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Continuing a month of shows about comic book creators who have used online fundraising to launch various titles, Alex Fitch talks to Amanda Gomes and Julie Wright about their webcomic Riven Seal – Ars Ianua, which is hopefully being collected as a… Read More ›
David Roach, who in addition to be a terrific artist on strips such as Doctor Who and “Judge Dredd” has also written several books, including Aarrgghh!! It’s War: The Best War Comic Cover Art, has penned a new art book focusing on… Read More ›
So on Monday morning, Christopher Muscat, one of the team who run the highly-regarded Malta Comic Convention, involved me in a comics meme… Which led to some great artists drawing new versions of some wonderful, if obscure, British comic characters. As… Read More ›
Despite some patchy rain, over two hundred comic fans happily attended the inaugural Lancaster Comics Day at Lancaster Library on Sunday, organised by Friends of Lancaster Library. The event – promoted with art by local cartoonist Nick Miller – was a success for… Read More ›
The first annual Lancaster Comics Day was a huge success, proving that a comics centric event can draw healthy crowd sizes, have comics professionals mingling with small press and retailers and talk intelligently about the medium. Held on a… Read More ›
Children (of all ages) will find the amazing world of comics to discover and explore at the Family Zone, part of this year’s Lakes International Comic Art Festival (Saturday 17th – Sunday 18th October 2015). Special events and workshops will offer a… Read More ›
Debuting earlier this year, the Birmingham Comics Festival made good on its promise: to put the second city fairly and squarely back on the UK comic convention map, placing comics and their fans at the absolute heart of all its events…. Read More ›
Typically, of course, it’s raining cats and dogs, but Britain’s finest weather casters inform us things will improve later – and everything is now indoors. The fun starts at 1100 at Lancaster Library with a “Breaking Into Comics” panel with… Read More ›
Cavan Scott and George Mann are among the creators involved in a special issue of Titan Comics Twelfth Doctor Doctor Who comic, which will be on sale at San Diego Comic-Con next month. Drawn by Rachael Stott and coloured by Ivan Nunes,… Read More ›
Top comics artist Glenn Fabry has easily secured funding for his planned Sketchbook 3 book project, which will feature over 40 full colour pages of never seen before exciting images by the artist perhaps best known for his work… Read More ›
The Toronto Comic Arts Festival has announced the outline of its 2015 trips to England and Japan, to exhibit at festivals in both countries and fulfil their mandate of promoting Canadian comics culture on the world stage. As we previously reported, TCAF have partnered… Read More ›
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Up for auction with proceeds being paid to Hero Initiative now is Dave Gibbons one off diptych artwork entitled ‘Whaat??’, commissioned for the Image Duplicator exhibition in 2013 in London to coincide with the Roy Lichtenstein exhibition at the Tate Modern… Read More ›
Bonhams Entertainment Memorabilia Sale, taking place on 24 June at Bonhams Knightsbridge, features a varied selection of lots with interesting connections to the silver screen and television, including James Bond and Doctor Who items, as well as some Gerry Anderson-related… Read More ›
Continuing a month of shows about comic book creators who have used crowd funding to launch various titles on Britain’s only regularly radio broadcast comics show, Alex Fitch, with the help of guest presenter Nicola Streeten, discusses the crowd-funding campaign for the… Read More ›
The Phoenix Comic – the brilliant children’s comic published by David Fickling Comics – has extended its distribution a step further and is now on sale in selected Waterstones bookshops. The Phoenix is a weekly story comic for children, packed… Read More ›
Brett Uren, the creator of the acclaimed Torsobear project, has re-launched his bid for funding a second volume of stories on Kickstarter, his enthusiasm undimmed after an ambitious bid to secure £13,500 earlier in the year fell short of target, despite… Read More ›
Here’s our guide to new comics and graphic on sale in British comic shops today (Wednesday 8th June 2015), complementing our monthly list of new British graphic novels and comic collections (June 2015 list here). New Readers: Jump-on 2000AD this week! Three… Read More ›
DOCTOR WHO: THE TENTH DOCTOR #11 Writer: Nick Abadzis Artist: Elena Casagrande Ink Assistant: Michelle Pasta Layout Assistant: Giorgia Sposito Colour: Arianna Florean Publisher: Titan Comics On Sale: Wednesday 10th June 2015 The Book: New Yorkers Cindy and Gabby have a falling… Read More ›
Titan Comics has released the brand-new trailer for Doctor Who: Four Doctors five-part weekly summer event written by Paul Cornell and illustrated by Neil Edwards, which stars Tenth, Eleventh and Twelfth Doctors and their comics companions. The weekly event, running… Read More ›
Doctor Who Adventures Issue 3 is set to materialise on planet Earth on 18th June and the team behind the revamped comic are getting ready to go Ood Crazy! In this issue’s comic strip, “Doctor In A Bottle” drawn by… Read More ›