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Death Sentence for Dundee! (courtesy of Montynero and Mike Dowling)
Death Sentence is a five issue series by Montynero and Mike Dowling which debuts this weekend at Dundee Comics Day Described as “the best idea I’ve seen for a comic in years” and “Genuinely original,” by none other than Mark… Read More ›
Treating Comics Seriously – Six Questions for Dr Chris Murray
Dr Chris Murray is a lecturer and programme convenor in English for Dundee University’s School of Humanities with research interests in comics, film and popular culture. He has contributed articles to the academic International Journal of Comic Art, Gothic Studies,… Read More ›
Dundee Commando exhibition open
A quick reminder about the Commando exhibition in Dundee Jeremy Briggs gave an advance plug for last month, which has now opened, in advance of Dundee Comics Day on 30th October. Marking the 50th anniversary of Commando, It’s in the… Read More ›
Private Eye marks 50th anniversary with special issue
Issue 1300 of Private Eye, on sale 26th October, will be a special issue marking its 50th birthday. This landmark event for the magazine – which has always featured cartoons and comic strips satirising British life and politics – is… Read More ›
A Choice Of New Who Sketches Up For Grabs
Scotch Corner artist Graeme Neil Reid is running a competition over on his I Got No Work Done Today Because… blog to win one of three new Doctor Who colour sketches that he has been displaying over the last week…. Read More ›
John Ryan Artwork Exhibition in Rye
Two characters that were created for the first issue of Eagle comic in April 1950 have entered the British public’s collective consciousness. The first is Eagle’s most well known character, the spaceman Dan Dare, but the other, whilst well known,… Read More ›
Latest Issue Of Eagle Times Now Available (Volume 24, Number Three)
Leslie Ashwell Wood was Eagle’s premier cutaway artist providing over 600 different painted cutaways for the weekly comic between 1950 and 1969. While some of these paintings have been reused in the recent Eagle reprint books published by Orion to… Read More ›
Historic Event told in Comic Strip Form
A gigantic comic strip depiction of the Battle of Wakefield drawn and written by artist John Welding, previously shown at Wakefield Museum as part of their ‘Battle of Wakefield 1460’ Exhibition, can be seen at the University of Leeds until… Read More ›
Steve Moore’s Somnium novel out in November
Comic creator Steve Moore — creator of such wonderful characters as Abslom Daak, Dalek Killer and Axel Pressbutton — has an intriguing new novel on the way from Somnium Press, with Strange Attractor Press. A prominent inclusion in Iain Sinclair’s 2006… Read More ›
Striker site down – but no early bath for the strip, says creator
Football comics seem to be getting it in the neck this month – after the demise of the print edition of Comic Football (due to return online later this year), fans have alerted us to say that the official… Read More ›
WebFinds: Girls Comics of Yesterday and Bunty’s British “Supergirl”
Researching a question from a downthetubes reader about a fondly-remembered British ‘Supergirl‘, I came across Girls Comics of Yesterday, a relatively new fan site dedicated to British girl comics of the past, looking at three of the most long lasting… Read More ›
Larry Hama Rolls Out for Action Force Roll Call
All The Cool Stuff has just announced the third Roll Out/ Roll Call, the UK Fan Show Convention dedicated to Transformers, Action Force and GI Joe – and that one of its star guests will be top US writer Larry… Read More ›
Comic workshops part of this year’s Bloomsbury Festival
Comic creators Steve Marchant and Sally Kindberg will be on hand to keep kids happy during this year’s Bloomsbury Festival in London. Five years after the first ever Bloomsbury Festival (Friday 21st – Sunday 23rd October, 2011), this annual celebration… Read More ›
Panel Borders moves nights, interviews David B, Kid Koala
Concluding the Panel Borders radio show’s month of war comics coverage and four years of broadcasts on Thursday evenings, Alex Fitch talks to French graphic novelist David B about his new book Black Paths, published by SelfMadeHero, which depicts a… Read More ›
Comics @ Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival
The Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival have been in touch to let us know about three comics related events taking place in Edinburgh and Glasgow in October 2011 as part of their festival. A Day in the Life:… Read More ›
Dundee Comics Day And Commando Art Exhibition
The fifth annual Dundee Comics Day will be taking place in the Tower Building of Dundee University on Sunday 30 October 2011 as part of the Dundee Literary Festival. This will include the Commando Battlelines exhibition of artwork from DC… Read More ›
Signup Books Century 21: Menace from Space line-up revealed
Some great strips lined up for the next Century 21 collection
Classical Comics goes Chinese!
(with thanks to Clive Bryant and Jon Haward): Classical Comics adaptation of Shakespeare’s tragedy, Macbeth, is to be re-published in China by its Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press, along with a number of other titles from the successful range…. Read More ›
Panel Borders: War – The Human Cost
Continuing radio show Panel Borders month about War Comics, they will broadcast a final panel discussion recorded at the ‘Comics and Conflicts’ conference at the Imperial War Museum in August tonight. Alex Fitch chairs a discussion on ‘The personal and… Read More ›