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• Riad Sattouf’s best-selling “Esther’s Notebooks” launch in English next week

  By John Freeman on 2 April 2021

  

  The first of the top-selling “Esther’s Notebooks” reach our shores next week

• 50 Volumes Young! Aces Weekly Powers On

  By John Freeman on 1 April 2021

  

  We’re a bit late to the party… but you need not be

• Crowdfunding Spotlight: The77 #5

  By John Freeman on 1 April 2021

  

  New creators claim pub aboard The77 project – don’t stop them now!

• Cast your beady eyes on the all-new 2000AD, out today, plus a quick Rebellion releases checklist for 2021

  By John Freeman on 31 March 2021

  

  Get set for plenty of SF action, adventure, and more!

• Artist Spotlight: Shannon Stirnweis

  By John Freeman on 31 March 2021

  

  A quick look at the work of Illustrator Shannon Stirnweis

• New Commando Comics offer adventure from across the globe

  By John Freeman on 30 March 2021

  

  Conflict from across the centuries and around the world are on offer in this latest Commando set

• In Memoriam: Beano and The Dandy artist Duncan Scott

  By Peter Duncan on 30 March 2021 • ( 10 )

  

  Peter Duncan pays tribute to a talented but very troubled comic creator

• In Review: Clash of Blades

  By John Freeman on 30 March 2021 • ( 2 )

  

  Norman Boyd checks out another great classic comic collection packed with derring-do

• Remembering Cartoonist and Writer Rod McKie

  By Joe Gordon on 30 March 2021

  

  Joe Gordon pays tribute to the cartoonist and comic creator Rod McKie

• In Memoriam: Cartoonist, Comic Artist and Illustrator Rod McKie

  By John Freeman on 30 March 2021

  

  We’re sorry to report the passing of cartoonist and illustrator Rod McKie, who has died after being taken seriously ill with a brain haemorrhage earlier this month. His wife Lis, his partner for 46 years, announced his passing at the… Read More ›

• Asterix moves to Sphere, title of new story out this October announced

  By John Freeman on 29 March 2021

  

  A big moves for Asterix, and a big monster coming too?

• Hackney Comic + Zine Fair goes online this September

  By John Freeman on 29 March 2021

  

  This community-focused event returns, but in virtual form

• In Review: John Steel: Special Agent World War II

  By Norman Boyd on 28 March 2021

  

  Norman Boyd revels in some Ron Turner goodness from Book Palace

• Judge Dredd newspaper strips by Ron Smith and Mike Collins offered on eBay, bidding ending today

  By John Freeman on 28 March 2021

  

  Some Judge Dredd rarities and more hit eBay

• Power Comics: Lew Stringer’s Handy Guides to some of the best 1960s British weeklies

  By John Freeman on 27 March 2021

  

  Nifty guides to WHAM!, SMASH!, POW!, FANTASTIC and TERRIFIC and early Marvel Comics reprints in the UK

• “The Legend of King Arthur” stamps by Jaime Jones

  By John Freeman on 25 March 2021

  

  No, not the Monty Python version

• A Big Thank You: British Comics Archivist, Writer, Collector, and Friend Colin Noble, King of Picture Libraries

  By John Freeman on 25 March 2021 • ( 2 )

  

  We hope you see this, sir.

• Comic Creator Spotlight: Ian Kennedy

  By John Freeman on 25 March 2021

  

  We make no apology for celebrating the work of a great British comic artist

• “Radical Reading: Political Comic Books” online short course open now from the School for Social and Cultural Change

  By John Freeman on 24 March 2021

  

  Check out this course run by comics writer Sean Michael Wilson

• Crowdfunding Spotlight: 42: The Wildly Improbable Ideas of Douglas Adams – back it, before something weird happens to you

  By John Freeman on 24 March 2021

  

  Now you know about this, don’t ignore it. Strange things are happening

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