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• Saga, Walking Dead top 2017 comic store books sales chart

  By John Freeman on January 24, 2018

  

  Diamond Book Distributors has announced the top 25 best-selling graphic novels from publishers they distribute to comic shops through 2017, based on sales data gathered from their retailer network and retail partners – and it looks like US publisher Image Comics… Read More ›

• Crowdfunding Spotlight: Sliced Quarterly Volume 2, the Experimental Comic Anthology

  By John Freeman on January 24, 2018

  

  Sliced Quarterly, an experimental comic anthology, is running a crowdfunding campaign to print its second trade paperback collection. The diversity of the strips included offers a fascinating snapshot of creative talent out there in the indie field right now and… Read More ›

• Blake’s 7 40th Anniversary marked with stunning new Inifinity magazine cover by Pete Wallbank

  By John Freeman on January 24, 2018 • ( 2 )

  

  Happy 40th anniversary, Blake’s 7! This month marks 40 years since Terry Nation‘s SF adventure series launched on BBC1, and there’s been no shortage of celebrations – not least of them artist Pete Wallbank‘s marvellous cover art for an upcoming… Read More ›

• In Pictures: Orbital Comics “Kirby Consciousness” Exhibition, Image Comics-inspired exhibition on now

  By John Freeman on January 24, 2018

  

  For anyone who couldn’t get to the “Kirby Consciousness” exhibition at Orbital Comics in London, here are a few hurried snaps Richard Sheaf took the other evening, offering plenty of examples of Jack Kirby comics and artists taking their own spin on his work. In… Read More ›

• New Year, New Commandos – on sale this week!

  By John Freeman on January 24, 2018

  

  Brand new Commando comics from DC Thomson (Issues 5091-5094) go on sale in all good newsagents this Thursday (25th January 2018). This time out, a team of Nazi Fallinschirmjager paratroopers are in the loose in the Scottish Highlands during World War… Read More ›

• In Review: A Night With Friends For Nosferatu

  By Antony Esmond on January 24, 2018

  

  By Grisso Published by Enigmatic Labs – $3.00 – Black and White mini comic Warning: Adult humour and comment below! The Story: We get to meet some of Nosferatu’s friends. Lead by Nosferatu, they have an intervention with the elusive… Read More ›

• The Force is strong in Graeme Neil Reid’s January Art Raffle!

  By John Freeman on January 24, 2018

  

  Doctor Who and 2000AD artist Graeme Neil Reid‘s first Art Raffle of 2018 is live and there is a brother and sister (spoilers) to choose between in this Star Wars: A New Hope themed month. Graeme is a Scottish artist… Read More ›

• In Review: Start Again #1

  By Antony Esmond on January 24, 2018

  

    Written and created by Jamie Me Art by Toni Doya Colours by Sean Callahan Available through Vault29 | £3.50 | Full Colour NOTE: Adult and Maure Themes The Story: Start Again is a superhero boy meets girl comic set… Read More ›

• British comic fanzines celebrated in style in FANSCENE – a new fanzine, of course!

  By John Freeman on January 23, 2018

  

  I’m delighted to report the release of FANSCENE, a very special celebration of over fifty years of comics fandom in Ireland and the UK. It’s a privilege to have been asked to be part of this free mammoth publication put… Read More ›

• Johnny Nero’s strange new adventures in India: or, how Women’s Liberation helped a comics cheat

  By John Freeman on January 23, 2018

  

  In the third of a series of articles, publisher, comics creator and historian of Tamil comics Nathan Viswa reveals some more disturbing and bizarre instances of British comics conflagration and copyright theft on the Indian sub-continent… In the previous case… Read More ›

• Petrichor by Gareth A. Hopkins – An Unusual Review for an Unusual Book

  By Antony Esmond on January 23, 2018

  

  “The war rages. People are slain. Vince Hunt decides he doesn’t like pork pies. This week, Dan Butcher doesn’t imagine painfully murdering someone on the commute – and the world will never be the same again.” Yes, you’re absolutely right…. Read More ›

• 14-18 NOW “Traces of the Great War” international comic anthology announced

  By John Freeman on January 22, 2018 • ( 1 )

  

  Kendal’s Lakes International Comic Art Festival has announced Traces of the Great War, a new and ambitious anthology publication exploring the traces and impact of the World War One on our lives today. Featuring over 20 internationally acclaimed comic artists and writers,… Read More ›

• A Few Thoughts on The Human Beings Issue 4 from SJ McCune

  By Antony Esmond on January 22, 2018

  

  The Human Beings Issue 4 Written and drawn by SJ McCune Published by Millicent Barnes Comics “I’m already in a different place. I left where. I let the tether out more and more. I am losing sense of where I… Read More ›

• London’s Lever Gallery to host Sixties-inspired “Uncovered” exhibition

  By John Freeman on January 22, 2018

  

  London’s Lever Gallery – a commercial art gallery devoted to post-war lifestyle illustration – is to showcase a selection of rare, original cover Pulp Art illustrations from the 1960s and early 70s next month. Artists selected for Uncovered: Illustrating the… Read More ›

• 2000AD-inspired Lawgiver convention returns to Bristol in May

  By John Freeman on January 21, 2018

  

  Tickets for the 2000AD-inspired LAWGIVER 4 event at the end of May in Bristol are now on sale. “If you enjoyed 2000AD’s 40th last year,then this is the convention you want to be at this year,” say the organisers of… Read More ›

• Could a Captain Britain TV series be back on the cards?

  By John Freeman on January 20, 2018

  

  Updated 16:36: Could a possible barrier to a Captain Britain TV series now have been put behind the team who were working on such a “Producer’s Pitch” for such a project, back in 2016? Well, forgive us in advance if… Read More ›

• Sneak Peek: Wild’s End: Journey’s End by Dan Abnett and INJ Culbard, out in June

  By John Freeman on January 20, 2018

  

  BOOM! Studios has announced Wild’s End: Journey’s End, a full-length graphic novel conclusion to the celebrated, anthropomorphic SF trilogy, will be released in June 2018. Written by Dan Abnett (Guardians of the Galaxy, Aquaman Rebirth) and illustrated by INJ Culbard… Read More ›

• Star Wars: The Last Jedi Art Director Kevin Jenkins joins Portsmouth Comic Con line-up

  By John Freeman on January 19, 2018

  

  With the news that Star Wars: The Last Jedi was the biggest film at the UK and Irish box office in 2017, Portsmouth’s newest Comic Con has announced that ILM London’s supervising art director Kevin Jenkins will be attending the… Read More ›

• In Review: Mockingbird: Nightmare on Another Planet by Flix Gillett

  By John Freeman on January 19, 2018

  

  By Flix Gillett Self Published – Limited Print Run 128 Pages The Book: 128 pages of Mockingbird’s space adventures, collecting the first three issues of Space: Out of this World with an additional 35 plus pages (that would have been… Read More ›

• Acclaimed Spainish comic artist Luis García Mozos retrospective exhibition announced

  By John Freeman on January 19, 2018

  

  Spanish cartoonist, editor, illustrator and painter Luis García Mozos – perhaps best known in the UK for his work for Warren Publishing on titles like Creepy – has just confirmed the wonderful news that he is going to have a… Read More ›

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