British comic and creator news, book news, media news. If it’s news, it’s here.
Immediate Media, publishers of Doctor Who Adventures and other licensed comics and magazines, launches Mr Men and Little Miss Magazine today, a title based on the hugely popular books by Roger Hargreaves. On the newsstands from today (2nd October 2013)… Read More ›
Registration is now open for Comics Forum 2013: Small Press and Undergrounds, which will be running at Leeds Central Library on the 21st and 22nd of November. This year features a fantastic lineup of speakers and papers, including a talk… Read More ›
ITV Studios and New Zealand-based Pukeko Pictures have announced the voice cast for Thunderbirds Are Go!, the new version of the classic Gerry Anderson series Thunderbirds. As we’ve previously reported, although Egmont will be publishing a Thunderbirds collection re-publishing classic… Read More ›
David Lloyd’s fab digital anthology Aces Weekly celebrates its first birthday this week with a knees up tonight at the Star and Garter, 62, Poland Street, Soho, London from 6.00 – 11.30pm. David Lloyd, Dave Hine, Kev Hopgood, Steve Marchant… Read More ›
The latest issue of Eagle Times (Volume 26, Number Three) is now available from the Eagle Society. (Autumn 2013 Contents ‘Laurence Dunn – Maritime Artist’, reviews the career of Eagle‘s third most prolific cutaway artist (after L. Ashwell Wood and J…. Read More ›
For those of you who think CLiNT was the first British comic to think of employing comedians to write comic strips, think again. Quite apart from the numerous works of famous British raconteurs such as Bob Monkhouse to various comics… Read More ›
The latest issue of Bleeding Cool Magazine (#6), on sale now in all good comic shops, includes two features of note for fans of British comic creators, the issue headlining US publisher Boom!’s new Robocop series with an exclusive sneak-peak…. Read More ›
Rare pictures of Marvel UK’s Death’s Head II mask – and a visit to the offices by Zoe Ball recalled
Active Images, run by British creator Richard Starkings, have been busy this month. Not only do they have Elephantmen #54 on sale and are busy plugging the Tenth Anniversary Collection of Hip Flask: Unnatural Selection, but the company has also… Read More ›
By now you’ve already heard all about London’s Orbital Comics amazing exhibition featuring previously unseen photographs of Sylvester McCoy’s beloved companion, Sophie Aldred aka ‘Ace’ … But if you haven’t, then you only have a few days left to get… Read More ›
We’ve got word that Image Comics’ The Art of Charlie Adlard at will now get its official launch at the Lakes International Comic Art Festival and not in New York Comic Con as originally planned – another great reason to… Read More ›
Stripped was the 2013 Edinburgh International Book Festival’s major comics strand which featured many talks and workshops with comics creators both British and from overseas. Stripped had its own blog which featured book reviews, previews of events and post event… Read More ›
Fresh from major book assaults on Hong Kong and New York, DC Thomson’s Commando books supply the ammunition for fine artist David Mach, who currently has an exhibition at the Lochgelly Centre in Lochgelly, Fife. The work featured is inspired… Read More ›
It is that time of the year again when calendars are appearing in the shops and for the third year running Waverley Books have released a Commando calendar. As in the previous two years the Commando Calendar 2014 has 13… Read More ›
John Ridgway, Ian Kennedy, Simon Furman, Sydney Jordan and many other great British comic creators will be guests at this year’s Dundee Comics Day on 26th – 27th October. Here’s the full schedule for the event, which is part of… Read More ›
The world of comic books is caught in an endless cycle of regurgitated ideas, so Con Artist Entertainment, the team behind Project: Overwatch project, argue the only real solution to this is to move away from the overused character and… Read More ›
Stripped was the 2013 Edinburgh International Book Festival’s major comics strand which featured many talks and workshops with comics creators both British and from overseas. Stripped had its own blog which featured book reviews, previews of events and post event… Read More ›
Creators and former staff who were part of Marvel UK and its publications will appear at the next London Film and Comic Con at Earl’s Court on Saturday 5th October. Organiser Mike Conroy hopes the panel will prove a celebration… Read More ›
Stripped was the 2013 Edinburgh International Book Festival’s major comics strand which featured many talks and workshops with comics creators both British and from overseas. Stripped had its own blog which featured book reviews, previews of events and post event… Read More ›
Jamie Anderson, the son of Gerry Anderson, has released a light-hearted video that explains just why he and author MG Harris decided not to go the traditional route when it came to publishing Gemini Force One – and turned… Read More ›