Judge Dredd and console game writer Gordon Rennie divulges trade secrets in his new column about writing computer game scripts. Rennie, a former music journalist turned comics writer whose credits include strips for 2000AD such as Necronauts, Caballistics, Inc and… Read More ›
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Top Books of 2007
Publishers Weekly has posted a listing of the comics chosen for the print magazine’s “Best Books of 2007”. The books chosen for the Comics section include British creators Bryan Talbot’s Alice in Sunderland and Nick Abadzis’s Laika, along with Adrian… Read More ›
One Dandy Of An Accident
Not your typical comics related news story but on Wednesday morning the flat bed trailer of an articulated lorry carrying steel beams crashed through the wall of D C Thomson’s Guthrie Street printing plant in Dundee used for printing annuals… Read More ›
Dan Dare, Yesterday’s Hero, Returns!
Yesterday’s hero is back. Everyone’s favourite space adventurer, Dan Dare, returns this month in a new action-packed series from Virgin Comics and top creative team Garth Ennis and Gary Erskine. Matthew Badham caught up with the Ennis and Erskine to… Read More ›
Thumpculture hits the Web
Brilliant artist Neill Cameron, whose career I’ve followed for years, has been in touch to “casually mention” that he’s finally had a chance to get back to stunning strip Thumpculture. “I recently completed the first ‘issue’ online at www.thumpculture.com, and… Read More ›
David Lloyd on Tour
Kickback and V for Vendetta artist David Lloyd has just dropped us a line to let us know he’s embarking on a signing tour in Ireland later this month. The tour has been organised by comic shop Sub City, as… Read More ›
Pow! Zowie! Braaak! It’s (Still) Batman!
As an addition to the Batman trailer, here is the American poster for the 1960’s re-release of the 1943 Batman and Robin serial, taken from Tony Nourmand and Graham Marsh’s book Science Fiction Poster Art published by Aurum. Nourmand and… Read More ›
It’s Batman!
Here’s a gem from YouTube: a trailer for the 1943 cinema serial. Batman uses a gun… The poster doesn’t think this is the original trailer that was shown at the time of its original release but from the re-release, back… Read More ›
New UK Comic Creators Interviews
The fab comics site Read Yourself Raw has just been updated to include previews of new book, comic and manga releases for January 2008, a new essential reading list. They’ve also drawn our attention to some UK creator interviews and… Read More ›
TV21s for Sale on ebay
I have begun selling my copies of TV Century 21 on ebay. The first issues are #2 (with the free sticker badge given away with the issue), #79 with a Thunderbirds cover and #84 with a Stingray-related cover. Also on… Read More ›
Marvel Classics go digital
Variety reports US publisher Marvel Comics is putting some of its older comics online, hoping to reintroduce young people to the X-Men and Fantastic Four by showcasing the original issues in which such characters appeared. Marvel Digital Comics can only… Read More ›
Last Solar Wind Released
The final issue of the award winning parody and homage to British adventure comics of yesteryear Solar Wind has just been released. Winning National Comic of the Year as well as being nominated for an Eagle Award, it has also… Read More ›
Tales of Wit and Wonder
Eureka Productions has released a revised second edition of its long-out-of-print Graphic Classics: Mark Twain, the eighth volume in the Graphics Classics series of comics adaptations of great literature whose contributors include many British creators. With a dramatic cover painting… Read More ›
A Deserter’s Tale
Battle‘s acclaimed Charley’s War continues at Titan Books with the timely release of a fourth collection of the World War One tale. Written by Pat Mills, drawn by the legendary Joe Colquhoun, Blue’s Story continues the critically-acclaimed thrilling, horrifying and… Read More ›
Ex Astris Episode 11
• Bill’s now working on a mini-comic which takes up the story where this leaves our Earth-bound explorers. More information on this project here This version of Ex Astris was originally published on the ROK Comics platform
Ex Astris Episode 10
This version of Ex Astris was originally published on the ROK Comics platform
Ex Astris: Episode 8
This version of Ex Astris was originally published on the ROK Comics platform
Ex Astris: Episode 9
This version of Ex Astris was originally published on the ROK Comics platform
In Memoriam: Reverend Dr Chad Varah OBE, CBE
A tribute to the EAGLE and Girl writer, and founder of The Samaritans
John Cooper’s Rugby World Cup strip
For the Rugby World Cup final (yes, yes , I know it was a couple of weeks ago but I’m a bit behind) the Guardian newspaper produced a 12 page special full of the usual talikng heads, talking, as it… Read More ›