Bill Storie (aka Mike Nicoll) and I have just completed work on the second episode of “Secrets of Ceres”, the Ex Astris prequel strip running in science fiction comic magazine Spaceship Away, which goes to the printers soon. There were… Read More ›
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New Garth on MyEBook
The first new adventure of longtime Daily Mirror hero Garth, which has already been published on the British newspaper’s web site, have now been collected and are available in an online format from British e-publisher myebook.com. As noted in an… Read More ›
Commando Webbing: 12 January 2009
Over Christmas the boffins on the Commando Mag site launched a sneek attack under the radar and added a fourth complete on-line Commando story before they had even finished the third. Last Laugh is a World War II story of… Read More ›
Paul Cornell Signing in London
Captain Britain and Doctor Who writer Paul Cornell will be signing copies of the Captain Britain and MI13 – Secret Invasion graphic novel, the first collection of the Marvel Comics series, at Forbidden Planet later this week (Thursday 15th January)…. Read More ›
New Judge Dredd Movie: First Look
(via Rufus Dayglo and I09): 2000AD artist Jock has posted some designs for the new Judge Dredd film online, prompting excitement from fans hoping this time round the movie won’t turn into the disappointment for many of the Sylvester Stallone… Read More ›
Tintin is 80!
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 ›
Ex Astris on Clickwheel
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 ›
Tube Surfing: 8 January 2009
• 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 ›
In Review: Aya of Yop City
• 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 ›
Mike Battle: Stirred, Not Shaken!
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 ›
Tube Surfing: 5 January 2009
• 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 ›
Shades of Yesteryear! Looking Back at British Comic Fanzines
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 ›
Run With Dennis in 2009
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 ›
Merry Christmas: 1 Day To Go
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 ›
Eagle Times Volume 21 Number 4 Now Available
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 ›
Merry Christmas: 2 Days To Go
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 ›
New Thunderbirds Merchandise in 2009
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 ›
Simon Mackie’s Christmas Credit Crunch!
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 ›
2009 Book & Book Cover Illustration Awards
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 ›
Comic Christmas Covers
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 ›