A new graphic telling of the Fab Four’s story – The Beatles: All Our Yesterdays – gets its launch at Write Blend bookshop in South Road, Waterloo in Liverpool on Friday 10th February 2017. Written by Jason Quinn, drawn by… Read More ›
Events
Something For The Weekend: Time To Celebrate 40 years of 2000AD!
Squaxx dek Thargo will be out in force celebrating 40 Years of 2000AD in London this weekend – so how could we not mark this momentous event in this week’s British comic and creator-focused new comics round up with a… Read More ›
Britannia and The Mummy writer Peter Milligan signing at Forbidden Planet Newcastle opening day
As part of the launch day celebrations for Forbidden Planet‘s brand new Newcastle Megastore, writer Peter Milligan will be signing copies of Britannia, collecting Britannia #1 – 4, on Saturday 18th February 2017. In Peter Milligan’s Britannia, published by Valiant Entertainment,… Read More ›
Andy Holden’s exhibition “As Speed Increases Objects Can Be In Several Places At Once” now at Lancaster University
The result of five years’ work, Andy Holden’s Laws of Motion in a Cartoon Landscape, now showing at Lancaster Univerity‘s Peter Scott Gallery, presents a fully realised animated theory proposing the world is now best understood as a cartoon. Part-lecture, part-documentary,… Read More ›
From The Trenches: A Guest’s Eye View of True Believers Comic Festival 2017 by Jessica Martin
Comic creator Jessica Martin, one of many talents at the event, reveals how she’s now a “True Believer” after her trip to Cheltenham this weekend… On Saturday 5th February, I was a guest at the True Believers Comic Festival in… Read More ›
October date for 2017 Nottingham Comic Convention announced
The team behind Nottingham Comic Convention have just announced this year’s event will take place on Saturday 14th October – and released their promotional poster by Roger Langridge, a previous guest. “We have begun the process that is the long,… Read More ›
Lakes International Comic Art Festival wins two culture awards
The Lakes International Comic Art Festival won two awards at the Cumbria Life Culture Awards 2017 this weekend. Core team members Aileen McEoy and Carole Tait were among those on hand to collect the awards for Festival of the Year and another… Read More ›
Snapshots in Time: A Teddy Girl from 1955 – and more importantly, some very cheap comics!
Oxford’s North Wall Art Centre is currently hosting Ken Russell’s Teddy Girls & Boys – an exhibition of 50 photographs of teddy girls and boys, taken by ground-breaking film director, Ken Russell, brought together for the first time. One of… Read More ›
Captain America and Donald Trump cross swords (or shields) – in Oxford, courtesy of TORCH
Oxford’s TORCH Comics and Graphic Novels: The Politics of Form network are hosting an event on ‘Trump in the Age of Captain America/ Captain America in the Age of Trump‘ with Jason Dittmer from the University College London tomorrow night. Jason Dittmer is the… Read More ›
In Review: Future Shock! 40 Years of 2000AD – Cartoon Museum Exhibition
The 2000AD 40th Anniversary exhibition is open now at London’s Cartoon Museum – and Richard Sheaf was at the opening night… The idea to hold a 2000AD exhibition at London’s Cartoon Museum came about 12 months ago when Steve Marchant… Read More ›
Comics @ Aye Write! Glasgow’s Book Festival 2017
The Glasgow Book Festival Aye Write! returns to the city from 9th to 19th March 2017 of this year with a multitude of bookish talks, discussions and workshops over three locations, the Mitchell Library, Aye Write’s spiritual home, as well as the… Read More ›
Roy of the Rovers editor and “Scorer” writer Barrie Tomlinson confirmed for Lancaster Comics Day 2017
Roy of the Rovers and Tiger editor Barrie Tomlinson has been announced as a guest of Lancaster Comics Day 2017 (Sunday 11th June) – making a very rare appearance at a comics event. “It’s real Roy of the Rovers stuff!”… Read More ›
Doctor Who and Road to Perdition artist Richard Piers Rayner to make rare convention appearance for Lancaster Comics Day 2017
Making a rare convention appearance at Lancaster Comics Day on 11th June 2017will be the Doctor Who, Hellblazer and Road to Perdition artist Richard Piers Rayner. His appearance is something of a coup, as Richard has only appeared at perhaps as many as three comic conventions in the… Read More ›
Call For Papers: Documenting Trauma: Comics and the Politics of Memory Symposium, Oxford
The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH), which offers the city’s humanities scholars to collaborate with researchers across other disciplines, and institutions, has issued a Call For Papers for a day-long symposium to be hosting here in Oxford on 22nd June 2017. (The… Read More ›
London’s Barbican Gallery announces “Into the Unknown”, summer SF exhibition and events
(with thanks to Richard Sheaf): London’s Barbican Gallery has revealed details of its upcoming “Into the Unknown” exhibition, which opens in June 2017, and includes comics in in its content. One of the most celebrated fields in popular culture, science… Read More ›
This year’s DCA Thomson Exhibition inspired by Beano, Commando, features new Ian Kennedy art
Celebrating the 80th anniversary of The Broons and Oor Wullie, Dundee Contemporary Arts is hosting a unique group exhibition in partnership with DC Thomson, in which six artists have each created playful responses to the publisher’s extensive comic archives. The exhibition features… Read More ›
Nathan Sawaya’s “Art of Brick: DC Super Heroes” exhibition comes to London
Artist Nathan Sawaya returns to London soon with the World’s Largest LEGO Exhibition inspired by DC Comics heroes such as Batman, Superman, The Flash and Wonder Woman. Following a successful run in Madrid, The Art of Brick: DC Super Heroes – more than 120… Read More ›
Simon Spurrier “Power of the Dark Crystal” signing at Forbidden Planet London next month
Simon Spurrier will be signing The Power of the Dark Crystal #1, at the Forbidden Planet London Megastore on Wednesday 15th February 6 – 7.00pm. Archaia, the award-winning imprint of publisher BOOM! Studios, and The Jim Henson Company, announced The Power of the Dark Crystal, comic last… Read More ›
The Gang’s All Here (well, almost): 2000AD’s 40th birthday – full line-up and schedule announced
The full guest list and schedule for next month’s 2000AD 40 Years of Thrill-Power Festival has been announced – featuring a huge range of the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic’s contributors. While not every creator involved in creating the 2000AD legend will be… Read More ›
Celebrating David Bowie: Moonage Exhibition opens this week at London’s Orbital Comics
January marks what would have been David Bowie’s 70th birthday, and the first anniversary of his untimely death to cancer. Celebrating the career of one of popular art’s most vital innovators, chameleons and talents, Moonage Daydreams – an exhibition at London’s… Read More ›