Classic Stories.
Graphic novel “Illegal” nominated for Carnegie Medal and the Kate Greenaway Medal
Nominations have just been published for the country’s oldest children’s book awards, the Carnegie Medal and the Kate Greenaway Medal – and both lists include nominations for Illegal, the graphic novel written by former Irish Children’s Laureate Eoin Colfer and children’s author… Read More ›
Animate Europe 2019 comics competition launched, asking what are the benefits of the EU?
What does the European Union mean to you? What are its benefits? In these turbulent times, the latest Animate Europe competition is challenging comic creators worldwide to come up with a comic addressing the value of the EU – and four finalists… Read More ›
November’s Judge Dredd Megazine to honour Carlos Ezquerra with bagged collection
The next issue of Judge Dredd Megazine – Issue 402 – will pay tribute to late co-creator of Judge Dredd and Strontium Dog, Carlos Ezquerra, with collection of stories from across his 40-year career with the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic, 2000AD…. Read More ›
Kickaround magazine offers Roy of the Rovers “Scouted” subscription incentive
It’s a big week for Roy of the Rovers fans as any decent newsagent will have two magazines that you’ll want to pick up… First up is Match of the Day magazine (Issue 529 – cover dated 30th October –… Read More ›
“Miss Potato Head And Friends” comics exhibition opens in Lancaster
An award- winning comics project helping young people to improve their literacy is being celebrated with an exhibition in Lancaster – and will then go on tour around Lancashire. The Comic Literacy Project is part of The Dukes Cultural Partnership… Read More ›
Superman lives here – honest!
Way back in the late 1990s, I was working on a potential new publication along the lines of Starburst and INFINITY for Titan, which never happened, but I did commission a small amount of material for a “dummy”, including this… Read More ›
Eoin Colfer and Andrew Donkin’s stunning graphic novel “Illegal” on Red Dot Awards Short List
Illegal, the brilliant graphic novel written by former Irish Children’s Laureate Eoin Colfer and children’s author and graphic novelist Andrew Donkin, illustrated by Italian artist, Giovanni Rigano, is among the short-listed books in this year’s Red Dot student choice book awards, an… Read More ›
Fair Spark Books announces new book series featuring John Celestri’s “Snuffy and Zoey”
Fair Spark Books has announced a new all-ages book series, launching next February – Snuffy and Zoey, by John Celestri, a series originally developed as a possible mobile game and also feature on the veteran animator’s YouTube Channel. You may think… Read More ›
In Review: Doctor Who: Thirteenth Doctor #1 – A New Beginning
Doctor Who: Thirteenth Doctor #1 Writer: Jody Houser Artists: Rachael Stott, Enrica Eren Angiolini Publisher: Titan Comics FC, $3.99, 32pp, On sale: 7th November 2018 With 13 Variant Covers – full details here The Book: Experience mind-blowing challenges and dynamic… Read More ›
Latest Lakes Festival Podcast comes crammed with creator interviews!
The latest Lakes International Comic Art Festival Podcast comes brimming with interviews from the annual Lakes International Comic Art Festival in Kendal, conducted by co-hosts Ian Loxam and Nikki Bates. “We chat about how the show was for us, what we… Read More ›
In Review: Dogbreath 35
Wrapped in a stunning cover from Stewart Davies and Darren Stephens, Dogbreath 35 – the latest issue of the longest-running 2000AD fanzine – is available now from Futurequake Press (as is Zarjaz 32, which I’ll try and review later this week… Read More ›
Horace Panter: The Beano 80th Birthday Collection opens in Harrogate
An exhibition of Horace Panter‘s Beano-inspired pop art opens in Harrogate later this month, at the RedHouse Originals Gallery. 2018 marks the 80th birthday of legendary comic The Beano and to celebrate, Beano Studios invited Horace Panter to produce a new… Read More ›
Exclusive Preview: Ron Turner’s Tit-Bits SF Comics
Earlier this week, we ran our review of the penultimate issue of Ron Turner’s Space Ace (Volume 11). Well, we have an exclusive look at a new vintage comics project from publisher John Lawrence, again featuring Ron Turner’s work –… Read More ›
How Commando publisher DC Thomson pioneered wartime family drama in comics
Long before “Charley’s War” in Battle, and the latest Commando mini-series, “The Weekes’ War” Dundee-based comics publisher DC Thomson pioneered the idea of seeing war through the eyes of different members of the same family in comics – all serving simultaneously on… Read More ›
Don’t miss out on “Psycho Gran – The Book Club” in the latest Aces Weekly!
As if you needed reminding, Aces Weekly Volume 36 is now running, which includes the continuance of Bo Hampton‘s, intriguing “The Hornbook“, plus Robert Wells‘ acerbic view of his fellow man in, “Love Her Madly”. But one of the… Read More ›
Titan Comics first Thirteenth Doctor series begins next week!
7th November 2018 sees the debut of Titan Comics‘ highly anticipated Thirteenth Doctor ongoing comic series, an event marked with the release of no less than thirteen variant covers. While the storyline is still under wraps, taking control of the… Read More ›