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• Looking back at Battle Action Force

  By Luke Williams on September 18, 2018 • ( 1 )

  

  Many older British comic fans will remember Marvel UK’s Action Force comic, but the team had another home – in issues of IPC’s Battle in the early 1980s. Luke Williams looks back at the stories… By the early 1980s, sales… Read More ›

• Power Pack of Ken Reid books must be won!

  By John Freeman on September 18, 2018

  

  Earlier this year, after years of waiting, a crowdfunding campaign was launched to collect all of humour cartoonist Ken Reid‘s Odhams comic strips of the 1960s – featured in Wham!, Smash!, and Pow! – into a pair handsome official hardback collections. The limited collections are now on sale –… Read More ›

• Lakes Festival Focus 2018: Comics Writer John Ferguson, creator of “Saltire”

  By John Freeman on September 17, 2018

  

  Every year, in the countdown to the Lakes International Comic Art Festival, we bring you a series of interviews with guests at the event. Over 70 are attending in 2018 in October (and that’s not including creators you’ll find in… Read More ›

• In Preview: “Adrift” by John Tucker

  By Antony Esmond on September 17, 2018

  

  Adrift Created by John Tucker 40 pages – Black and White – £2 Launching at Thought Bubble Festival this month The General Idea: This is a world exactly like ours. Full of motorways and people and forks. One day, gravity… Read More ›

• Beano gains Guinness World Record for Finish the Comic Strip” competition

  By John Freeman on September 17, 2018

  

  Beano has achieved a new Guinness World Records title at the opening of the new V&A Dundee, launching the world’s largest competition to finish a unique comic strip. The iconic British children’s entertainment brand received an excess of 650 entrants… Read More ›

• Dan Dare and Comic Book Movies in the Lakes Festival Podcast Spotlight!

  By John Freeman on September 17, 2018

  

  In a bumper episode of the Lakes International Comic Art Festival Podcast, Ian Loxam and Nikki Bates chat to Andrew Mark Sewell and Richard Kurti of B7 Media about the Dan Dare Audio Adventures, which have been airing on BBC… Read More ›

• New Frank Hampson exhibition opens in Southport, launch event next week

  By John Freeman on September 15, 2018

  

  Following up on our earlier post, an exhibition of art by Dan Dare creator Frank Hampson has just opened at The Atkinson, in Southport, Lancashire – where both the character and Eagle comic were “born” in the 1950s – and… Read More ›

• Collecting Comics: The Strange Case of the War Comic Cover “Twins”

  By Colin Noble on September 15, 2018

  

  Richard Sheaf and I recently investigated the way British war comics used to re-use cover art, and this article reveals how two British comic companies used the same art on different titles… For those of you familiar with my Nothing… Read More ›

• Orbital Comics announces “Art of Arthur Ranson” exhibition

  By John Freeman on September 15, 2018

  

  Orbital Comics in London will be hosting an exhibition by British comics legend Arthur Ranson. The show will run from 5th October to 4th November 2018, and will feature original artwork spanning Arthur’s illustrious career. In addition, Orbital will host the UK… Read More ›

• In Review: We Shall Fight Until We Win: a Century of Pioneering Political Women

  By Joe Gordon on September 14, 2018

  

  Edited by Laura Jones, Heather McDaid & Sha Nazir 404 Ink / BHP Comics Review by Joe Gordon Two small Indy Scottish publishers, BHP Comics (who are also behind the Glasgow Comic Con and the Edinburgh Comic Art Festival) teamed… Read More ›

• In Review and in Pictures: Edinburgh International Book Festival 2018

  By Joe Gordon on September 14, 2018

  

  Joe Gordon reports on this year’s annual Books gathering in Scotland’s capital… I’ve just been enjoying a couple of weeks at the world’s largest literary festival, the Edinburgh International Book Festival, seeing a number of fascinating author events and also… Read More ›

• Lakes Festival Focus 2018: graphic reportage illustrator Victoria Lomasko

  By John Freeman on September 14, 2018

  

  Every year, in the countdown to the Lakes International Comic Art Festival, we bring you a series of interviews with guests at the event. Over 70 are attending in 2018 in October (and that’s not including creators you’ll find in… Read More ›

• Comic Scene Issue 2 Celebrates 80 Years of The Beano, giant-size Christmas Special announced

  By John Freeman on September 14, 2018

  

  ComicScene UK Issue 2 is in comic stores and available to order online now, celebrating 80 years of the Beano and humour comics. This issue includes interviews with Emily McGorman Bruce, Tim Quinn and Dicky Howett, Frank Quitely and the… Read More ›

• Britain’s Coolest Comic Convention Returns to Birmingham on Saturday

  By John Freeman on September 14, 2018

  

  With the autumn convention season now in full swing it’s time for the spotlight to shine on England’s Second City once again as flocks of comics fans and cosplayers descend onto Birmingham City Centre for the annual International Comic Expo… Read More ›

• In Memoriam: Terry Wiley – a tribute by Jay Eales, Selina Lock and other friends

  By John Freeman on September 14, 2018

  

  The British comics community was stunned by the news of the passing of award-winning comic creator Terry Wiley, a key figure of the independent scene for decades, after a long battle with cancer. He was 56. Here, Jay Eales, Selina… Read More ›

• Creating Comics: Marc Jackson, the Man from GOOF!

  By John Freeman on September 13, 2018

  

  Earlier this year, comic creator Marc Jackson turned digital publisher and launched GOOF!, a new online subscription only title that features a host of comics talents. Three issues in, GOOF! is going from strength to strength, but it’s a project… Read More ›

• Artist John Higgins joins Lakes International Comic Art Festival line-up

  By John Freeman on September 13, 2018

  

  Award-winning comic artist John Higgins has been added to the line up for this year’s Lakes International Comic Art Festival, running 12th – 14th October in Kendal, Cumbria. John’s career as a freelance comic artist started in 1977 soon after… Read More ›

• Lakes Festival Focus 2018: Kripa Joshi, creator of Miss Moti

  By John Freeman on September 13, 2018

  

  UPDATE – Tuesday 9th October 2018: Unfortunately, Kripa Joshi has had to cancel here appearance at this year’s Festival due to illness. We wish her a speedy recovery. We’ve left this interview in place so you can find out more… Read More ›

• Comics and Beer? No-one’s going to find that attractive, right? But if you do…

  By John Freeman on September 13, 2018

  

  . For those of you who once shocked the French in Angoulême during their annual BD Festival by drinking bars dry, and those of you who’ve laughed when hotels fail to understand some comic fans capacity for drinking… there’s good… Read More ›

• League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The Tempest #1 reprints in comic shops now, along with #2

  By John Freeman on September 12, 2018

  

  It’s a Top Shelf Two-in-One! Issue #1 of Alan Moore & Kevin O’Neill‘s final project, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The Tempest sold out immediately upon release, but reprints are now back in stock… along with the brand-new issue #2! Head to your… Read More ›

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