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• British Comic Sales Figures, Winners and Losers (January – June 2019)

  By John Freeman on 21 August 2019 • ( 5 )

  

  Despite some bleak circulation figures, there’s a few bits of good cheer among the reported latest sales for consumer magazines on British news stands issued by the Audit Bureau of Circulations, which included comics. Overall, sales of children’s magazines grew,… Read More ›

• Hellboy-inspired “Hell of a Comic Art Challenge” entries teased

  By John Freeman on 21 August 2019

  

  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 ›

• Comic Scene to reprint “Super Spies” magazines

  By John Freeman on 21 August 2019

  

  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 ›

• Belfast’s Eurocon 2019 Reveals this weekend’s Comics Programming

  By downthetubes Guests on 21 August 2019

  

  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 ›

• Codename: Warlord returns in this week’s Commando Comics!

  By John Freeman on 20 August 2019 • ( 1 )

  

  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 ›

• Lakes Festival Focus 2019: An Interview with Garth Ennis

  By John Freeman on 19 August 2019 • ( 1 )

  

  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 ›

• Lucy Sullivan in the Spotlight in latest Lakes Festival Podcast

  By John Freeman on 19 August 2019

  

  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 ›

• London Cartoon Show opens today at Charing Cross Library

  By John Freeman on 19 August 2019

  

  The London Cartoon Show opens today, Monday 19th August at Charing Cross Library, running until Sunday 1st September 2019

• Mega City Book Club celebrates landmark 100th podcast with a Dan Dare flashback

  By John Freeman on 19 August 2019

  

  The long-running Mega City Book Club podcast, primarily devoted to the collected editions of 2000AD stories, celebrates its milestone one hundredth episode with a look back at the Dragon’s Dream collection of Dan Dare: The Man from Nowhere, published back in 1979.

• Brian Bolland’s 1970’s take on Doctor Who revealed in next Vworp! Vworp!

  By John Freeman on 19 August 2019

  

  The story behind some terrific Doctor Who strip samples created by Brian Bolland, drawn in the 1970s, will be revealed in the next issue of independent Who comics zine, Vworp! Vworp!

• Ben Haggarty and Adam Brockbank’s Mezolith on Kindle Unlimited

  By John Freeman on 18 August 2019

  

  Ben Haggarty and Adam Brockbank’s stunning Stone Age tale Mezolith, initially serialised in The DFC and collected and continued by Archaia/Boom! Studios, is currently being offed as part of a Kindle Unlimited subscription by Amazon.

• Cartoonists Club of Great Britain back at Lakes Festival in October

  By John Freeman on 18 August 2019

  

  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 ›

• Fancy your own Judge Dredd vehicle? (One careful owner…)

  By John Freeman on 17 August 2019

  

  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 ›

• Commando and British Comics Swap-Meet announces special guests

  By John Freeman on 17 August 2019

  

  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

• Side by Side: Comics Tellings of Peterloo

  By John Freeman on 17 August 2019

  

  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

• Malta Comic Con 2019 dates, attendance package deals announced

  By John Freeman on 16 August 2019

  

  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 ›

• Dan Dare Fan Fiction – from the 1950s!

  By John Freeman on 16 August 2019 • ( 1 )

  

  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 ›

• Lakes International Comic Art Festival trails Programme Highlights, including VIZ World Record Challenge

  By John Freeman on 16 August 2019

  

  A world of comic art will return to Kendal for the Lakes International Comic Art Festival (11 – 13th October 2019). Now in its seventh year, backed by the Arts Council and many other supporting organisations, the family-friendly festival will… Read More ›

• Lakes Festival Focus 2019: An Interview with Artist Lucy Sullivan

  By John Freeman on 16 August 2019

  

  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 artist, author and animator Lucy Sullivan, whose… Read More ›

• Classic 2000AD “Dredd” cover art by Mick McMahon on offer in latest Compal Comics auction

  By John Freeman on 15 August 2019 • ( 5 )

  

  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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