Episode 43 of Doctor Who: Panel to Panel is out, and in the section “The Pandorica Opens”, Jeremy Bement reviews the Doctor Who: The Eleventh Doctor Year Two #2, covers recent news and chats with writer Cavan Scott about… Read More ›
Features
The Really Heavy Greatcoat Review of the Year 2015
The Really Heavy Greatcoat by myself and Lancaster-based artist Nick Miller was published fairly regularly for about 20 years in alternative Lancaster print titles such as On The Beat and Off the Beat and online on virtual-lancaster.net. The strip’s last regular appearance in print was in the… Read More ›
Cup of O – Small Press Reviews
Hello! You find me still plundering through my enormous backlog of small press marvels – the first two titles here are from the Melksham Comic Con 2014 and the last is the first of my teetering pile of titles from Thought Bubble… Read More ›
The British Comics Industry: Still Alive and Kicking, Despite Troll Claims to the Contrary
Phil Boyce runs the Oink! blog, dedicated to the original, cheeky, innovative comic that once featured the best of British talent, as well as extra posts on every aspect of the world’s greatest comic, creator info, behind-the-scenes shenanigans and more. He recently posted… Read More ›
In Review – Dirty Rotten Comics Issue 6
Edited by Gary Clap and Kirk Campbell Art and Design by Gary Clap These people do not mess about. Back with another big old chunk of awesome comics anthology goodness are the creators from Dirty Rotten Comics in their sixth… Read More ›
Creators @ Thought Bubble 2015: Part 2 – Small Press
The ninth annual Thought Bubble Festival took place in Leeds over the week of 9-15 November 2015, however it is the huge two-day comic convention over the weekend of 14-15 November that the vast majority of punters and creators think… Read More ›
Awesome Comic Podcast Thought Bubble Special
Get the sherbets out and It’s the Awesome Comic Podcast‘s first convention special folks! Vince Hunt and Tony Esmond discuss their time at Thought Bubble Festival 2015 (unfortunately Dan couldn’t make it), give shout outs to the lovely people they met… Read More ›
Awesome Comics Podcast Episode 21: Comics Writer Sam Read
Who better to join the Awesome Comics Podcast crew for a chin wag than the writer of Exit Generation, Sam Read? Sam talks about how his brilliant SF action book came to be, his route into the world of making comics, the… Read More ›
Review – ‘Take It As A Compliment’ by Maria Stoian
Created by Maria Stoian Published by Singing Dragon Hardback/Full Colour. £14.99 Comics can cover all kind of subjects, a fact that I am sure I don’t need to tell you. Consequently, they can instil different feelings in the reader through… Read More ›
Creators @ Thought Bubble 2015 : Part 1 – Artists
The ninth annual Thought Bubble Festival took place in Leeds over the week of 9-15 November 2015, however it is the huge two day comic convention over the weekend of 14-15 November that the vast majority of punters and creators… Read More ›
Creating Nightmares: An interview with “Call of Duty” Lead Writer Craig Houston
A chat with Craig Houston, a Scottish writer, artist and musician with over 25 years experience in the video games and comic book industries…
In Review: Ron Turner’s “Space Ace” Volume 5
Out: NowPublisher: John LawrenceOriginally published by Atlas Publishing & Distributing Co. Ltd The Title: A 40 page full colour magazine reprinting two Space Ace stories from the mid 1950s: “The Nine-Bomb Menace” and “Magnetic Meteor”, plus an extensive interview with… Read More ›
Eagle Daze: The Life and Times of Leonard James Matthews – Part One
Leonard Matthews, General Managing Editor of Fleetway and the Eagle Group of Comics, was a “Creative Visionary”… but that, Roger Perry argues in his extensive ten part biography of the man which begins today on downthetubes, is only due to… Read More ›
In Review: Thought Bubble 2015
The culmination of the Thought Bubble Comics Arts Festival in Leeds was this last weekend and, as with previous years, it was a busy bustle of comics in all forms. I was there from the Friday night party to the… Read More ›
In Review: I Love This Part by Tillie Walden
Created by Tillie Walden Published by Avery Hill Publishing 68 pages The Story: Two girls are growing up in America. They are in school and are tied up in all that a life like this includes. They discover a friendship… Read More ›
In Review: MULP – Sceptre Of The Sun Issue 2
The second issue of writer Matt Gibbs and artist Sara Dunkerton’s five issue MULP: Sceptre Of The Sun, now being published by Improper Books, is being launched at Thought Bubble 2015. This anthropomorphic adventure series set in the 1930s follows a… Read More ›
In Review: Golden Campaign Volume III
Art and Story by Cristian Ortiz Daniel Martin – Co-Writer Alice Mazzilli – Calligraphy The Story: Monty and Caprille have joined a bunch of mercenaries. They really shouldn’t have, as they are far too young and inexperienced to stay alive… Read More ›
Chasing Shadows: An Interview with Warwick Fraser-Coombe
After recently both reading and loving the series Revenger: The Shadow Constabulary from creator Warwick Fraser-Coombe (read my review here) I decided to reach out to him and ask him about this incredibly well made and interesting book. His answers… Read More ›
52: Graeme Neil Reid’s Year In Time And Space
Just over a year ago artist Graeme Neil Reid, whose artwork has appeared in 2000AD, Judge Dredd Megazine, Radio Times, and The Dangerous Book Of Heroes, began to paint A6 watercolours of characters from Doctor Who. His intention was to… Read More ›
In Review: Night Post by Benjamin Read and Laura Trinder
Improper Book’s first hardback publication, Night Post, has been on limited release for some time now but it is just about to become available to a wider audience through Diamond. Writer Benjamin Read, of Porcelain, Butterfly Gate and the recent… Read More ›