We round off our “Lakes Bound” interviews to highlight the guest list for this weekend’s Lakes International Comic Art Festival with a very special artist, one who I have worked with many times down the years (and hope at… Read More ›
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Lakes Festival Focus 2014: Artist Lew Stringer
The Lakes International Comic Art Festival starts tomorrow and I’m delighted that, despite a punishing work schedule, Beano and Doctor Who cartoonist and writer Lew Stringer found time to answer my questions about his work and creating comics. Lew (who I’ve… Read More ›
Panel Borders: Pat Mills’ Great War comics
Continuing a month of shows about war comics, on today’s Panel Borders radio show Alex Fitch talks to Pat Mills, one of the acclaimed masters of the genre. Alex and Pat discuss the completion of Titan Books’ reprints of… Read More ›
Lakes Festival Focus 2014: Metaphrog
It’s almost here! The Lakes International Comic Art Festival starts on Friday, and we have just three more interviews with guests to run. Metaphrog are writer and illustrator duo John Chalmers and Sandra Marrs. Their Louis graphic novels have… Read More ›
Arena: The Crunch is NOW!
When I heard that Bear Alley Books had obtained a license to reprint a vintage DC Thomson adventure story, I was beside myself with excitement. When I found out that it was from The Crunch, my inner child… Read More ›
London Super Comic Convention announces first guests for 2015 event
British comic creators Charlie Adlard and Ian Churchill are among the first guests to be announced for the 2015 London Super Comic Convention, taking place 14th-15th March at the Excel Centre. Joining them will be Turkish comic book artist… Read More ›
British Comic Shop Comic Releases (15th October 2014) – Twelfth Doctor #1 Released
Here’s a list of comics – both US and UK releases – on sale in specialist UK comic shops from today, Wednesday 15th October 2014, courtesy of First Age Comics, Lancaster. We’ve picked out the titles published by British publishers in bold… Read More ›
British Comic Award judges announced
The judges for this year’s third British Comic Awards have just been announced and include comics writer and TV chat show host Jonathan Ross, film director Jonathan Entwistle and Suzy Varty, a comics creator and tutor known for her work in the… Read More ›
Lakes Festival Focus 2014: Beano artist Kev F Sutherland
The Lakes International Comic Art Festival is almost upon us – in fact, it’s next weekend (17th – 19th October 2014). In the run up to the event, which has already taken over the Cumbrian town of Kendal with comics exhibitions, warm… Read More ›
Captain America writer Jonathan Maberry to make UK comics festival debut in Birmingham in 2015
The recently-announced 2015 Birmingham Comic Festival, whose line-up already includes the UK debut of top artist Lucio Parrillo, has just announced another exclusive: the first UK comic event appearance of New York Times bestselling and multiple Bram Stoker Award-winning author… Read More ›