DC Thomson have announced The Dandy and The Beano have just gone digital through Apple’s recently-launched Newsstand service, with The Beano currently in the Top Ten in the service’s charts First published in 1937 and 1938 respectively, the two national… Read More ›
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Planet Replicas extends 2000AD merchandise line with new keyrings
Can’t find your Lawmaster keys? Keys to your hab have gone missing? Well, these problems are no more! Feel the envy of all of Mega City One with the first of a range of new, high-quality 2000AD keyrings from Planet… Read More ›
In Review: Iznogoud Rockets To Stardom
Jeremy Briggs checks out the latest English language Iznogoud collection from Cinebook
In Review: Rose Black – Demon Seed
Rose Black: Demon Seed is Rough Cut Comics’ newly released follow-up to their 2004 graphic novel Rose Black which told the story of a vampiric angel sent to earth some 600 years ago to battle evil on its own terms… Read More ›
Exclusive: Halo Jones stage play at the Lass O’Gowrie
Manchester’s Lass O’Gowrie pub – already famed for its comics and Doctor Who-related events – is staging Alan Moore and Ian Gibson’s The Ballad of Halo Jones as a fringe play in January next year. “It’s an adaptation of the… Read More ›
The Phoenix Issue Zero Via Waitrose
The first issue of the new Phoenix comic is due to come out on at the start of January 2012 however Waitrose supermarket customers are being given the change to get a sneak preview with a printed copy of the… Read More ›
2000AD’s Thought Bubble portfolio session: a quick reminder
2000AD is heading north to Leeds for the annual Thought Bubble comic book convention, taking place at the Saviles Hall conference venue at Clarence Dock in Leeds. That’s right next to the Royal Armouries museum, on 19th and 20th November,… Read More ›
In Review: Long John Silver – The Emerald Maze
Cinebook have reached the third in writer Xavier Dorison and artist Mathieu Lauffray’s Long John Silver series, The Emerald Maze, set some 20 years after the events of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island. Lady Vivian Hastings’ husband has found the… Read More ›
In Review: Commando 4443 – Killer In No-Man’s-Land
The batch of Commandos that are in the shops now, as well as including the reprint of the original Issue 2 from 50 years ago, also has two brand new stories set during the First World War. On the eleventh… Read More ›
Sale, Starkings, Hughes among Thought Bubble guest signings at Travelling Man
Hulk by Tim Sale The Travelling Man comic shops and Thought Bubble festival have just announced their line up of international comic superstars signing with at the store next week, as follows: Tim Sale, Richard Starkings and Gail SimoneTravelling Man… Read More ›
That Funny Little Man… Roy Newby exhibition announced
(with thanks to David Roach and Tim Pilcher) An exhibition by little-known artist Roy Newby, whose work over many decades included numerous comics, will go on show at Phoenix Place in Lewes, East Sussex, later this month. Roy’s work displays… Read More ›
Classic Commandos re-released
Another four Commandos will be out this Thursday and as it’s November, thoughts turn towards the Armistice at the end of the Great War. So it’s no surprise there’s a pair of World War 1 stories in this set of… Read More ›
In Review: Lucky Luke Vs The Pinkertons
Cinebook have been selective in their choices of Lucky Luke albums to translate into English, jumping around in the original French order and with Lucky Luke Versus The Pinkertons they have come completely up to date with their first English… Read More ›
Markosia’s mind-bending comic releases!
It’s not often you get to release a book that causes people to worry about reality and feel unstable after reading it – which is how I felt after reading one of them. It’s almost unthinkable, dangerous even, that you… Read More ›
Treating Comics Seriously – Belfast’s Linen Hall Library
As part of their Northern Ireland Political Collection Lunchtime Lecture series, this week Belfast’s prestigious Linen Hall Library will feature talks on comics and political cartoons. The Linen Hall Library, opposite Belfast’s City Hall, was founded in 1788 and is… Read More ›
Photo Review: Dundee Comics Day 2011
“The Dundee Comics Day has been the highlight of my comics year so far and I look forward in anticipation to what Chris Murray and his team have in store for next year” was how I ended my review of… Read More ›
Artist Spotlight: Jésus Blasco
The Illustration Art Gallery is spotlighting the work of the late Jésus Blasco this month, offering a 20 per cent discount on any orders of his original art, which includes pages of perhaps his best-known strip in the UK, The… Read More ›
Cartoonist Steve English wins first ‘Tartan Bucket’ prize
Steve English with his‘Tartan Bucket’ Steve English has just been awarded the first Tartan Bucket Prize (named in honour of famous Scottish comics character Oor Wullie) organised by Dundee University in conjunction with D C Thomson. The aim of the… Read More ›
In Review: The Boss
Mix the pupils of a single school year concept in something like Harry Potter plus the control of agents from a command centre from something like NCIS:Los Angeles with the child investigators of, say, Enid Blyton’s Five Find-Outers and Dog… Read More ›
Remembering Lis Sladen, aka Sarah Jane Smith
A bittersweet release