The Factoryroad Gallery in Hinkley, Leicestershire is hosting an exhibition of artwork from DJ Food‘s new album The Search Engine, and 2000AD artist Henry Flint‘s book Broadcast. The two artists collaborated on the art work for this album and the… Read More ›
Exhibitions
Exhibition news – mainly comics
Commando Comic Art – The Show Goes On!
The exhibition of Commando cover art at the National Army Museum in London may have just finished, but fear not if you missed it. The Commando team have just informed us they’re working with another museum to put on a… Read More ›
BD and Comics Passion Festival returns to London in May
I don’t know, you don’t have a comics gathering to go to and then three come along at once. In addition to the long-announced Bristol International Comic Expo (12th-13th May) and Kapow (19th-20th) in London next month, we’ve just had… Read More ›
It’s Life Jimmy, But Not As We Know It
In 2008, the National Library Of Scotland in Edinburgh put on their Local Heroes exhibition which displayed some of the library’s collection of comics and graphic novels and, impressively, Cam Kennedy’s original artwork for the Waverley graphic novel Kidnapped. This… Read More ›
Cartoon Museum honours ‘Her Maj’
London’s Cartoon Museum will be celebrating the Diamond Jubilee with a humorous history of the reign of Queen Elizabeth II. Her Maj: 60 Years of Unofficial Portraits of the Queen (1 February – 8 April 2012) will offer a gallery… Read More ›
John Ryan exhibition in Rye
For anyone venturing to the south east corner of England there’s an exhibition of Captain Pugwash creator John Ryan‘s work at Rye Art Gallery until mid February 2012. John Ryan, the author, illustrator and animator, who died in 2009 in… Read More ›
‘League of Extraordinary Gentlemen’ exhibition invades Europe
An exclusive “selling exhibition” of art from Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill’s League of Extraordinary Gentlemen saga opens later this month in various continental locations. In close collaboration with Alan Moore, acclaimed writer of Watchmen, From Hell and V for… 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 ›
Ladybird Art Exhibition At The Heritage Motor Centre
The Ladybird Big Book of Motor Cars Exhibition is currently on at the Heritage Motor Centre near Warwick. This exhibition includes over 120 Ladybird books plus more than 30 original pieces of Ladybird artwork alongside many of the vehicles which… Read More ›
Dundee Commando exhibition open
A quick reminder about the Commando exhibition in Dundee Jeremy Briggs gave an advance plug for last month, which has now opened, in advance of Dundee Comics Day on 30th October. Marking the 50th anniversary of Commando, It’s in the… Read More ›
Private Eye marks 50th anniversary with special issue
Issue 1300 of Private Eye, on sale 26th October, will be a special issue marking its 50th birthday. This landmark event for the magazine – which has always featured cartoons and comic strips satirising British life and politics – is… Read More ›
John Ryan Artwork Exhibition in Rye
Two characters that were created for the first issue of Eagle comic in April 1950 have entered the British public’s collective consciousness. The first is Eagle’s most well known character, the spaceman Dan Dare, but the other, whilst well known,… Read More ›
Historic Event told in Comic Strip Form
A gigantic comic strip depiction of the Battle of Wakefield drawn and written by artist John Welding, previously shown at Wakefield Museum as part of their ‘Battle of Wakefield 1460’ Exhibition, can be seen at the University of Leeds until… Read More ›
Dundee Comics Day And Commando Art Exhibition
The fifth annual Dundee Comics Day will be taking place in the Tower Building of Dundee University on Sunday 30 October 2011 as part of the Dundee Literary Festival. This will include the Commando Battlelines exhibition of artwork from DC… Read More ›
Exhibitions Of Original Comic Art At Dundee University
This year the comic art exhibition at Dundee University, in conjunction with the Dundee Comics Day, will be Commando Battlelines which celebrates the 50th anniversary of Britain’s last war comic. Since the event that is now called the Dundee Comics… Read More ›
Commando "Draw Your Weapons" exhibition opens at National Army Museum
The National Army Museum has just opened its small, but perfectly formed, exhibition based on the art of Commando comic, and Richard Sheaf was there for downthetubes on its opening night… The official opening night on Thursday (having been open… Read More ›
Draw Your Weapons! New Commandos are on sale now…
The latest issues of Britain’s only monthly war comic, Commando, are on sale now – and along with those comes details of the Draw Your Weapons exhibition at the National Army Museum, which includes a number of special events, listed… Read More ›
Vicky Stonebridge exhibition launches
An exhibition of paintings by SciFi Art Now contributor Vicky Stonebridge and John Mikietyn, and a ceramic sculpture by Allison Weightman, will open at the Scotland Russia Forum’s Edinburgh premises tonight at 6pm (Friday 12th August), attended by Sergei Krutikov,… Read More ›
Tank Museum to host Charley’s War exhibition
Charley’s War creator Pat Mills will be appearing at an event celebrating the critically-acclaimed Battle Picture Weekly strip at Britain’s Tank Museum in October. The event ties in with a planned exhibition of Charley’s War art which is being loaned… Read More ›
Imagined Cities: New londonprintstudio exhibition
Imagined Cities, a new exhibtion at lononprintstudio, opens this week (17th June) and features the work of a number of great British comic artists including Al Davison and Karrie Fransman. The exhibition will launch with a party on 16th June… Read More ›