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Hellboy-inspired “Hell of a Comic Art Challenge” entries teased
The Lakes International Comic Art Festival has revealed some of the fantastic entries received for its 2019 “Hell of a Comic Art Challenge” from students of the arts and young comic art enthusiasts, who have been creatively exploring the depths… Read More ›
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Comic Scene to reprint “Super Spies” magazines
Bond is Back – and if you’re excited by the upcoming new James Bond film, No Time To Die, then you might be interested to know that Comic Scene, in partnership with GetMyComics, will be reprinting Issue 1 of Super… Read More ›
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Belfast’s Eurocon 2019 Reveals this weekend’s Comics Programming
By Andrew Luke Titancon/Eurocon 2019 is happening in Belfast this Thursday 22nd to Saturday 24th August at the city’s Hilton Hotel and Waterfront Studio. It boasts a number of prose guests from SF&F, including Guest of Honour George RR Martin,… Read More ›
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Codename: Warlord returns in this week’s Commando Comics!
Brand new issues of DC Thomson Media‘s Commando Comics (Issues 5255 – 5258) are on sale this week in all good newsagents from Thursday (22nd August) and via various digital platforms, including Amazon Kindle. Featuring fighting desk clerks, hi-jinks in… Read More ›
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Lakes Festival Focus 2019: An Interview with Garth Ennis
Every year, in the countdown to the Lakes International Comic Art Festival in October, we bring you a series of interviews with guests at the event. This “Festival Focus” for 2019 is with Garth Ennis, perhaps best known for his… Read More ›
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Lucy Sullivan in the Spotlight in latest Lakes Festival Podcast
Lucy Sullivan, author of the upcoming graphic novel Barking, is a guest of the latest Lakes International Comic Art Festival Podcast. Animator, illustrator and writer, Lucy talks to co-hosts Ian Loxam and Nikki Bates about the graphic novel, which, as… Read More ›
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London Cartoon Show opens today at Charing Cross Library
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Mega City Book Club celebrates landmark 100th podcast with a Dan Dare flashback
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Brian Bolland’s 1970’s take on Doctor Who revealed in next Vworp! Vworp!
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Ben Haggarty and Adam Brockbank’s Mezolith on Kindle Unlimited
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Cartoonists Club of Great Britain back at Lakes Festival in October
The Cartoonists Club of Great Britain are back at the Lakes International Comic Art Festival this year, with their club stand in the Comics Clock Tower as usual, along with many other great exhibitors, festooned with Rich Skipworth’s amazing towers… Read More ›
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Fancy your own Judge Dredd vehicle? (One careful owner…)
We know that pretty much anything can turn up for sale on eBay, but how about this genuine Judge Dredd 101 Forward Control, one of the City Cabs from the eponymous, much maligned 1995 film? Priced at £34,995, it’s one… Read More ›
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Commando and British Comics Swap-Meet announces special guests
The next Commando and British Comics Swap-Meet is just six weeks away, taking place in Watford, Hertfordshire, on Saturday 28th September 2019. The event will see thousands of Commando comics assembled under one roof – and some special appearances by some British comic creators, including former 2000AD artist Mike Dorey, writer Alan Hebden and, hopefully, former Tharg Steve MacManus
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Side by Side: Comics Tellings of Peterloo
Back in 2015, DC Thomson published Commando Issue 4843, titled “Peterloo!”, written by Ferg Handley with cover and internal art by Carlos Pino, one of several marking the 200th anniversary of Waterloo, but which also recounted the horror of massacre at St. Peter’s Field, Manchester on 16th August 1819. But it’s not the only recent telling of the terrible events in comics
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Malta Comic Con 2019 dates, attendance package deals announced
Organisers Wicked Comics have announced some fantastic deals for Fans and Creators travelling to this year’s Malta Comic Con, spanning over the weekend of Saturday 2nd November and 3rd November 2019 – so if you’re after a bit of winter… Read More ›
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Dan Dare Fan Fiction – from the 1950s!
Inspired by the “Dan Dare” comic in Eagle and listening to the space hero’s adventures on Radio Luxembourg, Philip Harbottle not only created comic strips documenting the Dan Dare Radio Adventures, some featured in our Episode Guide – he created… Read More ›
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Classic 2000AD “Dredd” cover art by Mick McMahon on offer in latest Compal Comics auction
Compal Comics have just launched their August/September auction catalogue – and as usual there are some great items on offer, including a terrific “Judge Dredd” 2000AD cover by Mick McMahon, more original art by Frank Bellamy, a Dandy No.1 –… Read More ›
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Beano Studios partners with Happy Monkey Drinks on nationwide promotion
Beano Studios has struck up a new partnership with Happy Monkey Drinks, with a series of on pack tie-ins to its popular TV series Dennis and Gnasher: Unleashed! A quarter of a million Happy Monkey Strawberry & Banana and Orange… Read More ›
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Comic Creator Interviews ›
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Comics Laureate Bobby Joseph on the BBC
October 6, 2025
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Creating Comics: An Interview with “Dan Dare” comic artist Alberto Foche
October 3, 2025
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Creating Comics: An Interview with Comics Laureate Bobby Joseph
September 9, 2025
Creating Comics ›
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In Praise of… John Farrelly
October 10, 2025
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Push the Wall by Frank Miller out next year
October 9, 2025
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Todd McFarlane Batman cover art heads to auction
October 8, 2025
Events ›
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Ugo Bienvenu and Bill Plympton guests at French Animation Festival
October 10, 2025
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Graham Coton’s “Heroes Never Die” original art set to sell for peanuts?
October 9, 2025
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Call For Papers: Graphic Medicine 2026 – Drawing Perspectives: Health Graphic Narratives Under Pressure
October 9, 2025
2000AD ›
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Ghastly times for 2000AD’s finest in latest thrills from The Mighty Tharg
October 8, 2025
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2000AD continues to sizzle, new Prog in store now
October 1, 2025
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Red Dragon racks up the 2000AD action!
September 24, 2025
Doctor Who ›
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Doctor Who Magazine US distribution changes ahead?
October 7, 2025
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First Look: Doctor Who – The Prison Paradox #1
October 2, 2025
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Preston Comic Con returns this weekend offering celebrity and comic creator lineup, £100 cosplay prize
October 1, 2025
Exhibitions ›
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Bruce McCall: Visions of the Retrofuture opens soon in New York
October 4, 2025
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New Forest Painters exhibition includes equestrian art by 2000AD’s Alan Langford
October 1, 2025
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Former Blue Peter presenter Anthea Turner drafted for Thunderbirds duty – again!
September 19, 2025
Obituaries ›
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In Memoriam: American comics writer, artist, editor, and publisher Mort Todd
August 29, 2025
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In Memoriam: Comic Artist Dave Taylor
August 27, 2025
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In Memoriam: Ervin Rustemagic, founder of the agency Strip Art Features
August 19, 2025
Other Worlds ›
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Jackie joins the British Newspaper Archive
October 10, 2025
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In Review: Battleship Potemkin
October 9, 2025
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Banned Books Week spotlights most challenged books, Star Trek’s George Takei Honorary Chair
October 6, 2025