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• In Review: The Midwich Cuckoos (2022)

  By Tim Robins on 8 June 2022 • ( 3 )

  

  The new adaptation of The Midwich Cuckoos is a subversive pleasure, Tim Robins suggests…

• Spread Groups signs deal with Paramount for Garfield, Star Trek, Top Gun print-on-demand t-shirts

  By John Freeman on 7 June 2022

  

  Spread Group has signed a deal with Paramount Consumer Products to produce print-on-demand products for the European market for five iconic properties: Star Trek, Garfield, Flashdance, SpongeBob SquarePants and Top Gun

• Doctor Who comics villain Beep the Meep headed to TV screens?

  By John Freeman on 7 June 2022 • ( 4 )

  

  Is it a dream? Is it a hoax? Or will the fur fly, as Beep the Meep apparently heads to our TV screens in the upcoming Doctor Who 60th Anniversary Special?

• Hidden Lives, new adult comic from Tony Esmond, Vince Hunt and others, available now

  By John Freeman on 7 June 2022

  

  The new comic Hidden Lives is now on sale, offering hard-hitting and honest stories of real people

• Lancaster University, Lakes International Comic Art Festival announces “Things & The Mind” project launch

  By John Freeman on 6 June 2022

  

  Lancaster University and the Lakes International Comic Art Festival are joining forces to organise an event directed towards supporting learners’ mental health

• British comics with free gifts galore offered in latest Phil-Comics auction, closing today

  By John Freeman on 5 June 2022

  

  There’s still time to bid in the latest Phil-Comics auction on eBay, a catalogue that includes a number of issues of 2000AD, Starlord and Tornado complete with free gifts

• Weird Science: Looking Back at “Von Hoffman’s Invasion”

  By John Freeman on 5 June 2022

  

  Andrew Darlington revisits the first collection of “Von Hoffman’s Invasion” by Tom Tully & Eric Bradbury, released by Rebellion in 2018

• Aces Weekly closes in on its 400th issue

  By John Freeman on 4 June 2022

  

  Our maths might be wonky, and with free samples to boot, we might be a little out.., but it certainly looks like David Lloyd’s digital anthology is about to hit a major milestone!

• Looking Back at Lawless: A Celebration 2022

  By Richard Sheaf on 3 June 2022

  

  Richard Sheaf had a splendid time at the recent Lawless: A Celebration in Bristol, and encourage you all to get there in 2023…

• Are David Hailwood’s Reality Rangers set to reign over Jubilee weekend?

  By John Freeman on 3 June 2022

  

  If you haven’t caught up with David Hailwood’s kids book project, Reality Rangers, here’s your chance to do it for free

• Liverpool Heartbeat charity releases fund raising “Queen” comic – and it seems the Her Majesty is amused…

  By John Freeman on 3 June 2022

  

  Tim Quinn’s latest comic, ‘The Queen”, featuring strips by Lew Stringer, Nigel Parkinson and others, has had approval from Windsor Castle! It’s good to know the Queen may be a comic fan, right?​

• The77 Publications launches “Pandora”, an all-new comics anthology

  By John Freeman on 3 June 2022 • ( 1 )

  

  Pandora is the latest crowdfunded comic anthology from The77 Publications, launched at the recent Lawless Comic Convention, and available to order now

• The Astounding Jason Hyde collection joins this year’s Rebellion releases

  By John Freeman on 2 June 2022

  

  “The Astounding Jason Hyde”, a collection of text stories written by SF author Barrington J. Bayley is on its way in September as one of the Treasury of British Comics titles this year

• More 1980s “Strontium Dog” by Kev Walker offered on Catawiki

  By John Freeman on 1 June 2022

  

  Another page of 1980s “Strontium Dog” art by by Kev Walker is being offered on Catawiki this week

• In Review: Star Wars – Obi-Wan Kenobi

  By Tim Robins on 1 June 2022 • ( 3 )

  

  Tim Robins checks out the opening episodes of the latest Star Wars TV mini-saga starring Ewan McGregor and Moses Ingram

• Panel Borders tackles Multimedia Comics on today’s new radio show

  By John Freeman on 1 June 2022

  

  On today’s latest Panel Borders, Britain’s only on-air regular radio show about comics, host Alex Fitch talks to comic creators about multimedia engagement with their sequential art

• Bidding builds on signed Lawless: A Celebration programme in aid of the charity CALM, now offered with unique extras!

  By John Freeman on 1 June 2022 • ( 1 )

  

  The77 Publications team are running a great quick auction offering some amazing unique items in aid of the Campaign Against Living Miserably (CALM)

• Garth Ennis reveals Battle-Action Special secrets in new Forbidden Planet TV videocast

  By John Freeman on 31 May 2022

  

  Comics writer Garth Ennis returns to Forbidden Planet TV for another great chat with Andrew Sumner, this time going behind the scenes on the all-new Battle-Action Special, out next week

• Eagle comic soars… in Albania?

  By John Freeman on 31 May 2022

  

  Did you know that Eagle as a comic title was revived in the last ten years? Although not the Eagle you might remember…

• Exciting News Inside? Looking back at Battle’s merger with Action

  By John Freeman on 30 May 2022 • ( 1 )

  

  Back in 1977, how did fans of Action and Battle react to the merger of their favourite weekly British comics? We plundered the memories of some of them, including Garth Ennis, and former Battle editor, David Hunt…

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