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• Full programme announced and tickets on sale for October’s Lakes International Comic Art Festival

  By John Freeman on July 1, 2021

  

  The festival events programme is now online and tickets for this year’s Lakes International Comic Art Festival are now on sale. More guests have been announced, joining an already star-studded line-up for the in-person weekend long celebration of comics in Kendal, Cumbria,… Read More ›

• Hibernia’s latest Fleetway Files collection revives “The Indestructible Man”

  By John Freeman on July 1, 2021

  

  Independent publisher Hibernia Comics has just released its second Fleetway Files collection, The Indestructible Man, by Scott Goodall MBE and Jesus Blasco, first published in the short-lived JAG comic in 1968/69. Wrongly entombed in the ancient pyramids of Egypt for… Read More ›

• “Cartooning in Africa” conference in Paris aims to celebrate press freedom this weekend

  By John Freeman on July 1, 2021

  

  Find out more about this major celebration of cartoonists working across Africa, often in difficult, and sometimes dangerous situations…

• Film Rights Optioned for Bryan Talbot’s “The Tale of One Bad Rat”

  By John Freeman on June 30, 2021

  

  Great news for fans of Bryan Talbot’s powerful graphic novel, first published by Dark Horse Comics

• Reinventing Comic Characters: The European Approach

  By Peter Duncan on June 30, 2021

  

  Comic characters are being adapted for a modern audience across the Channel. Peter Duncan takes a look…

• Latest Catawiki International Original Comic Art Comics Auction includes more art by Reg Bunn, Jesús Blasco and Sydney Jordan

  By John Freeman on June 30, 2021

  

  More British creators in the auction spotlight thanks to Catawiki

• 300 Contributors, 120 Stories, One World-Changing Book, out this October, delivering Stories to Save the World

  By John Freeman on June 30, 2021

  

  Available to pre-order now, in aid of one very good cause – saving our planet!

• 2000AD publishing plans for 45th birthday revealed: new Encyclopedia, first ever “Judge Dredd: Legends of the Law” in the works

  By John Freeman on June 29, 2021

  

  2000AD publisher Rebellion have some great books coming up to mark the Galaxy’s Greatest Comics’ 45th birthday in 2022

• Bringing “Rivers of London” to comics: An exclusive interview with Ben Aaronovitch and Andrew Cartmel

  By John Freeman on June 29, 2021

  

  A chat with writers Ben Aaronovitch and Andrew Cartmel, as new Rivers of London projects debut – plus a ROL chronology, too!

• Power Rangers Unlimited: Edge of Darkness #1 debuts this week

  By John Freeman on June 28, 2021

  

  Power Rangers! Go! Go! To your local comic shop

• Heritage Auctions smashes another sales record

  By John Freeman on June 26, 2021

  

  Staggering US comics auction sales figures break records, again

• Josephine M.K. Edwards bewitching tale, “The Will O’The Wisp”, back in print

  By John Freeman on June 26, 2021

  

  A haunting tale gets a second outing thanks to Breakdown Press

• New “illustrators” projects from Book Palace spotlight Edgar Rice Burroughs, Peter Jackson, Jesús Blasco, and more

  By John Freeman on June 25, 2021 • ( 1 )

  

  Some great new projects in the works from the Book Palace team

• In Review: Horror – The First Time America’s Paranoia infected the World

  By Peter Duncan on June 25, 2021 • ( 1 )

  

  Peter Duncan reviews a new book on the 1950s campaign against American horror comics and is left sadly unimpressed

• Stunning Conan the Barbarian art by Batman: Reptilian artist Liam Sharp up for sale

  By John Freeman on June 24, 2021

  

  Stunning, dramatic art by Liam Sharp for sale, and a Batman: Reptilian plug!

• Rare, possibly unique Garth newspaper strip merchandise sighted

  By John Freeman on June 24, 2021

  

  Do you know of any other “Garth” merchandise? This jigsaw may be unique…

• Alan Austin, Britain’s first comics retailer, remembered in his own words in two new books

  By John Freeman on June 23, 2021 • ( 1 )

  

  British comic retailing memories from the much-respected, and missed, Alan Austin brought to book

• Castle Fine Art offers Hanna-Barbera “Scooby Doo” limited edition prints and more

  By John Freeman on June 23, 2021

  

  Animation art prints cut the mustard!

• Commando 60th Anniversary celebrations continue with cursed planes, an historic sequel, future war – and an origin story, too!

  By John Freeman on June 23, 2021

  

  All-out anniversary section in the latest Commando set from DC Thomson Media

• The sad tale of Boardman Science Fiction, a victim of its own publisher revealed, in latest “1950s British Science Fiction” videocast

  By John Freeman on June 23, 2021

  

  Back in the 1950s, the Boardman Science Fiction series attempted to introduce quality science fiction into Britain in both hardcover and paperback. Why did it fail? That’s the question posed – and answered – by author and SF expert Philip… Read More ›

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