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• Lakes Festival Podcast Looks back on 2018

  By John Freeman on 5 January 2019

  

  We may already be enjoying a big Happy New Year already resplendent with inexplicable outrage over new pastry-based products from Greggs, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t time to look back at 2018, a great year in the world of… Read More ›

• Panel to Panel: Dan Slott talks Doctor Who, Freefall Warriors in the spotlight

  By John Freeman on 5 January 2019

  

  Episode #107 of the excellent Doctor Who: Panel to Panel is live – and leads with Marvel Comics writer Dan Slott (Amazing Spider-Man, Fantastic Four) chatting with podcast host Jeremy Bement about Doctor Who comics, history, the current season and… Read More ›

• Red Range returns in “Pirates of Fireworld”

  By John Freeman on 4 January 2019

  

  Ace independent US publisher It’s Alive! has announced that Keith Lansdale, the writer who recently brought you The X-Files and Creepy stories, will unleash his imagination on the historical and somewhat Steampunk world his father, Joe R. Lansdale, created in… Read More ›

• New book lifts the lid on cream of Soviet satire

  By John Freeman on 4 January 2019

  

  A new book delving into one of the best-known examples of Soviet satire has just been published by the University Press of Mississippi. Graphic Satire in the Soviet Union: Krokodil’s Political Cartoons by John Etty lifts the lid on Krokodil, which offered some extraordinary cartoon art within a hugely propagandistic publication

• Clean Living! How Britain’s “Arrow” comic helped promote healthy teeth in the 1960s

  By Richard Sheaf on 3 January 2019

  

  Captain Pugwash creator John Ryan and John Michael Burns contributed to Ivory Castle Arrow

• When Roy of the Rovers sponsored a football club – and a look at football club programmes

  By Richard Sheaf on 3 January 2019

  

  Report by Richard Sheaf, with additional reporting by John Freeman A recent social media post by ex-Fleetway editor Barrie Tomlinson alerted me to a 1990s football programme for St. Alban’s City Football Club, featuring cover art by “Billy’s Boots” artist… Read More ›

• Sneak Peek: Rad Erwank & Conspiracy Dog by Łukasz Kowalczuk, Kek-W and Jack Teagle

  By John Freeman on 3 January 2019

  

  Rad Erwank & Conspiracy Dog is an utterly bonkers 48-page black and white comic available to pre-order now from Diamond or direct from US publisher Alternative Comics. It’s scripted by Łukasz Kowalczuk and 2000AD‘s Kek-W, with art by Jack Teagle… Read More ›

• Black Max soars again in New Year 2000AD

  By John Freeman on 2 January 2019

  

  Legendary British comics villain Black Max returned to the news stand in 2000AD last year – with some of his early adventures in Thunder and Lion from the 1970s also collected – but this week, he’s the weekly title’s cover… Read More ›

• “Mansion of Madness” studio revived?

  By John Freeman on 2 January 2019

  

  Last year, comic creators Lee Robson and Dan Hill, working with ace designer and writer Andi Ewington and others, released the horror anthology Mansion of Madness, featuring stories from some of the best and brightest creators in the comics world… Read More ›

• Latest Astonishing Spider-Man is … Carnage!

  By John Freeman on 1 January 2019

  

  Astonishing Spider-Man Volume 7 #17 is still on sale in the UK from Panini, available from all good newsagents – or on subscription. Price £4.50 for 76 arachnid action-packed pages, this Issue, released last month includes: Venomverse continues! Carnage is… Read More ›

• Brian Bolland “MACH 1” 2000AD cover art on offer for £6000, but concerns raised over sale

  By Richard Sheaf on 1 January 2019

  

  Please note this story has been updated to reflect information on the artwork from its artist, Brian Bolland. Thinking about blowing your entire comic collecting budget (and then some) for the whole of 2019 today? Well, the opportunity is here… Read More ›

• Comic Art Auction Spotlight: Sam Glanzman’s “Haunted Tank”

  By John Freeman on 31 December 2018

  

  Leave it to Sam Glanzman, championship realist among DC’s war-comics crew, to capture an essence of heroism-under-fire in the simplest of short-story vignettes for G.I. Combat #280. In this complete three-page Story, “Prize Shot”, published by DC Comics in 1985,… Read More ›

• WebFind: Look and Learn, Treasure illustrations galore from Holloway Fine Art

  By John Freeman on 30 December 2018

  

  Quite by chance, I came across the eBay page Holloway Fine Art, which is offering hundreds of artworks from classic annuals, books magazines such as Look and Learn and Treasure, including 1980s Famous Five illustrations by Leslie Branton. Also on… Read More ›

• Dundee lecturer Chris Murray investigates “The British Superhero” (and a Marvelman book you should read, too)

  By John Freeman on 29 December 2018

  

  We’re not entirely sure how The British Superhero by the University of Dundee’s Chris Murray slipped under our radar when the University of Mississippi Press published it back in 2017, but we’d be remiss if we didn’t plug it now,… Read More ›

• Journey Planet helps revive ground-breaking 1960s comic zine Heroes Unlimited for one last outing

  By John Freeman on 29 December 2018 • ( 2 )

  

  Forty-nine years in the waiting and the making, Journey Planet recently published Heroes Unlimited #8, an incredible zine of fantastic proportions and wonderful content that bookends the publication that helped kickstart British comics fandom in the 1960s. In December 1966,… Read More ›

• In Review: Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse

  By Tim Robins on 29 December 2018

  

  Review by Tim Robins  The Film: Bitten by a radioactive spider in the subway, Brooklyn teenager Miles Morales suddenly develops mysterious powers that transform him into the one and only Spider-Man. When he meets Peter Parker, he soon realizes that… Read More ›

• Do comics still inspire future scientists and engineers?

  By John Freeman on 28 December 2018

  

  Here’s a curiosity from the days of the original Eagle, comic, released around 1959 – an Eagle Presents British European Airways supplement given away with the title, which prompted me to wonder if the comics of today still inspire readers… Read More ›

• It’s Ice Cold in the new Commando Comics, on sale now!

  By John Freeman on 27 December 2018

  

  Brand new Commando – Issues 5187 – 5190 – are on sale now in all good newsagents from DC Thomson, featuring icy escapes in the Russian wilderness, furious fights alongside the Red Devils, night-vision missions in the Iraqi desert – and… Read More ›

• Titan Magazines British DC Comics titles cease publication

  By John Freeman on 26 December 2018 • ( 6 )

  

  Titan Magazines has announced that it will no longer be publishing its licensed DC Comics range in the UK. All titles on sale now in newsagents are the final issues. The company sent a brief email to subscribers of its… Read More ›

• Season’s Greetings!

  By John Freeman on 24 December 2018 • ( 2 )

  

  Wishing all our readers a very Merry Christmas! John Freeman

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