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Oozing Talent, new volume of Aces Weekly is up, running and blasting from your nearest screen!
Volume 43 of digital comics anthology Aces Weekly is running now – a seven-week, seven-part voyage of wonder offering a global reach of terrific talent including Chris Geary, Jok LP, Carlos Pascoa, Rodolfo Santullo, Anthony Smith, Ben Bernard-Smith, Tobias Taitt… Read More ›
John Russell Fearn’s SF, including Golden Amazon stories, back in print
If you’ve been enjoying the adventures of the Golden Amazon, drawn by Ron Turner, in Spaceship Away, then you may be interested to know that a number of novels starring the warrior space heroine written by John Russell Fearn are… Read More ›
In Memoriam: SF author Mike Resnick
Author Lou Anders pays tribute to award-winning American science fiction writer and editor Michael Diamond Resnick, whose death on 10th January 2020 was announced by his daughter Laura last week after battling cancer. A much-loved creator, he won five Hugo… Read More ›
Don’t miss out on this limited edition Airfix calendar!
The Airfix Collectors’ Club has produced their Airfix Vintage Calendar for 2020 featuring 13 Airfix box top paintings by Eagle and Swift artist Roy Cross
Reality TV takes a grisly turn in Markosia’s “Stay Alive”
Coming soon from Markosia is Stay Alive, a new graphic novel created and written by James Harberson and Mackie Wildwood, pencilled, inked and coloured by Stephen Baskerville
Limited edition Wally Wood exhibition catalogue now available to order from Festival International de la Bande Dessinée d’Angoulême
Three of the major exhibitions at this year’s Festival International de la Bande Dessinée d’Angoulême in France are accompanied by a substantial, deluxe, limited-edition hardcover catalogues, including the Wallace “Wally” Wood exhibition
Crowdfunding Spotlight: The Penned Guin – Vision by Alan Henderson
Just launched on Kickstarter is a campaign for a print edition of the wonderfully silly, critically-acclaimed comic strip The Penned Guin by Alan Henderson, an all new collection titled Vision, comprising of the daily cartoons that appeared on-line throughout 2019…. Read More ›
Brian Bolland’s iconic “Amazing Heroes” Judge Dredd cover included in ComicLink auction next month
Published in 1984, Fantagrahics Amazing Heroes magazine (#52), ran a Judge Dredd cover by Brian Bolland which on publication promoted a “European Invasion” of US comics – and the art itself is up for auction next month at ComicLink
New Essential Judge Dredd graphic novel line launches in September
The ultimate introduction to the ultimate lawman – Essential Judge Dredd – launches this September
ComicScene Announces upcoming Comic Creators Directory
How would you like to be in the new ComicScene Comic Creators Directory in 2020? It’s free for creators to do so from UK, Ireland, Europe, the United States, Australia and Canada
In Review: Doctor Who – Spyfall, Part Two
Reviewed by Paul Mount In part two of Spyfall, a terrifying plan to destroy humanity is about to reach fruition. Can the Doctor and her friends escape multiple traps and defeat a deadly alliance? Now and again a Doctor Who… Read More ›
Latest Doctor Who Magazine “Deluxe Edition offers “Past Masters” comics treat!
The Deluxe Edition of the latest issue of Doctor Who Magazine, out now in WHSmith stores in a card-backed envelope, has a fantastic “bonus item” for comic strip fans in the form of a 32-page “Past Masters” collection, reprinting strips… Read More ›
Latest issues of FANSCENE now available as print editions
FANSCENE #3 and 4, published by David Hathaway-Price, also curator of the brilliant Classic UK Comics Zines web site, are now available as Special Edition Print versions.
World Illustration Awards 2020 opens doors to comics and graphic novel entries
The World Illustration Awards is open for entries until 18th February 2020 and this year has added an “Alternative Publishing” category, enabling entries from comic creators. Presented by The Association of Illustrators (AOI) in partnership with US-based Directory of Illustration,… Read More ›
Born This Day: Blondie Creator Murat Bernard “Chic” Young
American cartoonist Murat Bernard “Chic” Young, the creator of the comic strip Blondie was born today, 9th January 1901. Other strips by Chic include his first regular work, the short-lived The Affairs of Jane in the 1920s, about a struggling film actress who… Read More ›
Netflix trails Locke & Key, show debuts next month
Netflix have released a trailer for their upcoming series Locke & Key, based on the critically acclaimed comic from US publisher IDW Publishing, created by Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodríguez
New Year, New Licensing Agent for Dragon Ball in the UK and Eire
Toei Animation Europe, the EMEA media company in charge of the distribution and exploitation of Toei Animation’s Japanese animated series in Europe, has appointed Reemsborko Ltd as the UK and Eire licensing agent for the whole Dragon Ball franchise (Dragon… Read More ›
In Review: War Cars
What’s that? You don’t remember “War Cars”, the toy sensation of the early 1980s, which Mallet Comics licensed for a short lived return to the publishing world? Written by “Ian Furman” and drawn by “Carlo Ferringo”, the good news is that a digital collection of this fast-paced action SF title is now available, painstakingly restored from the original comics by Bryan Coyle…
Top-selling thriller writer James Swallow pens new Commando comic, out this week
Japanese soldiers versus crocodiles in the mangrove swamps of Ramree Island? Foreign Legion duels to the death? Terror on an isolated sea fort, and a coward in the cockpit? It’s all happening in the latest issues of DC Thomson Media’s… Read More ›