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• In Pictures: Cardiff Independent Comic Expo 2018

  By Antony Esmond on June 4, 2018

  

  Well. That was a blooming good Comic Convention! The Cardiff Independent Comic Expo was a big deal for a couple of personal reasons. Myself and my Awesome Comics Podcast buddies, Vince Hunt and Dan Butcher (including the mighty Nick Prolix)… Read More ›

• Comics @ Borders Book Festival 2018

  By Jeremy Briggs on June 3, 2018

  

  The Borders Book Festival in the Scottish town of Melrose, perhaps best known for its Abbey and the Melrose Sevens rugby tournament, is not a literature festival that normally covers comics in any great depth but that has changed this… Read More ›

• Comics Summit heads to Cheltenham in July

  By John Freeman on June 3, 2018

  

  The Comics Summit, a brand-new event set up by creators, for creators has announced it will now take place across the weekend of 14 – 15th July in Cheltenham. The creating comics event, organised by Cheltenham-based Jon Lock of Big… Read More ›

• New Gerry Anderson UFO Collection released ahead of second SHADO Con

  By John Freeman on June 3, 2018

  

  Ahead of the second SHADO Con dedicated to Gerry Anderson’s alien invaders series, ITV have quietly released a new complete UFO DVD sporting new cover artwork. The series – Anderson’s first ongoing live action TV show – was previously available… Read More ›

• Glenrothes Comic Con returns to the Rothes Halls next Saturday – 9 June 2018

  By Jeremy Briggs on June 2, 2018

  

  Last year Fife Council put on the inaugural Glenrothes Comic Con in the town’s Rothes Halls with artist Gary Erskine as the event’s Creative Director. Gary’s participation ensured that the event was a truly comics flavoured comic con and the organiser’s… Read More ›

• Crowdfunding Spotlight: How Irmantas Povilaika hopes to bring some classic Ken Reid comics back into print

  By John Freeman on June 2, 2018

  

  When we recently reported on a plan to bring some of artist Ken Reid’s humour comics back into print with a crowdfunding appeal – “Frankie Stein” and the “The Nervs” to name but two – British comic fans greeted the… Read More ›

• Creating Comics: Atomeka publisher Dave Elliott’s plan to save the US comics industry

  By John Freeman on June 2, 2018

  

  Over the last few years, Atomeka Press publisher Dave Elliott has stood by and frustratingly watched as the US comic book industry continues to devour itself like the mythical Ouroboros, the snake that ate its own tail. Last week, he… Read More ›

• In Review: Bloke’s Progress by Kevin Jackson and Hunt Emerson

  By John Freeman on June 1, 2018

  

  By Kevin Jackson (writer) and Hunt Emerson (Artist) Published by Knockabout Comics ISBN 9780861662715 £12.99 Published May 24th 2018 The Book: Darren Bloke is an ordinary, hard-working stiff until a lottery win changes – and ruins – his life. He… Read More ›

• Blitzkrieging Panzers! New Commando comics on sale on Thursday!

  By John Freeman on May 29, 2018

  

  Brand new Commando (Issues 5127 – 5130) are on sale in all good newsagents from DC Thomson across the UK on Thursday. Evade Blitzkrieging Panzers in Belgium, lead a squad of Polish criminals straight against bloodthirsty Gestapo soldiers, dodge desert… Read More ›

• George R R Martin’s “The Ice Dragon” set to become animated feature

  By John Freeman on May 29, 2018

  

  Warner Bros is developing George R R Martin’s fantasy novel, The Ice Dragon into an animated film, with the Game of Thrones creator on board as producer. First published in 1979 in Orson Scott Card’s short story collection entitled “Dragons… Read More ›

• Oo-de-lally! What a set of Disney inspired goodies up for grabs in Graeme Neil Reid’s May Art Raffle

  By John Freeman on May 29, 2018

  

  Not only will one person walk away with an original landscape scene based on a classic Disney animated film but a second winner will receive a watercolour original of that wicked evil fairy Maleficent in artist Graeme Neil Reid’s monthly raffle…. Read More ›

• Coverless Batman #1 sells for £8200 in UK comic auction

  By John Freeman on May 28, 2018

  

  A coverless copy of Batman #1, estimated to sell for between £2000 – 2,500 (somewhat less than its US valuation) has just sold for an astonishing £8,200 in an online auction yesterday. Comic Book Auctions offered the rarity along with… Read More ›

• Comics Uncovered postponed, merged with ICE Birmingham in September

  By John Freeman on May 28, 2018

  

  The comic creator-focused event Comics Uncovered, announced in February, will now be part of the ICE Birmingham line up in September and will not take place in July as previously announced. “Due to circumstances beyond my control I have had… Read More ›

• How so many British Adventure Comics became just one – Eagle – in the 1990s

  By downthetubes Guests on May 27, 2018

  

  Over on his brilliant Rusty Staples site, 2000AD writer Michael Carroll has begun a series of articles tracing the history of British comics, creating a series of “family trees” showing various mergers and more down the years. It’s something Alan… Read More ›

• Lawgiver 2018! What a Day!

  By Antony Esmond on May 27, 2018

  

  I’ve always been a 2000AD fan but never quite got into the message board scene that they have of recent become known for. It’s an ace comic and full of some of the best and most imaginative comics you’ll see… Read More ›

• South London Comic and Zine Fair returns!

  By John Freeman on May 27, 2018

  

  South London Comic and Zine Fair returns to Stanley Halls for a second year in July. The event, taking place Saturday 14th July 2018, will once again host a cornucopia of London’s most talented zine and alternative comic creators and throw a spotlight the capital’s most… Read More ›

• In Preview – “SUTRA: Songs from the World of Om” by Andy Barron

  By Antony Esmond on May 27, 2018

  

  Created by Andy Barron The Story: The creatures of the World of Om return and navigate the landscape that in many ways mirrors our own. This is a world of beauty and savagery. It reveals much about these characters and… Read More ›

• A Class Act: Martin Rowson’s graphic take on The Communist Manifesto

  By John Freeman on May 27, 2018

  

  SelfMadeHero recently marked the 200th anniversary of Karl Marx’s birth with a graphic novel adaptation of The Communist Manifesto, created by Guardian cartoonist Martin Rowson – and the book has gone down a storm. Published in 1848, at a time… Read More ›

• Marvel UK Comics That Never Were: Rourke versus Wolverine, versus… Monark Starstalker?

  By John Freeman on May 26, 2018

  

  Here’s an item from my archives that should interest some Marvel UK fans – Liam Sharp’s fax of our creator-owned heroine, Rourke, created for STRIP, alongside Marvel US heroes Monark Starstalker and Wolverine. I’ve written about this a little before,… Read More ›

• Creating Comics: Why British publishers attempts to launch a graphic novels line keep failing, and how to do it better

  By downthetubes Guests on May 26, 2018

  

  Eisner Award-nominated editor, writer and publishing consultant Tim Pilcher ponders the problems getting a successful graphic comics line off the ground for British publishers… Lately I’ve been musing on why it is that traditional British book publishers have never really… Read More ›

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