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• High street comics retailer WHSmith ranked bottom of annual Which? poll

  By John Freeman on 29 May 2019 • ( 1 )

  

  WHSmith has finished bottom of the Which? annual UK high street shops survey rankings of more than 100 shops for the ninth year in a row, while specialist retailers come out on top. The annual survey of more than 7700… Read More ›

• Roads Not Taken: When Disney almost went Discworld

  By John Freeman on 29 May 2019

  

  Animation designer and children’s author Claire Keane has posted some wonderful concept art for an abandoned Disney project based on Sir Terry Pratchett‘s fourth Discworld novel, Mort,  on her official web site. While that project didn’t go ahead, BBC America’s… Read More ›

• Still on sale – the Cor!! & Buster Humour Special – review round up

  By John Freeman on 29 May 2019

  

  The Cor! & Buster Humour Special is still on sale in WHSmith and selected newsagents for another couple of weeks, so if you’re looking for a brilliant all-ages treat for your kids, why not pop out and buy it now?… Read More ›

• Commando comics mark D-Day 75 with commemorative issues

  By John Freeman on 28 May 2019

  

  75 years ago this year, brave men of many nations stormed the beaches at Normandy, ready to fight tooth and nail, to reclaim occupied land. As part of the D-Day 75 remembrance, DC Thomson Media are releasing a commemorative set… Read More ›

• Unearthed: An unexpected Doctor Who comics crossover with Lost in Space!

  By John Freeman on 27 May 2019 • ( 1 )

  

  The cover of the 1969 Doctor Who annual was Walt Howarth’s last Doctor Who-related work for publisher World Distributors for some time, and its similarity to the cover of a 1967 Gold Key Swiss Family Robinson Comic was highlighted recently on social media.

• Visions from the Upside Down: Stranger Things Art Book out in October

  By John Freeman on 26 May 2019

  

  Publisher Printed in Blood has teamed up with Penguin Random House Del Rey for a new hardcover art book book full of original artwork inspired by the hit Netflix series Stranger Things – and along with an image by Marvel artist Bill Sienkiewicz, it includes art by a terrific illustrator whose stunning early work for Marvel UK captured the imaginations of many…

• Comics Inspiration: How Celebrities have inspired the look of some Comic Characters

  By Colin Noble on 25 May 2019 • ( 5 )

  

  Colin Noble explores how Celebrities have inspired the look of some Comic Characters

• A snapshot of British Comics Fandom in 1970: Fantasy Advertiser #32

  By John Freeman on 25 May 2019 • ( 1 )

  

  David Hathaway-Price continues his brilliant UK Classic Comic Zines project to digitise British comic fanzines across several decades, from their early beginnings in the 1960s and 70s as hand printed low print run titles to more sophisticated, slick looking publications in the 1980s and beyond – adding a ground-breaking Issue of Fantasy Advertiser his invaluable web site.

• Simon Bisley “Slaine” art offered (and much more) in latest Comic Link auction

  By John Freeman on 24 May 2019

  

  The Spring Featured Auction at US auction house Comic Link starts closing next week – and along with rare US comics includes a wide range of original art, from creators that include British artists Simon Bisley, Alan Davis, Dave Gibbons,… Read More ›

• ComicScene 4 spotlights Simon Furman and Geoff Senior’s “To the Death”

  By John Freeman on 24 May 2019

  

  ComicScene Issue 4 is out now in all good comic shops and available through many newsagents – and includes a free 16-page supplement featuring Simon Furman and Geoff Senior‘s new 10 part comic, To The Death. The supplement includes an… Read More ›

• Breaking the Mould: How the GetMyComics team are shaking up comics distribution in the UK

  By John Freeman on 24 May 2019

  

  Independent comic creators can come up with the best stories in the world, but if they can’t get their finished publication – created through crowdfunding, self financed or published by an independent – in front of potential customers, then they’re… Read More ›

• We Read Comics Podcast discusses Archer Coe

  By Joe Gordon on 24 May 2019

  

  The fourth episode of the We Read Comics podcast was recorded this week and is now live on the Radio Summerhall website. As we mentioned in a previous post, this new podcast is a monthly series, roughly following a book… Read More ›

• Pat Mills and Oliviér Ledroit’s “Requiem Vampire Knight” tops sales charts in France

  By John Freeman on 23 May 2019

  

  Requiem: Resurrection by Pat Mills and Oliviér Ledroit is sitting in the Number One sales spot in the fantasy graphic novel chart on Amazon France – an amazing accomplishment, considering it was re-published over three years ago, and it’s apparently… Read More ›

• Crowdfunding Spotlight: Frenemies: The Lost Planet by Yishan Li and Monty Nero

  By John Freeman on 23 May 2019

  

  Yishan Li and Monty Nero have created Frenemies, a sci-fi comic updating the best of classic films like Star Wars, 2001: A Space Odyssey, and Raiders of the Lost Ark with strong LGBTQ and straight characters from around the world…. Read More ›

• StreetCat Bob gets animated series

  By John Freeman on 22 May 2019

  

  UK pay TV children’s channel Sky Kids has commissioned StreetCat Bob, an animated series inspired by the cat that has already been the subject of books and a major feature film. StreetCat Bob is a real-life stray ginger cat, credited… Read More ›

• Crowdfunding Spotlight: BUN&TEA, edited by Claire Napier

  By John Freeman on 22 May 2019

  

  Having been a critic of all-format, all-source comics since 2012 or so – most notably as Editor in Chief at Women Write About Comics between 2017 and 2018, and long before that, a keen reader of British weekly serial comics,… Read More ›

• John McCrea’s solo exhibition opens in Birmingham

  By downthetubes Guests on 22 May 2019

  

  Paul H. Birch reports on the opening of comic artist John McCrea’s solo exhibition at the Birmingham gallery Havill & Travis at Primitivo. Work from throughout John’s long and illustrious career is being showcased, including original cover art drawings framed with… Read More ›

• “Posy Simmonds: A Retrospective” Exhibition opens this week

  By John Freeman on 22 May 2019

  

  Posy Simmonds: A Retrospective opens at London’s House of Illustration on Friday (24th May), running until 15th September. Co-curated by Paul Gravett, author of the recently released Posy Simmonds monograph from Thames & Hudson, it’s the first major British exhibition… Read More ›

• Thirteenth Japan International MANGA Award competition closing date approaches

  By John Freeman on 22 May 2019

  

  The call for entries is open to all over the world for the 13th Japan International Manga Award, organised by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan. The  deadline is 14th June 2019. Previous British winners include Sean Michael Wilson,… Read More ›

• Date set for re-opening of London’s Cartoon Museum

  By John Freeman on 22 May 2019

  

  The new Cartoon Museum will open to the public on Monday 1st July 2019, at its new home on Wells Street, London, near Oxford Circus. The Cartoon Museum has been a fixture of the UK Cartoon and Comics world since… Read More ›

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