There has been a lot of Internet buzz about the 2009 Eagle Awards, following new Eagle Awards organiser Cassandra Conroy announcing that there wouldn’t be an award ceremony at the 2009 Bristol Comic Expo this coming weekend. Many were of… Read More ›
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TOXIC Goes Star Trek
The latest issue of Egmont’s TOXIC – out today – comes with free Green Alien Ears and an Outer-space Water Blaster, capitalising on the hype for the new Star Trek film. (We remember Spock having green blood, but not green… Read More ›
In Review: Western
Reviewed by David Hailwood Well, what can I say? The contributors to Accent UK’s latest anthology must’ve played some very bizarre games of Cowboys and Indians when they were children. In fact, I’m willing to bet their games had almost… Read More ›
Maggie, Maggie, Maggie…
— Out, Out, Out! What’s that? She turned into a man and re-named herself Tony Blair? The cunning minx…
In Memoriam: Adrian Kermode
We’re sorry to report the death of British journalist and comics writer Adrian Kermode
Who Gazes Upon The Watchmen? Chapter Two
At the beginning of April we reported that four pages of original Watchmen artwork by artist Dave Gibbons that had just sold on eBay, selling for between £4,058 and £5,600. Since then, three more pages have been sold. The first… Read More ›
Tube Surfing: 28 April 2009
• In his latest Lyin in the Gutters column, Rich Johnston reports Mark Millar and Bryan Hitch‘s Fantastic Four run for Marvel has had an altered schedule due to personal issues for both creators. The last double-sized edition, #569, has… Read More ›
As Rainbow Orchid Preps for Print, Parts go Offline…
Garen Ewing’s full web version of his comic strip The Rainbow Orchid, is going to remain online for just one more week. “Book publication of volume one (Egmont UK) is set for 4 August 2009, so after the bank holiday… Read More ›
Hi-Ex Comics Convention Returns In 2010
After the successful second Hi-Ex comics convention held in Inverness on Valentine’s weekend this year, organisers Vicky Stonebridge and Rich Clements have been in touch to let us know that Hi-Ex will return in 2010. After heavy snowfall prevented many… Read More ›
Orang Utan Moves to Light Speed
British indie publisher Orang Utan Comics have just released two new comics, both available to order online – and which will be on sale at the Comics Expo in Bristol next month. FTL#1, available from Indyplanet, is the first issue… Read More ›
Mirabalis Continues Online
New episodes of Mirabilis, which ran in the dead-but-just-resting The DFC, have just been posted online: www.mirabilis-yearofwonders.com/Episodes.html The creation of Dave Morris and Leo Hartas, Mirabilis was originally intended to appear in episodic form in Random House’s weekly comic, before… Read More ›
Smart Wins TOXIC Poll
Jamie Smart has won the TOXIC Crazy Comic Poll
Tube Surfing: 22 April 2009
It’s been a busy couple of weeks so our quick round ups of British comics news here have been a bit lacking. My apologies. • The reason things have been scant here is down to the soft launch of weirdandbeard.com,… Read More ›
Absolute V for Vendetta Previewed
Top comics artist David Lloyd, creator of Kickback, has been sharing some of the newly-coloured ‘bridging pages’ for the upcoming Absolute V For Vendetta, due for release in August. “For those of you who are only familiar with V in… Read More ›
Keith Page: Raiding the Past and Future
Comics artist Keith Page, co-creator of the mobile strip Charlotte Corday, is one of the regular interior and cover artists on British publisher DC Thomson’s Commando as well as writing and illustrating the Dan Dare prequel Rocket Pilot in comics… Read More ›
Commando Webbing: 11 April 2009
Commando issue 4187, Raiders: The Reckoning, is one of the current batch of four Commandos on sale now and brings to a close the current run of Ramsey’s Raiders stories. Created by writer Ferg Handley, the Special Raiding Force of… Read More ›
Tube Surfing: 5 April 2009
• The Independent on Sunday carried a two-page ‘interview’ with Roy “Roy of the Rovers” Race today, a splendid piece of well-researched work about the character and his history by writer Cole Morton. The piece not only promoted the new… Read More ›
Who Gazes Upon The Watchmen?
Now that the fuss about the movie has died down and you have treated yourself to the absolute edition of the graphic novel, to the definitive companion to the graphic novel, to the companion to the film, to the art… Read More ›
TOXIC Comics Special Out Now
TOXIC Issue 137 with the Comic Supplement featuring work from a host of great creators is on sale now in all good newsagents. So go and buy a copy and support British Comics! If sales are strong it will encourage… Read More ›
Furman’s New Projects
Top British comics creator Simon Furman may have been quiet of late, but this doesn’t mean he isn’t busy. In fact, when he called downthetubes last week it was clear the writer, whose credits range from Transformers to Doctor Who,… Read More ›