Every year, in the countdown to the Lakes International Comic Art Festival in October, this year running as the virtual LICAF LIVE, we bring you a series of interviews with both guests and participants in the Comics Clock Tower (This… Read More ›
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In Review: The Day of the Triffids (Blu-ray)
Does the new Blu-ray of this 1980s BBC series past muster?
Create an “Animal Crossing” Comic Hero with LICAF!
Design a comics-inspired costume and win a prize!
DC Thomson and John Leng Annuals documented
Find out more about a new dedicated resource dedicated to one aspect of British comics history
“Charley’s War” Battle cover, “Halo Jones” art offered in auction
Two pieces of art from two very different classic British comics are up for sale
Latest Rok of the Reds project gets a commercial sponsor!
Continuing a British football comic tradition, Rok of the Reds gets an unusual backer!
Comic Art Festival Podcast – Bootleg Editions Available Now!
The team at the Lakes International Comic Art Festival Podcast have gone for a bit of a mix tape/ jam style over the past two episodes, the regular team stepping back as Pete Taylor and Mike Williams lead “The Bootleg… Read More ›
Like cats? Why not take part in a feline-themed Game Jam?
Game developers with a passion for cats are being invited to take part in a Game Jam this Autumn. Organised by leading feline welfare charity Cats Protection and Payload Studios via its Tentacle Zone initiative, the Game Jam takes place… Read More ›
Crowdfunding Spotlight: Sentinel #4 set to send you screaming!
A new girls horror comic from the Sentinel team? Worth a look…
LICAF LIVE – fuller free online Comic Art Festival programme revealed
More free online festival plans unveiled!
“Without Borders” Comics Contest Launched
Fumetto Comic Festival Luzern, Switzerland, has launched its annual comics competition for 2021
London’s Cartoon Museum set to re-open
The Cartoon Museum will re-open its doors to the public on Thursday 17th September, after nearly six months of enforced closure due to Coronavirus Pandemic restrictions. “We’re very happy to announce we’re re-opening our doors to the public, said director… Read More ›
Get Ready for Super Wednesday! 2000AD clears decks for new “jump on” Prog, Judge Dredd Megazine hits 30 – and Battle is back!
Hold on to your tin hats, there’s action and celebration a-plenty ahead this week from 2000AD and the Treasury of British Comics!
Conan, Dan Dare and more celebrated in latest free-to-download FANSCENE
Another terrific “love letter to British comics fandom”, available now
Daleks! animated series announcement is great news for more than one reason
Great news for Dalek fans, who are legion…
Lakes Festival Focus 2020: Metaphrog
A catch up with two wonderful comic creators
Who Guards the Guardian’s Graphic Novels?
Sean Michael Wilson feels there’s something lacking in The Guardians’s graphic novel coverage…
Lakes Festival Focus 2020: Graphic Novelist Sayra Begum
Every year, in the countdown to the Lakes International Comic Art Festival in October, this year running as the virtual LICAF LIVE, we bring you a series of interviews with both guests and participants in the Comics Clock Tower (This… Read More ›
Coming Soon from Anderson Entertainment: new Spy-Fi audio drama series, First Action Bureau
Action and adventure in 2068? Hang on, that sounds familiar!
First Look: Elric – The Eternal Champion, coming in January
More Elric on its way from Titan Comics in 2021!