Last month, Pierre Christin and Jean-Claude Mézières were in London, at the Institut Francais, for an event titled Valerian & Laureline Disclosed. Chaired by comics expert Paul Gravett, the Valerian creators were full of life and were happy to rib each other… Read More ›
Yesterday, I attended and inspirational talk by Comics Laureate Charlie Adlard and Dr Natasa Lackovic from the GNC ReOPen project at Lancaster University, about how comics can encourage reading and how getting people involved in creating comics can be a… Read More ›
How on earth did I miss this? Ed Pinsent – one of the most distinctive voices in independent comics of the 1980s, put out a new Drake Ullingsworth title back in July. Plus, he has an amazing web site that’s… Read More ›
We’re just one day away from this year’s Lakes International Comic Art Festival and we have another interview with one of many guests from across the globe – with Australian comics creator and educator Stuart Medley. Stuart’s comics clients have… Read More ›
We’re just days away from this year’s Lakes International Comic Art Festival and we have another interview with one of many guests from across the globe – Bruce Mutard, an inspirational comics creator from Australia. A previous guest, this year… Read More ›
Overlooked, sidelined, excluded, discredited: key figures in scientific discovery come and take their bow in an alternative Nobel prize gallery – Graphic Science, a new book by graphic novelist Darryl Cunningham published by Myriad Editions – and we have a… Read More ›
Two years in the making, the graphic novel Illegal from Irish Children’s Laureate Eoin Colfer and children’s author and graphic novelist Andrew Donkin, illustrated by Italian artist, Giovanni Rigano, has just been published, and it’s already attracting well-deserved critical attention. The… Read More ›
The new Dan Dare comic from Titan Comics launches today and we’ve got some pages to share with you. Here’s the full intel on this action-packed first issue, written by Peter Milligan, with art by Alberto Foche! It’s on sale… Read More ›
Heading to the Lakes International Comic Art Festival? Get the Festival app on your iPhone, iPad or iTouch – and grab some artwork rewards as you explore Kendal. Created by Mobetrics, a Cumbrian mobile technology and app development company, the… Read More ›
The Finnish Institute in London launches The Finnish Village at the The Lakes International Comic Art Festival held in Kendal, Cumbria this weekend. The festival, which will take place 13th – 15th October, brings some of the biggest international names… Read More ›
Heritage Auctions offered this Frank Bellamy Garth daily comic strip first published in the Daily Mirror in 1975 in its latest auction at the weekend, which sold for over $650. J214 dated 8-29-75 sees Garth use a pilot’s trick to throw… Read More ›
The Lakes International Comic Art Festival tales place this weekend in Kendal (13th – 15th October 2017). Along with its free Family Zone, comic creator talks, signings, exhibitions, illustration portfolio reviews, Finnish Village (and sauna!) there are a number of… Read More ›
On 18th November 2017 from 1200 – 1700 EST, the United States Naval Academy Museum will host #NavyCon, a conference on how fleet forces have been portrayed in science fiction and how those apply to what the US navy does… Read More ›
Tony Esmond reports from across the Atlantic on his first day at New York Comic Con 2017… Last night was a doozy. I met up with Marc Laming, Amri and Adrian Hashimi (check out www.adrianhashimi.com for some of the best… Read More ›
If you’re in New York for New York Comic Con right now, then you may be interested to know the Metropolis Gallery is hosting a free Walking Dead Comic Art Exhibit …just a ten-minute stagger from the Javits Center. The… Read More ›
Netflix has ordered a ten-episode season of Raising Dion, a new SF drama series based on a comic book of the same name by award-winning director Dennis Liu, illustrated by Jason Piperberg. In the comic, Nicole, a young, African American single… Read More ›
Here’s a touching new comic you can read for free online: Parables of Care. Creative Responses to Dementia Care, as Told by Carers is now available. This16-page publication presents true stories of creative responses to dementia care, as told by… Read More ›
Here’s the intel on the latest issues of Commando (Issues 5059-5062) from DC Thomson, on sale now in all good newsagents across the UK and various digital platforms. Expect Cold War espionage, Battle of Britain aerobatics, lost Napoleonic treasures and… Read More ›
The organisers of the Storytelling Conference 2018 (10th – 11th July) at the University of Suffolk have announced the call for papers is now open. They are inviting papers that theoretically and empirically engage with a broad range of disciplines… Read More ›
2018 is going to be a perfect storm for the popular Jurassic World franchise, so it’s no surprise the franchise is expected to be a big attraction at this year’s Brand Licensing Europe show, taking place at Olympia, London (10th… Read More ›