With Bristol’s Temple Meads Station undergoing a massive £100m re-development over the next four years as the hub of the governments new high speed electric rail link, the 2014 Bristol Comic Expo (BCExpo) has had to seek a new home, since the… Read More ›
The South West will kick start the 2014 convention season with a special one day celebration of anime, manga and pop culture in February. The Comic Expo team has just announced it is teaming up with Kawaii store Keep it… Read More ›
Back in my days as editor of Marvel UK’s Doctor Who Magazine, I commissioned a number of illustrations to accompany a plethora of text stories that formed part of the title, new tales of the Doctor and companions to keep… Read More ›
Neill Cameron is a cartoonist and (occasional) educationalist whose comic strips have appeared in The DFC and The Phoenix. Recently, he was commissioned to create a gigantic comic strip that could be mounted on the side of the Story Museum… Read More ›
Brussels’ Gallerie Champaka is currently offering every single page of Nemo, the latest adventure of the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen drawn by Kevin O’Neill for sale – and has posted an online exhibition of the work, which runs until 7th… Read More ›
The Department of English at the Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz, Poland, has just issues s Call for Papers for its Fifth English Literary Meeting. Word and Image Crossovers, an international and interdisciplinary conference, will take place 29th – 30th… Read More ›
The London Super Comic Convention has announced Max Brooks, Jacen Burrows, Neil Edwards, Lee Garbett, Andy Lanning, Yanick Paquette, Jamie Tyndall, John Watson, JK Woodward, and Chrissie Zullo as the third wave of guests for the their 2014 event (15th –… Read More ›
Actor Jeremy Shada will be at Forbidden Planet London for a special Adventure Time signing featuring the Adventure Time Encyclopaedia on Monday 30th December from 3 – 4pm. The voice of young adventurer Finn from Cartoon Network’s hugely popular, BAFTA-winning… Read More ›
South West London and Surrey Zines, in association with London’s Housmans Bookshop, have announced a free event Christmas Zine Social on Saturday 7th December, where zine sellers can sell their wares in the run up to Christmas. Zine readers and… Read More ›
After successful conferences in Bournemouth, Glasgow and Dundee, the 2014 Fifth International Graphic Novel and Comics Studies conference, to be held 23rd – 25th June next year in Manchester, has announced its theme – production, institution and sedition – and… Read More ›
Titan Comics has announced its schedule for the Thought Bubble Festival in Leeds this weekend where the company will have brand-new comics and exclusive prints on sale, as well as a packed schedule of events including portfolio reviews and unmissable… Read More ›
In addition to the Comics Forum conference which forms part of this weekend’s Thought Bubble in Leeds this week, the academically-focused organisation also be running a table at the Thought Bubble convention this coming weekend where team members will be talking… Read More ›
Live fast. Die young. On 23rd November the horror-comedy anthology, BLACKOUT II: YOLO, will launch at Thought Bubble Festival in Leeds. BLACKOUT II: YOLO was created by P M Buchan (La Belle Dame Sans Merci, The Times Literary Supplement), Jack… Read More ›
Necessary Monsters, published by First Comics and created by by Daniel Merlin Goodbrey and Sean Azzopardi, debuts Issues 3 and 4 at Leeds Thought Bubble Festival this weekend. There exists a world of horrors beneath the one we know. Where… Read More ›
Dogooder Comics, a new Scottish small-press comics publisher, will launch their first book Dungeon Fun with a launch party at Plan B Books in Glasgow this Wednesday, before debuting UK-wide at Thought Bubble this weekend. Dungeon Fun is a story… Read More ›
SelfMadeHero, one of the UK’s leading independent graphic novel publishers, is preparing to burst into this year’s Thought Bubble, Leeds’ Comic Art Festival this weekend, with a whole army of creators and new graphic novels for the centrepiece convention weekend… Read More ›
Sometimes, it's humans who are the endangered species… Join the stars of upcoming monster movie The Expedition at MCM Birmingham Comic Con on Saturday 23rd November, rubbing shoulders with a range of comic creators, for a sneak peek at the… Read More ›
Veteran comic artist Mike Noble is to attend the Gerry Anderson-inspired Andercon in Heathrow, London, next April. Mike Noble is the legendary British comic artist and illustrator who began his career drawing strips such as The Lone Ranger in the… Read More ›
Two UK comic creators who previously used their artistic talents to raise awareness of bowel cancer have convinced some of the comic industry’s biggest names to donate items to a fundraising raffle for Beating Bowel Cancer and Breast Cancer Care…. Read More ›
British auctioners Brightwells, based in Leominster, have announced a major Comic Book Auction of both British and US comics and artwork next week (Wednesday, 20th November). The auction catalogue includes large collections of early Marvel and DC Comics, titles such… Read More ›