Non Comics items – TV, Film, Books, and other things that internet wandering alerted us to
The next issue of Egmont’s TOXIC, on sale next week, will be a Gaming Special, presumably following up on the success of the recent issue that included a bonus Fortnite premium. Published every three weeks, the title includes some comic strip… Read More ›
Review by Tim Robins WARNING – SPOILERS AHEAD… First UK Broadcast: Sunday 7th October 2018 Written By: Chris Chibnall Directed By: Jamie Childs Introducing Jodie Whittaker as The Doctor; Bradley Walsh as Graham O’Brien; Tosin Cole as Ryan Sinclair; and… Read More ›
Beano Studios has announced the appointment of Rocket Licensing as their UK licensing agent and Angeles Blanco’s promotion to Director of Global Licensing. Rocket Licensing – whose clients also include US comics publisher Valiant Entertainment, MGM and Sony Pictures –… Read More ›
Aisle19 Solutions is to bring classic Hammer Horror style to the British high street, thanks to its new partnership with the British film studio, and its first port of call is Topman and Topshop. Aisle19 Solutions has secured the rights… Read More ›
Late last year, artist Matthew Serge Guy launched a Kickstarter to create a memorial to Félicette, the first cat in space. The project clearly caught the mood of cat lovers worldwide, because he raised over £43,000 to make the project… Read More ›
Trading Boundaries in Uckfield, Sussex, has announced their 2018 official Roger Dean exhibition – Crossing the Line.
Streaming service Netflix is to be the new home for C.S. Lewis’ Chronicles of Narnia, working with Entertainment One (EOne) and the C.S. Lewis Company to create movies and series based on all seven of Lewis’ fantasy tales. Considered a… Read More ›
Award-winning wholesaler Half Moon Bay has secured the licensing rights for both Moomin and Thunderbirds, adding the classic brands to its expanding gift and publishing portfolio in the UK, with new launches early in 2019. The Bath-based company, established in… Read More ›
There’s another packed episode of the Lakes International Comic Art Festival Podcast on offer this week, as the team prepare for the Lakes International Comic Art Festival 2018 – not long to go now! This episode Ian Loxam and Nikki… Read More ›
In this week’s Panel Borders, Alex Fitch talks to a pair of comic book creators who have been involved in titles which depicted The Death of Superman. In a discussion recorded at Portsmouth Comic Con, writer Louise Simonson talks about… Read More ›
PanelxPanel #16 – Giant Days is on sale later month, covering US publisher Boom’s Giant Days series, by John Allison, Max Sarin, Whitney Cogar and Jim Campbell. PanelxPanel is a digital magazine celebrating the medium of comics, edited by Strip… Read More ›
An intriguing art book, The Oxford Trollomicus, created by Spike Greenwood, has caught my eye over on Kickstarter – a gorgeous-looking Illustrated Guide Book to the Bridge Trolls of Oxford, based on the increasingly dubious research of Professor Bulstrode Whitless…… Read More ›
Back in the 1980s, pop-rock group Loose Talk produced a song based on Eagle‘s Dan Dare (in his 1982 re-launch incarnation, not the 1950s original). But there’s a tip of the hat to another SF saga too, in the promotional… Read More ›
Coming soon from top Doctor Who artist Andrew Skilleter is his The Doctor Who Art of Andrew Skilleter 2019 Limited Edition Calendar, featuring twelve of his paintings featuring Doctors One to Twelve. The stylish graphics combined with the artwork will guarantee you 12… Read More ›
Network has just released The Goodies: The Complete BBC Collection, as a general DVD release and a now sold out limited edition set – and there is a quick mention of the tie-in comic strip that appeared in weekly humour comic… Read More ›
Issue 40 of Justin Marriott‘s The Paperbook Fanatic is now available from Amazon, the latest in a series of terrific fanzines he publishes through Amazon’s Createspace service, primarily dedicated to vintage paperbacks, but often cross over into comics material. The Paperbook… Read More ›
Every year, in the countdown to the Lakes International Comic Art Festival, we bring you a series of interviews with guests at the event. This “Festival Focus” for 2018 is Tokyo-born illustrator Satoshi Kitamura who, after dropping out of school to pursue… Read More ›
Osprey Games, a division of Osprey Publishing, has revealed 2000AD artists Rufus Dayglo and Dan Cornwell as the artists on its upcoming Judge Dredd: The Cursed Earth card game. As we previously reported, Judge Dredd: The Cursed Earth, set to… Read More ›
Ace comics, film and animation magazine Tripwire has teamed up with one of its favourite cinemas, the historic Phoenix in East Finchley to bring Guillermo del Toro’s Hellboy (2004) and Pan’s Labyrinth (2006) back to the big screen. Here’s the details of how you… Read More ›
Ahead of New York Comic Con and MINECON Earth, Dark Horse, Mojang AB, and Microsoft have revealed the first art from the first instalment in a multi-project publishing partnership, Minecraft Volume One, featuring art by Sarah Graley. Minecraft Volume One… Read More ›