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• Creating Comics: An Interview with new Commando writer Colin Maxwell

  By Richard Sheaf on 6 October 2020

  

  Richard Sheaf chats with a newcomer on Britain’s longest-running war comic

• Comics Weirdest Panels in the #LicafLive Spotlight!

  By John Freeman on 6 October 2020

  

  Comics out of context in the virtual spotlight

• Crowdfunding Spotlight: Tripwire Magazine Returns!

  By John Freeman on 5 October 2020

  

  A crazy plan? It might just work!

• Original “Lost World” art sells for a monster sum!

  By John Freeman on 4 October 2020

  

  An original art work by prolific New Zealand illustrator Harry Rountree attracts a major price

• Sneak Peek: Cover Me – The Vintage Art of Pan Books: 1950-1965

  By John Freeman on 4 October 2020 • ( 1 )

  

  A fantastic book presenting the very best Pan Books covers is on its way from Telos Publishing

• Latest Comic Art Festival Podcast offers full LICAF Live Preview

  By John Freeman on 3 October 2020

  

  Ian Loxam and Nikki Bates are back in their hot seats wit a great trailer for #LICAFLive next week

• Sir Paul McCartney re-releases updated “Rupert and The Frog Song” animated short, re-mastered to celebrate 100 years of Rupert the Bear

  By John Freeman on 3 October 2020

  

  It’s an ear worm in your head now, isn’t it. Sing away, now!

• Rare promotional Eagle offered on eBay

  By Richard Sheaf on 3 October 2020

  

  A sought-after British comics collectible is up for grabs…if you can afford it.

• Comic Creator Spotlight: ComicScene editor and Tony Foster

  By John Freeman on 2 October 2020

  

  Tony Foster produced the comic Atomic in the late 1980s and early 90s to great critical acclaim. Then he simply disappeared from comics into the world of family and work. 30 years later, after successfully editing ComicScene magazine since early 2018, he’s… Read More ›

• Howl’s This! New Anthony Petrie “Wolfman” Posters from Vice Press

  By John Freeman on 2 October 2020

  

  Howl’s this for a terrific poster (sorry, it’s Friday)

• Coming Soon – Panel Borders: Ladies of the Lakes

  By John Freeman on 2 October 2020

  

  On next week’s Panel Borders comics radio show, Alex Fitch interviews two women working in the comic book industry, in Q and As recorded at previous Lakes International Comic Art Festivals. Deborah Tate discusses her former role as editor at… Read More ›

• SHIFT, a new British strip anthology, gets launch date

  By John Freeman on 2 October 2020

  

  A new British anthology nears release

• Lakes Festival Focus 2020: Cartoonist and Caricaturist Jason Chatfield

  By John Freeman on 2 October 2020

  

  Every year, in the countdown to the Lakes International Comic Art Festival in October, this year running as the virtual LICAF LIVE, we bring you a series of interviews with both guests and participants in the Comics Clock Tower (This… Read More ›

• Crowdfunding Spotlight: Brawler #2 from Time Bomb Comics

  By John Freeman on 1 October 2020

  

  Another fantastic-looking British anthology is on its way

• In Review: Gentlemind Volume One

  By Peter Duncan on 1 October 2020

  

  Examining the cost of ambition and the consequences of the compromises it demands…

• Meet the zombies of “Call of Duty Black Ops Cold War” (no, no, not the Lead Writer…)

  By John Freeman on 1 October 2020

  

  Zombies aplenty lurking in the shadows!

• Lakes Festival Focus 2020: Illustrator and Writer Sarah McIntyre

  By John Freeman on 1 October 2020

  

  A smashing chat with an uber-talented artist and writer!

• “MAD Magazine” may be a pale shadow of its former self, but at least, hopefully, there will be “Claptrap”!

  By John Freeman on 1 October 2020

  

  Happy Birthday, MAD Magazine! It’s a shame DC Comics decided to effectively bring this once great title to an ignominious end earlier this year.

• Now We Are Eight: Aces Weekly celebrates digital birthday

  By John Freeman on 30 September 2020

  

  Happy Birthday to Aces Weekly – and congratulations to all those who bring it out way!

• Creepy Commandos, an SF adventure – and the new Commando Calendar out, too!

  By John Freeman on 30 September 2020

  

  There’s something for everyone in this brand-new set of Commando comics (Issues 5371 – 5374), on sale this week from DC Thomson Media, a set that marks the debut of award-winning comics writer Colin Maxwell to the creative team: from… Read More ›

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