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Preston Comic Con returns this weekend offering celebrity and comic creator lineup, £100 cosplay prize
Mayhem ahead in Preston this weekend!
Panel Borders: Atmospheric Locations
New comic creator interviews!
LICAF Special Award announced for Palestinian cartoonist Safaa Odah
Recognition for work in adversity in Gaza
Robin Lang and Helge Dascher announced 2025 winners of Sophie Castille Awards for Comics in Translation – English
Another accolade for the work of Boum and its translators
Turkish cartoonist Zehra Ömeroğlu presented with Robert Russell Courage in Cartooning Award 2025
Deserved award for censored Turkish cartoonist
Lorenzo Mattotti wins 2025 Sergio Aragonés International Award for Excellence in Comic Art
Deserved further acclaim for an incredible artist
Brooding Darkness Spreads its Wings: A Potted History of Night Raven
Pulp hero, or Moon Knight villain?
Mollie Ray announced as UK’s First-Ever Young Comics Laureate
A bold new role putting comics at the heart of young people’s lives
Best of British remembers Scream!
The short lived weekly horror comic, Scream!, remembered
First Graphic Novel Award Longlist Announced
The First Graphic Novel Award has announced the longlist for 2025
Rob Talbot’s GraveWorms to be unleashed on the Lakes!
A love letter to all the great – and even the not so great – horror comics of yore
downthetubes News Round Up: new SHIFT, Commando vs Zombies, and more
News items are currently being posted to our temporary blog
Save The Date: Sequential Scotland returns in August 2026; new Small Press Scotland CIC formed
Two great Scottish comic events ahead
“Brain Sneezing” Competition calls for cartoons lampooning AI
Another annual international cartoon competition to challenge creators
Do You Remember Tiffany Jones?
The creation of the first all-female newspaper strip team
Call For Papers: Comics and Machines
Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm academic event announced
“From Palestine” project reveals globally-significant comic art from Gaza and the West Bank
New comics born from adversity in the spotlight
British Comics Now at Brussels Comic Art Museum next month
British comic creators head to Belgium
UK Comics Creators Survey 2025 Launched
If you create comics and you’re based in the UK, this survey is for you