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Happy birthday Tintin! 80 years ago this weekend (on 10 January 1929), Hergé’s Tintin made his first appearance in Le Petit Vingtième, the weekly children’s supplement of Le XXe Siècle. With Steven Spielberg working on a Hollywood film of the… Read More ›
The Ex Astris strips first featured on ROK Comics are now appearing on Rebellion’s iPod and iPhone service Clickwheel. Ex Astris is a multi-strand CGI-created strip written by John Freeman and drawn by Bill Storie (aka Mike Nicoll). The strip… Read More ›
• Things to buy this month – Marvel Heroes #3 from Panini UK, which allegedly features an Iron Man story by Al Ewing and Kev Walker, and Judge Dredd Megazine #280, on sale now in UK newsagents, which has the… Read More ›
• Written by Marguerite Abouet • Art by Clement Oubrerie • UK Publisher: Jonathan Cape • Released: 15 January 2009 For the residents of Yopougon, everyday life is good. It is the early 1970s, a golden time – work is… Read More ›
For years Sgt Mike Battle, the creation of artist-writer Graham Pearce, has been defending America (and sometimes her allies) from harm… but in his latest adventure he has to call in some help in the form of a certain British… Read More ›
• Empire Online, illustrating the news with a tasty image of Judge Dredd by Dylan Teague, report Danny Boyle’s DNA films has snatched up the rights to return the famous Judge to our screens in a story that remains so… Read More ›
Over on social community Facebook, former 1980s fanzine editor Russell Willis, who now lives in Japan, has posted a huge number of covers to some fondly-remembered British fanzines of the period, including this example of SCAN, edited by me,… Read More ›
So Christmas is over and the New Year celebrations are a vague memory, even if they only were last night. Your 2009 Dennis The Menace calendar is set to January, the Beano and Dennis annuals are both read and you… Read More ›
After the less than peaceful image of yesterday our Christmas covers look to their feminine side. Ian Kennedy is the artist once again but from DC Thomson’s long running “For Girls” title Bunty and a far cry it is from… Read More ›
The Christmas issue of the fanzine devoted to the original Eagle comic, Eagle Times, published by The Eagle Society, is now available. Volume 21 Issue 4 includes articles on artists Tony Weare and Ian Kennedy, the first part of a… Read More ›
Two days to go to Christmas and a slight cheat on our Christmas cover today in that it is the cover of an annual rather than a weekly title. That said Christmas covers on war comics are few and far… Read More ›
It’s just been announced that Gerry Anderson’s classic puppet series Thunderbirds has been re-licensed to Sci Fi Channel UK. SCI FI has renewed its license for the 32-episode show, for launch in the spring, and has also taken two additional… Read More ›
Tis the season for Christmas e-cards, and this one from cartoonist and illustrator Simon Mackie, creator of the Flick and Jube web comic, is one of my favourites so far… not only funny but summing up the mood of the… Read More ›
The closing date for the 2009 Book & Book Cover Illustration Awards, sponsored by the Enid Linder Foundation and organised by the Victoria and Albert Museum, is fast approaching. Entry into the Awards is free, with winners will be chosen… Read More ›
Over on his ever-wonderful Blimey! It’s Another Blog About Comics!, Lew Stringer has been running a series of features on British Christmas Comic Covers, offerings samples from a wide range of titles, from Film Fun and TV Express to the… Read More ›
As reported here last month, Issue 8 is a milestone edition for British comics fan magazine Crikey! with this 52-page issue published in full colour throughout. “So far, the response has been tremendous and the issue has only been on… Read More ›
• Warren Ellis has announced he will be writing a column for Conde Nast’s upcoming Wired UK magazine, edited by David Rowan, which launches next spring. “This attempt involves the services of Ben Hammersley, whose CV is twice as long… Read More ›
For the past seven or so years, Chris Smillie’s Starscape has been a comic then a webcomic, inspired by the idea of the evolution of traditional British comics, such as 2000AD, Mighty World of Marvel, Eagle and the Victor, taking… Read More ›
Mirabilis: Year of Wonders is a new ongoing series that starts in Issue 30 of Random House’s comic subsscription-only weekly comic The DFC on 19th December. Written by Dave Morris and illustrated by Leo Hartas, the series tells of a… Read More ›
British publisher Reynolds and Hearn are to release two books reprinting strips from TV Century 21 comic and other titles first published by City Editions in the 1960s such as Joe 90: Top Secret. Scheduled for release early next year and titled Century 21 – Classic Comic… Read More ›