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Boeing has announced its investment in Reaction Engines Limited, a leader in advanced propulsion systems based in Oxfordshire, United Kingdom. Reaction Engines’ technology will contribute to the next generation of hypersonic flight and space access vehicles. Reaction Engines is known… Read More ›
The covers for Rebellion’s Treasury of British Comics new collections this autumn and winter have been revealed – Misty Volume Three, The Thirteenth Floor, Black Max, El Mestizo, and Ken Reid’s Creepy Creations. All these collections can be ordered from… Read More ›
This week’s 2000AD (available from all good newsagents and UK comic shops now, and various digital platforms) sees the start of a new “Judge Dredd” story from Michael Carroll and Staz Johnson, pitting the lawman against media machinations and the… Read More ›
US publisher Dark Horse has announce Criminy, a new graphic novel from Roger Langridge, the Eisner and Harvey award-winning creator of SNARKED, and Ryan Ferrier, the critically acclaimed writer of Kennel Block Blues. Roger and Ryan unite to co-create this… Read More ›
There’s just one month to go until Portsmouth welcomes its first Comic Con to the Guildhall (5th – 6th May 2018), and the stellar line-up of guests and the range of family activities are not to be missed. Organised in… Read More ›
Sea Hero Quest, an innovative virtual reality game co-designed by an architect at Northumbria University which aims to help the fight against dementia has been shortlisted for a BAFTA award. The winners of the British Academy Games Awards will be… Read More ›
Charlie Adlard, artist on The Walking Dead and and co-creator of many of the major characters that have been used in AMC’s hit TV show of the same name was at Waterstones in Tottenham Court Road, London on Monday, in… Read More ›
Dudley-based Aston’s Auctioneers is offering incredibly exciting star lot for their 3rd May Film & Music Memorabilia Auction – William Hartnell‘s original copy of the script for the first ever episode of Doctor Who. Thrown out by the actor who… Read More ›
By Adam Lumb Publisher: Rich and Strange Press ISBN 9781999957704 The Book: There are monsters in the lake. War is coming. Spies are everywhere. This is witness protection… in hell. The Tide is female led heroic fantasy horror-thriller, and oversized… Read More ›
Gosport’s Royal Navy Submarine Museum has announced a Subaquatic Steampunk Weekend this September. Offering six outstanding performers and the best steampunk artists artwork on display to amaze and inspire, the event also includes a steampunk market areas to peruse and… Read More ›
Got a favourite British comics Podcast? The 2000AD Thrillcast perhaps, or the Awesome Comics Podcast? Panel Borders? Newcomers like the Lakes International Comic Art Festival Podcast? There are a huge range of of great podcasts out there produced here in… Read More ›
This isn’t a review of the latest issue of SJ McCune’s The Human Beings in the strictest sense. Think of this article as more of a discussion on the connection a comic made with the reader (me) after a spectacular… Read More ›
The Cardiff Indie Comic Expo – Cardiff’s original independent comic show – is back on Saturday 2nd June 2018, 2018 and it returns to its original venue of the Mercure Holland House Hotel on Newport Road. CICE is an annual… Read More ›
Well, there’s no end of great comic-related news today. After months of planning behind the scenes, the launch of ‘Create the Break’ has been announced – a professional development course for emerging comic artists based in the West Midlands. Marvel… Read More ›
The Simpsons co-creator and cartoonist David Silverman will be joining the line-up at this year’s Lakes International Comic Art Festival weekend in Kendal (12th – 14th October 2018). David will be on stage during the weekend chatting with cartoonist and fellow animator Steve… Read More ›
The Book Palace is to publish a limited edition of Adventures of The Three Musketeers, collecting the work of the brilliant Chilean comic artist Arturo Del Castillo, first published in Film Fun and Lion in the 1960s. Collected in a… Read More ›
It’s here! Aces Weekly Volume 33 has now opened its doors, offering superb-quality, high-talent, low-cost, original cyberspace comics. The team are still offering the same incredible deal of 20 pages a week for £1 in any currency because they can, and… Read More ›
Episode 98 of Jeremy Bement‘s excellent podcast Doctor Who: Panel to Panel is live and is well worth a download for its interview with writer James Peaty, who was just announced as the writer of the three-issue series The Road… Read More ›
Titan Comics and BBC Studios recently announced The Road To The Thirteenth Doctor – a three-part comic event beginning this July and leading into Titan’s all-new Thirteenth Doctor ongoing comic series launching this autumn. The Road To The Thirteenth Doctor features… Read More ›
Frank Langford is a familiar name when it comes to comics having illustrated fan favourites like Thunderbirds’ Lady Penelope in the 1960s and BBC TV’s Doctor Who in the 1970s, yet when Gordon Blows interviewed him in the third issue… Read More ›