A gang of serial bank robbers has made their new home in Gotham in tonight’s episode of Gotham, “Red Hood”, on Channel 5. Meanwhile, Selina Kyle bonds with Barbara Kean at her apartment, and Fish Mooney attempts to reclaim her position… Read More ›
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Backwards Burd Head To Belfast for May MCM Convention
London comics group Backwards Burd is heading to Belfast on the 2nd – 3rd of May, spreading their slothy goodness at the King’s Hall Complex MCM convention. The quartet of Sajan Rai, Daniel de Sosa, Siobhan Alcaide and ShaneMelisse… Read More ›
Convention Report: North to Eden (EdenCon, that is)
While there have been comic events in Carlisle in the past, EdenCon is a new annual event – but that didn’t dissuade a good turnout of comic and film fans, cosplayers and gamers, despite the temptation to head elsewhere in Cumbria… Read More ›
Creators @ Edinburgh Comic Con 2015
The Edinburgh University Students Union at Potterow was a popular place on the weekend of 11/12 April 2015 as the Edinburgh Comic Con took over the building. The second year of the renamed event proved much more popular than the… Read More ›
British Comic Shop Releases (15th April 2015) – Doctor Who and Cold Mountain Bums!
Here’s our list of both British and US comics on sale this week in comic shops (from Wednesday 15th April 2015), complementing our monthly list of British graphic novel releases (April 2015 release list here). There are no less… Read More ›
Call For Papers: The Superhero Project: First Global Meeting
The 1st Global Conference on Superheroes will take place between Monday 7th September and Wednesday 9th September 2015 at Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom – and has just issued the following Call For Papers. ________________________________________ “Superman! Champion of the oppressed, the physical… Read More ›
Art of Doctor Who DWM Special Out Now
On sale now from all good newsagents is the absolutely brilliant Doctor Who Magazine Special Edition: The Art of Doctor Who, wrapped in a cover by US artist Mark Maddox. “This is how the story of Doctor Who unfolded in… Read More ›
A Lost Art: Queen’s Brian May Talks Stereoscope Revival
Some time in 1854, at 313 Oxford Street, the “London Stereoscope Company” was born, and under the leadership of Managing Partner George Swan Nottage, by 1856 the company had changed its name, to “The London Stereoscopic Company”, and finally in… Read More ›
Doctor Who: The Complete History Part Work enters Test Phase
Perhaps as a result of the success of their Doctor Who “Specials” the team behind Doctor Who Magazine have gone one stage further with a new joint project with part works publisher Hatchette – and have begin road testing Doctor… Read More ›
Doctor Who: The Series You’ll Never See
Would you like to start your weekend by reading an utterly insane and ridiculously expensive proposal I came up with to revamp Doctor Who, that I actually had the temerity to send to the BBC in 1993 – which included… Read More ›
Doctor Who Magazine Flashback: Comic Strip Submission Guidelines, May 1990
I’ve been digging around in the cupboards for things to show folk at EdenCon tomorrow in Carlisle for things to show folk besides the audio comics I edit for ROK Comics on my iPhone, and came across these comic… Read More ›
Doctor Who: Panel to Panel Interviews Andrew James, Clayton Hickman
Episode 27 of Doctor Who: Panel to Panel – a fantastic podcast from US comics fan Jeremy Bement devoted to the world of Doctor Who comics – has just been released online for your listening pleasure. “In my opinion this is one of the best… Read More ›
Webcomic Review – World of Grey
Written by Bobby Lucenti Art by Brian Vander Webcomic available for free at www.worldofgreycomic.com The Story: Waking in a world far advanced than the one he remembers and bound with a highly advanced exoskin of unknown origins and seemingly… Read More ›
“The BFG” – More Casting News, 2016 Release Date Set
As production gets underway in Vancouver, Walt Disney Studios has announced it will co-produce and co-finance Steven Spielberg‘s production of Roald Dahl‘s story The BFG, marking the three-time Academy Award winner’s first time directing a Disney-branded movie. Due for release in the… Read More ›
Edinburgh Comic Con: A Bird’s Eye View
In April 2014, I went to a rather small, poorly attended comic show called SBA at the Students Union that is part of Edinburgh University. I was lucky and I got to spend an inordinate amount of time chatting with… Read More ›
Dirty Rotten Comics Launch Event This Friday
The team behind Dirty Rotten Comics are having a launch event for Dirty Rotten Comics Issue 4 on Friday 17th April at the Horse and Stables pub opposite Lambeth North tube station. This bumper Spring 2015 anthology clocks in at just under a staggering hundred pages and features… Read More ›
“Dennis and Gnasher Blast in Beanotown”, the latest Beano-inspired game from DC Thomson
Recently launched by DC Thomson is Dennis and Gnasher Blast in Beanotown, a gaming app for mobile devices in which Beanotown’s mayor has banned all fun and grumpy adults patrol the streets. Players join Dennis and Gnasher in a battle… Read More ›
IS SHE AVAILABLE? project from Igor Goldkind combines comics, art and jazz
A ground-breaking new collection of Poetry, Illustration, Music and Movement by acclaimed comics and SF author Igor Goldkind featuring work by creators such as Bill Sienkiewicz, Rian Hughes, David Lloyd, Liam Sharp and Glenn Fabry is being published by Chameleon Publishing in both electronic form and… Read More ›
Daredevil “Man Without Fear” Costume Available Now in Marvel Heroes 2015
If like us, you tuned into Netflix this weekend watching all 13 episodes of Marvel’s Daredevil… then how about playing lots of Marvel Heroes 2015… as Daredevil, in this new costume inspired by Matt Murdock’s first costume, as depicted… Read More ›
Tonight’s Gotham on Channel 5: The Blind Fortune Teller
The young Bruce Wayne calls a board meeting to express his concerns about the direction of Wayne Enterprises. Elsewhere, James Gordon and Leslie head to circus for a pleasant night out, but all hell breaks loose when a circus is… Read More ›