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• Sneak Peek! All-new Monster Fun hits newsagents this week!

  By John Freeman on 2 April 2022

  

  Monster Fun returns to the newsstand, with all-new stories for kids!

• Stand by for Action! Gerry Anderson Day returns on 14th April

  By John Freeman on 1 April 2022 • ( 1 )

  

  Anything can happen on Gerry Anderson Day, back this month!

• Spirou celebrates 100th anniversary of publisher Editions Dupuis with bumper special issue

  By Peter Duncan on 1 April 2022 • ( 1 )

  

  A new 100-page double-issue of Spirou celebrate the 100th anniversary of founding of its publisher, Editions Dupuis

• Comics Advertising from the Vaults: Battle Picture Library, 1971

  By John Freeman on 1 April 2022

  

  April 1971 ad for Battle Picture Library.

• Comic Art Trail featuring stunning work of Thai artists opens in Portsmouth next week

  By John Freeman on 1 April 2022 • ( 1 )

  

  Some amazing art by a huge range of Thai artists comes to Portsmouth, ahead of the Comic Con, back in May

• Ladies with Guns arrived at Europe Comics

  By John Freeman on 1 April 2022 • ( 1 )

  

  A superb-looking western comic gets its English digital debut

• Upcoming online Falklands War Conference includes panel on Argentinian and British Comics with Paul Gravett, Calum Laird

  By John Freeman on 31 March 2022

  

  A special upcoming academic conference on the Falklands War includes a panel on related comics

• Early Bird Tickets available now for October’s Lakes International Comic Art Festival

  By John Freeman on 31 March 2022

  

  Get your Early Bird Tickets for the Lakes Festival, an event whose line up includes Alison Bechdel, Jaime Hernandez and Posy Simmonds

• Creating Comics: DC Comics Paul Levitz celebrates 50 years in the comics business

  By John Freeman on 30 March 2022

  

  Forbidden Planet TV recently posted a great interview with DC Comics writer, editor and executive Paul Levitz

• Fight for liberty – get the “Dread: Dredd” tabletop role-playing game, out today

  By John Freeman on 30 March 2022

  

  A brand new version of the award-winning TTRPG game Dread will plunge you and your friends into a thrilling race against time in Mega-City One

• Universal Credit: Society of Authors surveys writers after DWP rule change

  By John Freeman on 30 March 2022

  

  The Society of Authors is seeking urgent feedback on the new requirement that Universal Credit claimants must look more widely for jobs after four weeks of benefits

• Two new writers make their Commando debut in latest issues, on sale this week

  By John Freeman on 30 March 2022 • ( 2 )

  

  New blood in the Commando ranks in the latest long-running war comic! Do the new writers past muster?

• New 2000AD out today, the all-new Monster Fun incoming next week!

  By John Freeman on 30 March 2022

  

  Thrill-powered new 2000AD, all-new Monster Fun comic, classic adventure in “House of Dolmann”, are all coming your way from Rebellion!

• In Memoriam: Illustrator, Designer, Publisher and Comic Creator Garry Leach

  By John Freeman on 29 March 2022

  

  One of the early artists on 2000AD, Garry Leach will always be regarded as one of British comics most influential comic creators

• Glasgow Calling: Latest Swap Meet hosts Commando guests, prompts discussion of war comics past – and future

  By downthetubes Guests on 28 March 2022

  

  The latest Glasgow Swap Meet proved a space for buying classic comics – and discussing the past, and future, of war comics…

• Illustrated Parkinson’s Diary aid released for sufferers and carers

  By John Freeman on 28 March 2022

  

  Lancaster-based comic creator and author Antonella Caputo has devised an illustrated Parkinson’s Diary, now available in English and German

• 2000AD@45: Convention Catch Up!

  By John Freeman on 28 March 2022

  

  Missed any of the free 2000AD@45 event? Catch up here – and find out what’s to come in the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic!

• Original “Torpedo” art by Jordi Bernet offered in latest Catawiki International Comic Art Auction

  By John Freeman on 28 March 2022

  

  Smashing art on offer again from a variety of European and British comic creators

• Online event with Tom DeFalco, Heidi MacDonald and Elliot S. Maggin set to discuss “The Rise and Fall of Comics”

  By John Freeman on 26 March 2022

  

  Ramon Gil and the Comics Arts Workshop are hosting a free virtual event titled “The Rise and Fall of Comics” in May

• Jim Alexander and Will Pickering’s powerful SF adventure, Savant, collected at last

  By John Freeman on 26 March 2022

  

  The powerful, thought-provoking SF story from Jim Alexander and Will Pickering is collected at last

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