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• A Step Back in Time: Dan Dare Tooth Powder Cards

  By John Freeman on July 1, 2023

  

  Many might think licensing comic characters is a modern phenomena, but you couldn’t be more wrong

• In Review: Armed with Madness – The Surreal Leonora Carrington by Mary and Bryan Talbot

  By James Bacon on July 1, 2023

  

  Review by James Bacon The Book: Reluctant muse and feminist champion… society heiress and rebel refugee… the last of the Surrealists: Leonora Carrington played many roles in her long and extraordinary life. Renouncing her privileged upbringing in pre-war England for… Read More ›

• Tony Hancock graphic novel event lined up for London’s Cartoon Museum

  By John Freeman on June 30, 2023

  

  Join the team behind the new, powerful graphic novel exploring the life of comedian Tony Hancock

• Best of British magazine celebrates 85 years of BEANO

  By John Freeman on June 30, 2023

  

  The July edition of the long-running nostalgia magazine, Best of British, features an affectionate and wholesome tribute to The Beano

• A Potted History of early British Spider-Man comics – Part One

  By John Freeman on June 30, 2023 • ( 1 )

  

  A quickfire guide to Spider-Man’s earliest appearances in Britain, from “Out of this World” to Mighty World of Marvel”

• Cambridge University hosts major academic Comic Conference, “Better Living Through Comics”, next month

  By John Freeman on June 30, 2023

  

  A major academic conference poses the question “Do comics have a role to play in wellbeing?” next month

• Paul Cuvelier, creator of “Corentin”, biography on its way from Les Impressions Nouvelles

  By John Freeman on June 30, 2023

  

  A new biography about an acclaimed yet troubled Belgian illustrator is on its way

• Learn how to publish comics, from the publishers of the new Quantum anthology

  By John Freeman on June 29, 2023

  

  Time Bomb Comics have launched a free Patreon as part of their Quantum comic initiative

• Cartoon Capers a-plenty at the Waterside Arts Festival in July

  By John Freeman on June 28, 2023

  

  Cartoon craziness ahead in Hythe, next month, co-ordinated by the Cartoonists’ Club of Great Britain

• Robert Harrop Beano and Dandy figures offered en masse in upcoming auction

  By John Freeman on June 28, 2023 • ( 1 )

  

  Some smashing Beano and Dandy figures offered at auction

• Marvel celebrates Iron Fist 50th anniversary with new collection of early stories

  By John Freeman on June 28, 2023

  

  Iron Fist is 50 years old next year, and Marvel is celebrating!

• Crowdfunding Spotlight: Sherlock Holmes and The Empire Builders

  By John Freeman on June 28, 2023

  

  A brand new graphic novel starring the World’s Greatest Detective, is, hopefully, in the works, support permitting…

• In Review: Asteroid City

  By Tim Robins on June 27, 2023

  

  Wes Anderson’s new film leaves Tim Robins rather underwhelmed…

• Crowdfunding Spotlight: Brightside, a spy-fi adventure by Stu Perrins and Nico Valdez

  By John Freeman on June 27, 2023

  

  More steampunk spy-fi from Markosia is on offer on Kickstarter

• Claudia Christian’s Dark Legacies comics project in the spotlight at London Film & Comic Con

  By John Freeman on June 27, 2023

  

  Claudia Christian’s Dark Legacies project in the spotlight

• That Time “Del Boy” met Dan Dare…

  By John Freeman on June 26, 2023 • ( 2 )

  

  The Dan Dare Corporation has come up with a canny comic crossover!

• “3 Generations” exhibition, featuring art by the family of comic creator David Leach, announced

  By John Freeman on June 26, 2023

  

  Three generations of artists, exhibited together

• Bryan Talbot’s “Scumworld” re-released on an unsuspecting planet

  By John Freeman on June 25, 2023

  

  A controversial early strip created by Bryan Talbot has been re-released

• Picture Perfect: An Interview with British “Fumetti” photo comics master Howard Payton

  By downthetubes Guests on June 25, 2023 • ( 4 )

  

  Exploring the work of Howard Payton, who photographed many photo comic strips for Eagle, Photo Love and more

• Doctor Who – Terror from the Deep: Episode 34

  By John Freeman on June 24, 2023 • ( 2 )

  

  1990… Channel Tunnel workers have been found dead… Ace and the Doctor may follow them…

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