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Crowdfunding Spotlight: Tripwire Magazine Returns!
A crazy plan? It might just work!
Original “Lost World” art sells for a monster sum!
An original art work by prolific New Zealand illustrator Harry Rountree attracts a major price
Sneak Peek: Cover Me – The Vintage Art of Pan Books: 1950-1965
A fantastic book presenting the very best Pan Books covers is on its way from Telos Publishing
Latest Comic Art Festival Podcast offers full LICAF Live Preview
Ian Loxam and Nikki Bates are back in their hot seats wit a great trailer for #LICAFLive next week
Sir Paul McCartney re-releases updated “Rupert and The Frog Song” animated short, re-mastered to celebrate 100 years of Rupert the Bear
It’s an ear worm in your head now, isn’t it. Sing away, now!
Rare promotional Eagle offered on eBay
A sought-after British comics collectible is up for grabs…if you can afford it.
Comic Creator Spotlight: ComicScene editor and Tony Foster
Tony Foster produced the comic Atomic in the late 1980s and early 90s to great critical acclaim. Then he simply disappeared from comics into the world of family and work. 30 years later, after successfully editing ComicScene magazine since early 2018, he’s… Read More ›
Howl’s This! New Anthony Petrie “Wolfman” Posters from Vice Press
Howl’s this for a terrific poster (sorry, it’s Friday)
Coming Soon – Panel Borders: Ladies of the Lakes
On next week’s Panel Borders comics radio show, Alex Fitch interviews two women working in the comic book industry, in Q and As recorded at previous Lakes International Comic Art Festivals. Deborah Tate discusses her former role as editor at… Read More ›
SHIFT, a new British strip anthology, gets launch date
A new British anthology nears release
Lakes Festival Focus 2020: Cartoonist and Caricaturist Jason Chatfield
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 ›
Crowdfunding Spotlight: Brawler #2 from Time Bomb Comics
Another fantastic-looking British anthology is on its way
In Review: Gentlemind Volume One
Examining the cost of ambition and the consequences of the compromises it demands…
Meet the zombies of “Call of Duty Black Ops Cold War” (no, no, not the Lead Writer…)
Zombies aplenty lurking in the shadows!
Lakes Festival Focus 2020: Illustrator and Writer Sarah McIntyre
A smashing chat with an uber-talented artist and writer!
“MAD Magazine” may be a pale shadow of its former self, but at least, hopefully, there will be “Claptrap”!
Happy Birthday, MAD Magazine! It’s a shame DC Comics decided to effectively bring this once great title to an ignominious end earlier this year.
Now We Are Eight: Aces Weekly celebrates digital birthday
Happy Birthday to Aces Weekly – and congratulations to all those who bring it out way!
Creepy Commandos, an SF adventure – and the new Commando Calendar out, too!
There’s something for everyone in this brand-new set of Commando comics (Issues 5371 – 5374), on sale this week from DC Thomson Media, a set that marks the debut of award-winning comics writer Colin Maxwell to the creative team: from… Read More ›
LICAF Live reveals free online “Thinking Comics” line-up, launching next week
LICAF Live, the virtual version of the Lakes International Comic Art Festival running 9th – 11th October 2020, includes a thought-provoking “Thinking Comics” programme that promises a host of lively presentations by some of comics’ leading thinkers. Comics Laureate Hannah Berry, Elyon’s, Paul… Read More ›