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Creating Comics
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In Memoriam: Fundraiser launched to support family of American comic artist John Paul Leon
Can you help realise artist John Paul Leon’s wishes?
Sector 13 writing team break into Heavy Metal
Congratulations very much in order for two independent comics writers
Coming Soon: “Creating Women”, a new online interview comics series
Another great looking video series about creating comics, coming soon…
How Alex Raymond’s “Rip Kirby” prompted post World War Two concerns for British comic creators’ jobs
How one post-war MP feared for comic creators livelihoods
New book reveals the life of Roy and Gertrude Wilson, the “King and Queen of British Golden Age comic papers”
Delve into inter-war British comics history in this new biography
Championing Comics and Comic Creators in the UK: An “Exit Interview” with Comics Laureate Hannah Berry
Looking back, looking forwards, ever campaigning, Hannah Berry talks about her time as Comics Laureate
Creating Comics: Panel Borders – Defensive Animals, with Leomi Sadler and Stan Sakai
Alex Fitch delves into more anthropomorphic comics in his latest comics-focused radio show
Making Better Comics – artist Adam Lumb delves into the comics form, aided by the work of Scott McCloud
Artist and writer delves into the ways comics are created and connect with readers
Power Comics: Lew Stringer’s Handy Guides to some of the best 1960s British weeklies
Nifty guides to WHAM!, SMASH!, POW!, FANTASTIC and TERRIFIC and early Marvel Comics reprints in the UK
Waitrose bans disposable plastic toys given away with children’s comics and magazines
A campaign to remove plastic gifts from comics and magazines aimed at children in the UK is gathering momentum
Meet comic creator G.E. Gallas – and the Plague Doctor, in latest Lakes Festival Podcast
The Lakes International Comic Art Festival Podcast team check out the latest project from G.E. Gallas
British Comics That Never Were – BBC Worldwide’s “ROBOT” Project – Part Two
A 1990s proposed BBC Worldwide comic magazine takes shape – but why didn’t it fly?
British Comics That Never Were – BBC Worldwide’s “ROBOT” Project – Part One
Many are the comics projects that don’t make it to publication – even one featuring an all-new Doctor Who…
“Traces of the Great War” Workshop Resources Released, aiming to help get comics into classrooms across the UK
A great new project that aims to get more comics – and comics creation – into British classrooms
10 Years to Save the World – Comics Creators announced for international British Council-backed comics project
Comic creators from the UK and the Philippines join new climate action project
British Comics Flashback: Looking back at the launch of Marvel UK’s “The Real Ghostbusters”
Philip Boyce began his utterly awesome OINK! Blog as a site charting history of the much-loved and fondly-remembered British humour comic, but the project has grown to encompass other titles. Today will see him reviewing the very first issue of… Read More ›
British comic creator Karrie Fransman among the winners of first Comic Art Europe “Open Call” for “Visions of Tomorrow”
Five European comic creators have been chosen to create their “Visions of Tomorrow”
Fumettomania Factory’s Anthropocene project aims to highlight climate emergency issues, seeks comics by international creators and Sicilian school children
Sicily’s cultural association Fumettomania Factory, active locally, regionally and nationally in Italy since 1991 is looking for more comic creators from across the globe to take part in its long term project, Anthropocene, aka We Could Save our Planet, which… Read More ›
Comic Creator Spotlight: Comic Artist Pino Rinaldi
I was so sorry to learn, so very belatedly, of the death of the brilliant Italian comic artist Pino Rinaldi (31st July 1957 – 18th April 2018), one of the contributors to the Marvel UK “Genesis 1992” project instigated by… Read More ›