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• Global graphic novel “Highly Commended” as 2024 Wainwright Prize for Children’s Writing on Nature and Conservation announced

  By John Freeman on 12 September 2024

  

  “Global” didn’t win, but earning a place on the prestigious shortlist is news in itself

• New crowdfunding campaign launched for comics museum in Sicily

  By John Freeman on 12 September 2024

  

  A dedicated group of comic fans in Sicily hope to open a new Comics Museum

• Catch up with four Fighting Fantasy artists

  By John Freeman on 12 September 2024

  

  If you missed this Fighting Fantasy event, check out the online livestream

• Latest Giles collection released today

  By John Freeman on 12 September 2024

  

  An annual treat officially lands in bookshops today

• WebFind: Super-Team Family – The Lost Issues

  By John Freeman on 12 September 2024

  

  One of those sites with comics you sometimes wish got made

• Comic Creator Spotlight: John Severin, a Master of Comic Cover Composition

  By John Freeman on 12 September 2024

  

  Eye-catching covers were just one of Severin’s talents

• Pirates and perfidious treachery on offer in new Commando comics!

  By John Freeman on 11 September 2024

  

  You can’t go wrong with marauding lions to tempt readers!

• Sonic the Hedgehog magazine in the works from Story House Egmont and SEGA Europe

  By John Freeman on 11 September 2024

  

  A new Sonic the Hedgehog magazine on the way

• Crowdfunding Spotlight: a new edition of Tillie Walden’s “Spinning”, a graphic memoir from Avery Hill

  By John Freeman on 11 September 2024

  

  Still time to back this new edition of an award-winning graphic novel

• Remembering Comic Creator Colin Fawcett

  By John Freeman on 10 September 2024

  

  Remembering a lesser known contributor to Marvel UK’s titles

• In Memoriam: Comic Artist and Writer John Cassaday

  By John Freeman on 10 September 2024

  

  Sad news of the passing of one of the best

• Beano No. 1 record sale lands world record price for a British comic at auction

  By John Freeman on 10 September 2024

  

  Stratospheric sale from first issue of DC Thomson’s weekly

• All change at 2000AD for all-out war!

  By John Freeman on 10 September 2024

  

  Strips draw to a close as time war heads to the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic!

• Wainwright Prizes for Nature and Conservation announced this week, “Global” graphic novel shortlisted

  By John Freeman on 9 September 2024

  

  Will a graphic novel win this year’s Prize for Children’s Writing on Nature and Conservation?

• Upcoming Sworders auction of Modern and Contemporary Art sees Dennis the Menace offered alongside Picasso!

  By John Freeman on 9 September 2024

  

  Beano and Dandy artworks set to go under the hammer

• Mal Earl’s “Pieces of Colour” art book reissued, Aces Weekly collections in the works

  By John Freeman on 9 September 2024

  

  Check out the work of this innovative comic creator

• When Gollum became a Giant

  By John Freeman on 9 September 2024 • ( 1 )

  

  Gollum as you may never have seen him before…

• Krazy Kat Family Portrait hits the market (but not with a brick)

  By John Freeman on 8 September 2024

  

  An exceptional collectable – if you have the readies!

• Happy Anniversary, The Monkees!

  By John Freeman on 8 September 2024

  

  The world’s first “manufactured” boy bad, remembered

• Meet Martyn Harvey, the artist and author who sold his house to carve a creative career!

  By John Freeman on 7 September 2024

  

  Talk about taking a gamble… but it’s paying off!

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