The next big event in the convention calendar after ELCAF is coming up soon. On Sunday the 5th August 2018 is the True Believers Comic Festival: Summer Variant. This event is returning to Blackfriars Priory, Ladybellegate Street, Gloucester between 11.am… Read More ›
Events
Warren Ellis to deliver Thought Bubble Keynote Talks, 2000AD creator competition details revealed
Thought Bubble has announced they’ll be welcoming comics writer Warren Ellis as a special guest to this year’s convention in Leeds (22nd – 23rd September). Warren will be giving special keynote talks on each day of 2018’s con. You can… Read More ›
Cosplay Festival comes to Kendal next month
Kendal, home to the long-running Lakes International Comic Art Festival, is to host a new Cosplay Festival – and both organisations will be working together. The town’s Ruskins pub will host a one day event on Sunday 15th July 2018,… Read More ›
Actor Jim Broadbent and artist Dix talk about their new graphic novel “Dull Margaret” in London this week
London’s Gosh Comics host an event with actor Jim Broadbent and artist Dix tonight (Tuesday 26th June 2018) to discuss their new graphic novel Dull Margaret with Paul Gravett. Copies of the Gosh! exclusive Dull Margaret Bookplate Edition will be available… Read More ›
Countdown to ELCAF 2018 – Publisher Spotlight: Centrala Books
The East London Comics Art Festival (ELCAF) is the sort of open marketplace that you can find comics of all different hues. There is much to be tasted visually over the weekend and it is always worth stepping out of… Read More ›
ELCAF 2018 Creator Spotlight: Andy Poyiadgi
Here’s another feature with some ideas for which comic creators you need to look for at the East London Comics Art Festival (ELCAF) 2018 next weekend … Do you like drinking tea? (Told you.) Do you like big ideas told… Read More ›
Countdown to ELCAF 2018 – Get Excited!
As if this summer hadn’t already been a cracking time for UK comics fans with events like the Cardiff Independent Comics Expo (report here) and Lawgiver (report here) just only popping into our rear view mirrors, next up is the East London… Read More ›
Matt Garvey chats about writing comics and more on latest Lakes International Comic Art Festival podcast
Comics writer Matt Garvey is the guest on the latest Lakes International Comic Art Festival podcast. He’s written a whole host of comics including The Either, Chunks, White Noir and The Devil in Disguise. Hosts Ian Loxam and Nikki Bates talk… Read More ›
Kaboom! Comics arrive at Preston’s Harris Museum, launch event next Saturday!
Love Comics? This is your chance to enjoy an eclectic mix of original comic art that will impress and inspire most comics’ fans, with a free exhibition of comic art at Preston’s Harris Museum in Lancashire, brought to the city… Read More ›
In Pictures: Treasury of British Comics Exhibition – Orbital Comics, London
Here’s a few snaps from the Treasury of British Comics exhibition currently on at Orbital Comics in central London. The art is being exhibited courtesy of 2000AD publisher Rebellion Publishing in a celebration of their imprint, The Treasury of British Comics. Rebellion have been lovingly… Read More ›
In Pictures: NoBrow’s “Studio Dreams” at the SPACE Gallery, Hackney
I have to admit that few things these days get me to head into London’s East End, an area that I spent a lot of time in during the late 1980s and early 90s. A place that was an altogether… Read More ›
Rocket Raccoon storms Blackpool’s Madame Tussauds, Groot stunned!
Suit up, grab your Awesome Mix Vol. 1 – and jet your way to Madame Tussauds Blackpool as it welcomes two new Guardians of the Galaxy figures. The brand new Marvel Super Heroes area, which opened earlier this year, is an… Read More ›
National Football Museum’s “Playing for a Draw” exhibition set to celebrate football comics
Playing for a Draw is a new exhibition that will showcase the wonderful world of football comic art at the National Football Museum in Manchester this summer, curated by top comic artist Steve McGarry. Offering a snapshot of over one… Read More ›
London’s Orbital Comics hosts new DesPop exhibition in July
July sees the return of comic and pop artist Des Taylor to Orbital Comics in London with a new exhibition. Influenced by vintage fashion, pin-up art, romance and Bronze Age comic books, Des has put together a collection of limited… Read More ›
Zoom Rockman mind probed for latest Lakes International Comic Art Festival Podcast!
Beano cartoonist and Lakes International Comic Art Festival patron Zoom Rockman is the guest of the organisation’s podcast this week. Zoom is a young creator who started producing comics from a young age, He appeared in the Beano at age… Read More ›
Alan Moore at London’s Royal Albert Hall tonight!
Join award-winning comedians and bibliophiles Robin Ince and Josie Long tonight in London, as they bring a special live version of the popular Book Shambles podcast to the Royal Albert Hall’s Elgar Room as part of Festival of Science: Space…. Read More ›
In Pictures: Cardiff Independent Comic Expo 2018
Well. That was a blooming good Comic Convention! The Cardiff Independent Comic Expo was a big deal for a couple of personal reasons. Myself and my Awesome Comics Podcast buddies, Vince Hunt and Dan Butcher (including the mighty Nick Prolix)… Read More ›
Comics @ Borders Book Festival 2018
The Borders Book Festival in the Scottish town of Melrose, perhaps best known for its Abbey and the Melrose Sevens rugby tournament, is not a literature festival that normally covers comics in any great depth but that has changed this… Read More ›
Comics Summit heads to Cheltenham in July
The Comics Summit, a brand-new event set up by creators, for creators has announced it will now take place across the weekend of 14 – 15th July in Cheltenham. The creating comics event, organised by Cheltenham-based Jon Lock of Big… Read More ›
New Gerry Anderson UFO Collection released ahead of second SHADO Con
Ahead of the second SHADO Con dedicated to Gerry Anderson’s alien invaders series, ITV have quietly released a new complete UFO DVD sporting new cover artwork. The series – Anderson’s first ongoing live action TV show – was previously available… Read More ›