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• Comics Salopia’s Shrewsbury Comics Trail launches this weekend

  By John Freeman on 22 July 2021

  

  A simply brilliant project combining comics with a town trail opens in Shrewsbury this weekend

• Beano Brain releases Million Pound Kids 2021 Consumer Spending Report, WHSmith still in Top Ten high street retailers for children

  By John Freeman on 22 July 2021

  

  Kids vital to driving high street retail – including WHSmith!

• Commando comic commemorates 80 years of the SAS, official 2022 calendar revealed!

  By John Freeman on 21 July 2021

  

  This latest set of Commando marks a rare debut by a writer-artist…

• Rebellion News: This week’s 2000AD, “Trigan Empire”, and more – and “Karl the Viking” on the way for 2022

  By John Freeman on 21 July 2021

  

  Check our guide to this week’s 2000AD, plus news of a fantastic new collection on the way next year from the Treasury of British Comics

• Comic Creator Spotlight: Jinty and Tammy artist Ken Houghton

  By John Freeman on 20 July 2021

  

  Comic artist Alan Langford sent me scurrying down a rabbit hole in search of more about the work of this British comic creator…

• In Review: Loki

  By Tim Robins on 20 July 2021

  

  Tim Robins review is not spoiler free! Don’t end up cursing if you ignore this warning! Plus – all you ever need to know about the Thanoscopter!

• Five faces of Modesty Blaise! Newspaper strip art a highlight lot of this week’s Catawiki International Original Comic Art auction

  By John Freeman on 19 July 2021

  

  On offer – art by five great comic artists, one Modesty Blaise!

• New Doctor Who “Celebration – The USA Tour” collection offered by artist Andrew Skilleter

  By John Freeman on 18 July 2021

  

  A new limited edition of Doctor Who-related art is available now from Who Dares Publishing

• “Invaders from Time” debuts in latest Spaceship Away

  By John Freeman on 18 July 2021

  

  Space hero Nick Hazard storms the cover of the latest edition of this glossy Dan Dare-inspired SF comic magazine

• Philip Harbottle’s comic adaptation of John Russell Fearn’s novel “Across the Ages” published for the first time

  By John Freeman on 18 July 2021

  

  60 years after it was first drawn, an adaptation of a classic SF novel is finally in print

• Major Mœbius retrospective opens in Naples

  By John Freeman on 17 July 2021

  

  Good news, even if you can’t get to the exhibition, the amazing-looking catalogue is available to international Moebius fans

• Robert Kirkman’s “Secret History of Comics” comes to Sky History, but have you checked out “Stan Lee: How Marvel Changed the World” yet?

  By John Freeman on 17 July 2021

  

  Robert Kirkman’s US-comics-focused documentary series gives us a chance to replug Adrian Mackinder’s recently-published Stan Lee biography

• Special US screening event for Alan Moore and Mitch Jenkins’ “The Show” announced, TV series in development

  By John Freeman on 17 July 2021

  

  A new fantasy mystery feature film from author Alan Moore, directed by Mitch Jenkins heads to US movie theaters

• In Memoriam: Comic Artist Robson Rocha, lost to COVID-19

  By John Freeman on 16 July 2021

  

  A hugely talented young Brazilian artist has passed away

• In Review: The Incredible Adventures of Janus Stark (Volume Three)

  By John Freeman on 16 July 2021

  

  It’s time for another trip back to crazy old Victorian London, and beyond, courtesy of rubbery escapologist Janus Stark!

• Panel Borders (Episode 501): Anticipating the Future, with comics writers Alex de Campi and Tim Fielder

  By John Freeman on 15 July 2021

  

  The latest Panel Borders heads into the future, exploring how two top SF comic writers have told it…

• Buy Small Press retail platform reaches out to the comics community for support to prepare for impending British tax changes

  By John Freeman on 15 July 2021

  

  Can you lend a hand to help a growing service used by many small press creators ready for VAT changes next month?

• Comics Workshops announced for Lakes International Comic Art Festival, award-winning Italian artist Manuele Fior joins guest line up

  By John Freeman on 15 July 2021

  

  Fancy creating comics? Of course you do. Here’s some workshops coming up in October at LICAF, in Kendal…

• Classic Comic Spotlight: “Robin of Sherwood” for Look-In, by Mike Noble

  By John Freeman on 15 July 2021

  

  Two great pages of the Look-In strip “Robin of Sherwood” are up for auction, and work on a collection of the strip proceeds apace

• Filming begins on “fly on the wall” documentary “Scouting for Toys” at Vectis Toys Auctioneers

  By John Freeman on 14 July 2021

  

  Fancy being part of a new TV show all about toy collectibles? Here’s your chance…

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