Created by Jens K Styve The Story: Issue One opens on a skull-faced man wearing a dunce’s cap. He’s feeling a little under the weather. His pal, who looks like a cross between a fish and a geography teacher, tells… Read More ›
Features
In Review: My Friend Dahmer (2017)
Friends for Life… My Friend Dahmer is, directed by Marc Meyers) is an adaptation of John “ Derf” Backderf’s graphic memoire that tells of his high school friendship with Jeffrey Dahmer, who a mere three weeks after graduation, began a… Read More ›
Sneak Peek: Slaughter Hawk by Dave Broughton
Slaughter Hawk Created by Dave Broughton Full Colour – Perfect bound – £7.50 The Story: A dark hero stalks a dystopian city of the future. Is he merely an urban legend or is he the hero that the people of… Read More ›
In Review: Daddy Day
Created by Samuel C. Williams Published by Good Comics I just got a short preview of this cracking new book by Samuel. Some comics encapsulate the mood or the feeling of a particular period of your life. That time that… Read More ›
Zoom Rockman mind probed for latest Lakes International Comic Art Festival Podcast!
Beano cartoonist and Lakes International Comic Art Festival patron Zoom Rockman is the guest of the organisation’s podcast this week. Zoom is a young creator who started producing comics from a young age, He appeared in the Beano at age… Read More ›
In Review: The Lady and the Lost World
Written and lettered by Ian Sharman Illustrated by Hakan Aydin Cover art by Loles Romero Published by Markosia – out 25th June 2018 101 pages – Full Colour The Story: Emmaline ‘Emmy’ Harcourt is prone to wearing twin sets and… Read More ›
In Review: Anxiety Me by Nicole Bates
Written and illustrated by Nicole Bates The Book: “Anxiety Me is a personal journey, my journey,” says Nicole. “When anxiety attacks it leaves you feeling like you are the lost at sea. Sometimes you find the shore, sometimes you… Read More ›
Creating Comics: Atomeka publisher Dave Elliott’s plan to save the US comics industry
Over the last few years, Atomeka Press publisher Dave Elliott has stood by and frustratingly watched as the US comic book industry continues to devour itself like the mythical Ouroboros, the snake that ate its own tail. Last week, he… Read More ›
In Review: Bloke’s Progress by Kevin Jackson and Hunt Emerson
By Kevin Jackson (writer) and Hunt Emerson (Artist) Published by Knockabout Comics ISBN 9780861662715 £12.99 Published May 24th 2018 The Book: Darren Bloke is an ordinary, hard-working stiff until a lottery win changes – and ruins – his life. He… Read More ›
How so many British Adventure Comics became just one – Eagle – in the 1990s
Over on his brilliant Rusty Staples site, 2000AD writer Michael Carroll has begun a series of articles tracing the history of British comics, creating a series of “family trees” showing various mergers and more down the years. It’s something Alan… Read More ›
In Preview – “SUTRA: Songs from the World of Om” by Andy Barron
Created by Andy Barron The Story: The creatures of the World of Om return and navigate the landscape that in many ways mirrors our own. This is a world of beauty and savagery. It reveals much about these characters and… Read More ›
Marvel UK Comics That Never Were: Rourke versus Wolverine, versus… Monark Starstalker?
That time Wolverine battled Monark Starstalker… or might have
Creating Comics: Why British publishers attempts to launch a graphic novels line keep failing, and how to do it better
Are there better ways to publish graphic novels?
Doctor Who Panel to Panel Podcast reaches 100th episode
Episode 100 of Doctor Who: Panel to Panel, the podcast produced by Jeremy Bement about Doctor Who comics, is live, and I’m honoured to have been asked to take part in this landmark episode. Jeremy has racked up an impressive… Read More ›
In Praise of… Comic Artist Harry Bishop, creator of “Gun Law” and more
I recently did some brief research on the work of British newspaper strip artist Harry Bishop, perhaps best known for drawing Gun Law, based on the TV series Gunsmoke, starring James Arness as Matt Dillon, for the Daily Express. While… Read More ›
In Review: Solo – A Star Wars Story
I never felt the need to watch a film that told me Han Solo’s back story because the character was such a cliché that I felt that I already knew it. For me, Star Wars didn’t exactly have depth. As an… Read More ›
In Preview/ Review: Bella at the Bar Volume One
Written by Jenny McDade Art by John Armstrong On Sale: 12th July 2018, 114 Pages ISBN: 9781781086254 Publisher: Rebellion Publishing/ Treasury of British Comics The Book: Bella’s gymtastic adventure begins here! Bella Barlow is a young orphan with ambitions to… Read More ›
In Review: Space Ace Volume 10
Art and Stories by Ron TurnerColour by John RidgwayPublished by John Lawrence The Book: 44-page anthology (extra pages this issue) comprising three stories featuring “Space Ace” by Ron Turner, colourised and re-mastered by John Ridgway. The title includes the second… Read More ›
Roads Not Taken: Edmond E. Good’s “Knight Masters”
Canadian illustrator, writer and co-author of more than a dozen comics Edmond Elbridge Good (1st July 1910 – 22nd September 1991) created the Rex Baxter feature for Bell Publishing in 1942 and drew the Scorchy Smith strip (taking over from… Read More ›
Cosplay 101: Conventions and Cosplay Etiquette by Holly Rose Swinyard (Part Two)
Wearing costumes for fun is far from new and costume parades were an integral part of early comic and other media conventions. But cosplay as a concept, in many ways a whole separate world to comic and other media fandom,… Read More ›