This year’s Lakes International Comic Art Festival will start with a bang, not a whimper, thanks to welcome sponsorship from Specsavers – one of several local businesses in Kendal that are backing the event when it returns for a third spectacular year… Read More ›
Top artist Alan Burrows – best known for his work on Eagle and Red Dwarf – has provided a cover for the latest issue of the science fiction and fantasy digital comic 100% Biodegradable (Issue 9) – available now. The latest… Read More ›
As we near the end of Mark Buckingham‘s epic run on DC Comics’s Vertigo Fables with Issue 150, London’s Orbital Comics is presenting a retrospective of the artist’s work, featuring a variety of different pieces from throughout the years. The exhibition opens… Read More ›
Top Greek cartoonist Arkas – his identity outside cartooning unknown, by design – has suspended his only social media presence after online abuse. Arkas is one of the most popular and widely-read Greek cartoonists and comics artists snd regarded by… Read More ›
Titan Comics have announced their impending publication of Manchette’s Fatale, a comics adaptation of the work of world-renowned noir crime author, Jean-Patrick Manchette. This edition, adapted by Doug Headline and illustrated by Max Cabanes, has been described by editor Lizzie Kaye as, “Lolita meets The Virgin Suicides.” In Manchette’s Fatale, Aimée is… Read More ›
For several months now, British comics fan David Hathaway-Price had been gathering and scanning every British comics fanzine that he’s been able to buy or had loaned to him. His aim is to create a Fanzine archive / repository, celebrating… Read More ›
Here’s our guide to new comics and graphic on sale in British comic shops today (Wednesday 24th June 2015), complementing our monthly list of new British graphic novels and comic collections (June 2015 list here). This list. as usual, focuses primarily… Read More ›
Despite the best efforts of enemy spies (and, possibly, a giant snake), the determined team at Commando have managed to slip us the intel on the latest issues of the war comic (Issues 4819-4822) on sale now in all good newsagents… Read More ›
Following on from the success of GoodCopBadCop at last summer’s True Believers/ Eagles awards, another Planet Jimbot title, Amongst the Stars has made the Scottish Independent Comic Book Alliance (SICBA) shortlist for Best Graphic Novel 2015. The full list of nominate titles… Read More ›
To celebrate the Asterix album’s 50th anniversary of publication in France, Asterix and the Banquet returned to bookshops there earlier this month with two brand new editions – and began a tour of the country with a special exhibition featuring artwork and behind… Read More ›