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• Tube Surfing: Comic Title Confusion Damaging Sales, and some Doctor Who trivia

  By John Freeman on 2 August 2026 • ( 2 )

  

  A round up of quickfire news items, some comic related, that have caught our eye in recent days…

• Store casualties mount as TG Jones closures begin across the UK

  By John Freeman on 2 August 2026 • ( 7 )

  

  150 of 480 shops across the UK set to close

• Lakes International Comic Art Festival workshop program launched

  By John Freeman on 1 August 2026 • ( 0 )

  

  Learn or hone your comic skills at this year’s annual Festival..

• Time Bomb Comics celebrates 20th anniversary with new titles

  By John Freeman on 1 August 2026 • ( 0 )

  

  Amnesia Agents – The Collected Edition starts a year of celebration

• In Review: Spider-Man: Brand New Day

  By Tim Robins on 1 August 2026 • ( 2 )

  

  Does whatever a Spider-Man should…

• Graphic Medicine International Collective 2026 Awards Announced

  By John Freeman on 31 July 2026 • ( 0 )

  

  These awards champion not one or two works of graphic medicine, but many

• Lost Asterix album published in English for the first time to celebrate René Goscinny’s 100th birthday

  By John Freeman on 30 July 2026 • ( 2 )

  

  Cacofonix lands Asterix and Obelix in big trouble!

• Count Binface flies to SelfMadeHero!

  By John Freeman on 30 July 2026 • ( 2 )

  

  The Count Binface Comic Book brings the universe of “Old Binnie” to glorious life!

• Coming Soon: Murder School by Paul B. Rainey

  By John Freeman on 30 July 2026 • ( 0 )

  

  School days, slaughtered, in upcoming graphic novel

• “The Dissidents” by Derf Backderf, exploring lost American comic history, gets launch at Small Press Expo 2026

  By John Freeman on 30 July 2026 • ( 0 )

  

  British voices also head to annual American spotlight on independent comics

• Mike Wieringo Comic Book Industry Awards Nominees Announced

  By John Freeman on 29 July 2026 • ( 0 )

  

  UK’s Liam Sharp, Avery Hill Publishing and Aces Weekly cited

• Crowdfunding Spotlight: INSOMNIAX, offers new comic creator interviews, new creative insights

  By John Freeman on 29 July 2026 • ( 0 )

  

  New magazine of Comics, Illustration and Graphic Design in the works

• No Slime Here: New 2000AD Out Today

  By John Freeman on 29 July 2026 • ( 0 )

  

  2000AD Prog 2493 is out now from all good newsagents, some possibly run by Vudlux

• Lucas Museum of Narrative Art Reveals Inaugural Film Program

  By John Freeman on 29 July 2026 • ( 0 )

  

  Introducing the Lucas Museum Inaugural Film Program

• Anything but turnips! Cadman returns to Commando

  By John Freeman on 29 July 2026 • ( 0 )

  

  Wartime rations a deadlier foe than the enemy? Cowardly Cadman might think so…

• Artist Spotlight: Kendal-based fine artist Lela Harris

  By John Freeman on 28 July 2026

  

  Find out more about a Kendal-based fine artists with a global reach

• First volume of The Terry Pratchett Reader’s Guide gets early launch at Discworld Convention

  By John Freeman on 28 July 2026

  

  New book charting the work of the Discworld creator gets early release

• Creating Comics in Palestine: Jim Medway’s Qusasat Comics Camp Story

  By downthetubes Guests on 28 July 2026

  

  Comic creator Jim Medway headed to the Middle East, as part of a Lakes International Comic Arts Foundation initiative supported by the British Council

• Mark Millar joins High Vis Festival lineup in Birmingham

  By John Freeman on 27 July 2026

  

  Top comic creator joins High Vis lineup in September

• UFO detected at Master Replicas!

  By John Freeman on 27 July 2026

  

  SHADO Control Mobile preorders open

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