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• Fifty Year Flashback: The Mighty World of Marvel No.1

  By downthetubes Guests on 30 September 2022 • ( 2 )

  

  Comic creator and archivist Lew Stringer celebrates the debut of Marvel UK’s very first comic, Mighty World of Marvel, this week, back in 1972…

• Tripwire Awards 2022 Results Announced

  By John Freeman on 30 September 2022

  

  Congratulations to all the winners of this year’s awards!

• In Review: Moonage Daydream (15)

  By Tim Robins on 30 September 2022

  

  Tim Robins checks out the new David Bowie documentary

• “Rayguns and Rocketships”, Rian Hughes new book, gets a deserved thumbs up

  By John Freeman on 28 September 2022 • ( 1 )

  

  Rayguns and Rocketships, Rian Hughes new book, gets an enthusiastic thumbs up from Philip Harbottle

• Ramsey’s Raiders storm back into Commando in all-new story

  By John Freeman on 28 September 2022

  

  All-out action aplenty spanning 200 years of conflicts in the latest Commando comics

• Crowdfunding Spotlight: The Monty Python role-playing game… er, “Cocurricular Mediaeval Reenactment Programme”

  By John Freeman on 28 September 2022

  

  Gird thine loins! Be ready! If such middling, obscure franchises as Star Wars and Lord of the Rings get to have RPGs, why not Monty Python?

• It’s true! Bonjo from Beyond the Stars is biting his way back into 2000AD

  By John Freeman on 27 September 2022

  

  Surely the revival you least expected (or, perhaps, anyone wanted) is coming to 2000AD

• In Review: Penguin Audio – The 2000AD Adaptations

  By Luke Williams on 27 September 2022

  

  Luke Williams checks out some of the recently-released 2000AD audio adaptations from Penguin…

• EAGLE comics galore, and much more, in latest Phil-Comics eBay auction

  By John Freeman on 27 September 2022 • ( 1 )

  

  A treasure trove for fans of the 1980s EAGLE on offer this week from the eBay auction house

• Women Shaping the World: Lucie Arnoux and Marine des Mazery Drink & Draw

  By John Freeman on 27 September 2022

  

  Unleash the artist within, learn a thing or two about drawing and enjoy a drink with an inspiring sketching social in London

• Lakes Festival Focus: Bex Ollerton (aka Schnumn)

  By John Freeman on 27 September 2022

  

  Sensory: Life on the Spectrum: An Autistic Comics Anthology debuts next month. We catch up with the project’s creator…

• Lakes Festival Focus: An Interview with Comic Creator Matthew Dooley

  By John Freeman on 27 September 2022

  

  We catch up with the author of the award-winning graphic novel FLAKE

• Marvel Heroes tribute, Trigan Empire pages and more, on offer in this week’s  Catawiki International Original Comics Art Auction

  By John Freeman on 26 September 2022

  

  Trigan Empire art, a page of Olac the Gladiator battling a dinosaur in the latest Catawiki weekly auction

• British comic fanzines archive “The Fanscene Project” has a new online home

  By John Freeman on 26 September 2022 • ( 1 )

  

  A fantastic digital celebration of British comics fandom has a new online home

• Jump on board 2000AD, with this week’s “Introduction” Prog – and check out the new Best of 2000AD, too

  By John Freeman on 25 September 2022

  

  What do you mean, you’ve never read 2000AD? Here’s another great chance to start, thrill seekers!

• Christmas chicanery ahead, courtesy of BEANO and Monster Fun!

  By John Freeman on 25 September 2022

  

  Two Christmas Specials, packed with comics fun, are on offer now

• Cartoonists in the Spotlight… in Shaftesbury!

  By John Freeman on 25 September 2022

  

  Cartoonists mind probed in a pub! Surely shame mishtake?

• Art of Ping Pong exhibition features work of a host of top British artists

  By John Freeman on 24 September 2022 • ( 1 )

  

  Terrific looking exhibition with a charity auction, too!

• Bob Fischer – Wiffle Lever to Full! Event in Birmingham celebrates all things SciFi

  By John Freeman on 22 September 2022

  

  A skewed celebration of all things SciFi is heading to the Midlands…

• A Brian Bolland bonanza bounces its way to bookshops and newsagents, too

  By John Freeman on 22 September 2022 • ( 2 )

  

  A new book by Brian Bolland, and two news stand titles featuring his work, are on their way…

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