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Jings, crivvens and help ma boab! Oor Wullie’s bucket has been found, after it was stolen earlier this year – by cheeky Wullie look-a-like Jamie Webster. The Sunday Post, which publishes the Oor Wullie, strip, revealed the iconic Scottish comic… Read More ›
Soaring Penguin Press are to publish a new four issue crime noir comic series, The Black Feather Falls, from Ellen Lindner in the UK. Travel back to 1920s London and meet Tina Swift, who has just arrived in London from… Read More ›
The City is our story – but what is a city? That’s the question being posed by architect Alison Sampson and comics artist Ian MacEwan through Think of a City, a tumblr-based, mass storytelling project involving a huge range… Read More ›
30 years after creating the iconic small press character, comics writer and author Jason Cobley is bringing Captain Winston Bulldog back to print in the long-running indie anthology Paragon comic, the brainchild of artist Davey Candish. The tales of anthropomorphic… Read More ›
These are my ‘finalists’ in the downthetubes Twelfth Doctor Art Challenge, after a lot of umming and ahhing confronted by such an amazing range of entries, including terrific ‘cartoon’ interpretations as well as the realistic. When you have a competition… Read More ›
Issue 16 of the excellent Gerry Anderson-inspired zine Andersonic, with cover art by Rob Caswell, is now available via their website (and eBay for a short period in the Collectibles > SF > Thunderbirds section). The team have pulled off… Read More ›
US publisher Gemstone reports the second book in the new Overstreet “How To” series is off to the printer. The Overstreet Guide To Collecting Comic & Animation Art, with a Silver Surfer #1 recreation cover by renowned painter Joe Jusko,… Read More ›
The Unwritten original graphic novel by Mike Carey and Peter Gross, on sale 1st October in the UK, features a stunning cover by Yuko Shimizu and includes 31 pages of fully painted art by Al Davison, with additional art by… Read More ›
Here’s the rundown on three Titan Comics titles on sale from today in all good comic shops! A1 #4 WEIRDING WILLOWS: There’s a dinosaur from Hollow Earth loose in the Weir and she’s eating Farmer McGregor’s sheep! Can Alice and… Read More ›
Our Doctor Who Twelfth Doctor Art Challenge competition has closed, and you can view all the entries here. We’ve been blown away by the range of entries, both realistic and caricature/cartoon featuring Peter Capaldi as the Twelfth Doctor, which include… Read More ›
(via ProCartoonists.org): The Young Cartoonists of the Year Competition 2013, which is run by London’s Cartoon Museum and the British Cartoonists Association, has opened – and for the first time, they are accepting artwork that has been created digitally. Judges… Read More ›
A quick shout out for ace comics writer Simon Furman, who tells us he should be at the Bewdley Book Week in (you guessed it) Bewdley, near Kidderminster, Worcestershire on Friday 13th September to give a talk and book signing,… Read More ›
Industry legend Simon Bisley returns to 2000AD today, for a special one-off episode of the strip that catapulted him to international fame in the 1980s – Sláine. To celebrate the Celtic barbarian’s 30th anniversary, in Sláine: Book of Scars creator… Read More ›
We’re delighted to report that artist Gordon Tait‘s Beano-inspired painting, auctioned via eBay on behalf of the Willow Foundation, raised £3200 for this great cause. Founded by former Scotland and Arsenal goalkeeper Bob Wilson and his wife Megs in memory… Read More ›
Dark Horse Comics have very kindly sent us some preview pages from Best of Milligan and McCarthy – a deluxe collection of hard-to-find gems from Peter Milligan (Hellblazer, X-Statix) and Brendan McCarthy (Judge Dredd, The Zaucer of Zilk), due for… Read More ›
The third issue of Dark Horse Comics Catalyst Comix, on sale 4th September in UK comic shops and online, features a wrapround cover by Brendan McCarthy and more great art from artists Dan McDaid (Doctor Who) and Paul Maybury (Aqua… Read More ›
Next Wednesday (11th September) sees the release of Stuart Jennet’s Chronos Commandos #3 from Titan Comics – and we have a special preview for you below! In Chronos Commandos: Dawn Patrol #3 the time team are trapped in the past,… Read More ›
(via BugPowder): On sale now is the RhiZome Anthology, a weird but wonderful-looking 48-page black and white science-fiction and fantasy anthology, co-edited by Rob Jackson and Kyle Baddeley-Read. The anthology contains stories by Max Mose, Rob, Kyle Baddeley-Read, John Robbins… Read More ›
Look up in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s a blird! It’s a pane! It’s a blane! It’s a plird! It’s a bane! Oh… actually, it seems to be some sort of flying, anthropomorphic phacochoerus aethiopicus, wearing… Read More ›
After the appearance of the original Knight Rider star David Hasslhoff in his fab comic Retro Tales, comic creator Simon Williams has announced his next guest star – the legendary king of muscle rock, Jon Mikl Thor. “The one and… Read More ›