Here’s the intel for DC Thomson’s Commando Issues 4939-4942 – on sale now in all good newsagents across the UK and via various digital platforms. Two issues are set in the Far Eastern grandeur of New Guinea’s truly impressive landscape,… Read More ›
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Comic-Con run turns sour, comic fans warned as similar events still being advertised
Comic fans and running enthusiasts are being warned to be on their guard after families donned fancy dress costumes and headed to Sutton Park for a “fan-freaking-tastic” Comic-Con Run – only to find that it wasn’t taking place. A number of similar events… Read More ›
Coming Soon: the first-ever Worcester Comic Con
Taking place at the University of Worcester Arena on Sunday 21st August, with a promised one hundred traders of wonderful things, from comics to film and TV merchandise, the first ever Worcester Comic Con offers a great line up of comics creators as guests, plus appearances… Read More ›
US Comics Grading Company CBCS Saves 2016 ICE Comic Convention from Cancellation
Running a non profit making comic convention to the high professional standard of The International Comics Expo in Birmingham must be challenging enough, but when the Arts Council pulled their third and final year of funding from the event last… Read More ›
Comics Dundee: Beyond The Bucket Trail
Check out the BEANO and Oor Wullie statues, and other DC Thomson-related things to see in Dundee
2000AD’s Dan Dare – in Spanish!
Hibernia Comics has posted another great Dan Dare find on their Facebook page. Featured here are Issue One and Two of the 1970s Spanish Dan Dare comic, reprinting the 2000AD stories. Both covers are by Spanish artist Josep Maria Miralles. Contents… Read More ›
Awesome Comics Podcast Episode 58: Jamie Smart
The guest for the Awesome Comics Podcast Episode 58 is the man behind the mighty Moose Kid Comics, Jamie Smart. As we reported just recently, a new issue of the brilliant digital comic for kids (of all ages) is out now,… Read More ›
Asterix: The Mansion of the Gods Finally Reaches British Cinemas
Asterix: The Mansion of the Gods, is finally released in English in UK cinemas on 19th August, in 3D and 2D. The first Asterix 3D motion picture, initially released in France in 2014, finds Asterix and friends still resisting Roman rule… Read More ›
Striker heads back to The Sun, new projects also in the works
Striker – one of Britain’s longest running newspaper strips, mainly published in The Sun – is on its way back at last, “and probably very soon”, according to creator Pete Nash. Subject to any last minute hiccups, the strip will… Read More ›
Comics Dundee: Oor Wullie’s Bucket Trail
The city of Dundee is currently in the middle of the art and charity installation Oor Wullies’ Bucket Trail in which painted fibreglass statues of the Sunday Post newspaper’s 80 year old naughty boy character are scattered around the city for… Read More ›
Injection Volume Two Out This Week, Warren Ellis hints at new Doctor Who inspiration for new story
Injection Volume Two by Warren Ellis, Declan Shalvey and Jordie Bellaire is out from Image Comics on Wednesday (10th August 2016), on sale in all good comics shops and book shops, digital and physical. Once upon a time, there were five… Read More ›
The Story of British Comics So Far opens at Woking’s Lightbox
Yesterday saw a new exhibition open at The Lightbox gallery and museum, Woking that we highlighted earlier this year, which will take visitors on an interactive journey through the past, present and future of sequential art. The Story of British… Read More ›
Comics @ Edinburgh International Book Festival 2016
The Edinburgh International Book Festival, the world’s largest literary festival which runs from 13 to 29 August 2016 in the Scottish capital’s Charlotte Square Gardens, opens doors one week from today. While the impressive Stripped ‘festival-within-a-festival’ that was held in… Read More ›
Dan Dare “Lost Film” eBay find, and Les Edwards’ unused Mekon design
Recently spotted on eBay by Hibernia Comics fan Paul Dowson was this advertisement cut carefully from an October 1975 issue of Variety for a never made Dan Dare film, a project from Phenomenal Film Productions, which owned both the film and… Read More ›
2000AD and Thought Bubble Festival partner again for 2016 Talent Search
Calling all budding writers and artists – this November could be your big chance to break into comics, courtesy of 2000AD and the Thought Bubble Festival. During November’s Thought Bubble convention in Leeds, 2000AD will once again stage the only… Read More ›
Something For The Weekend (w/c 1st August 2016): Torchwood, 2000AD and Lucky Luke!
It’s a busy week for Titan Comics, with the launch of NBA All-star legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar‘s debut comic book Mycroft Holmes – focused on the early, chaotic life of the elder Holmes brother – and their new Torchwood title, written by Captain… Read More ›
Millarworld Talent Search 2016 Launches 1st September
Top comics creator Mark Millar has announced the Millarworld Talent Search 2016 will begin on 1st September. “Lat year we did this and it was crazy,” he noted on his official forum. “So many brilliant entries and the top 13… Read More ›
Artist John Byrne to make rare convention appearance in Las Vegas this weekend
Creation Entertainment’s 15th Annual Las Vegas Star Trek Convention 2016 kicks off this week and one of the special guests in attendance will be John Byrne, a titan in his field whose contributions to comic books cannot be overstated. Not… Read More ›
Top US indie comic artist Frank Santoro brings his Comics Workbook project to the Lakes
The Lakes International Comic Art Festival has announced that top indie comic creator Frank Santoro will be at this year’s event, bringing his Comics Workbook project to Britain for the first time with fellow creators Aidan Koch and Connor Willumsen. The Comics Workbook events are just… Read More ›
A Double Dose of the Awesome Comics Podcast – in Full Colour from K. Michael Russell & Learn Comic Color.com!
Yes, yes, we got behind again on our Awesome Comics Podcast plugs, so Tony Esmond kicked me in the nadgers until I promised to get up to date. Ready? Here we go… Comic book stores are some of the best… Read More ›