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• King Kong, wartime Beanos and banned Oz comics – quite a selection in latest ComPal comic auction!

  By John Freeman on February 11, 2017 • ( 1 )

  

  The latest Compalcomics online auction has just launched and offers a fantastic selection of wartime Beanos, pre-war Mickey Mouse Weeklies and copies of Glasgow / Northern Looking Glass, considered the world’s first “comic”, published in Glasgow in 1825. Plus, there’s the chance… Read More ›

• DC Thomson celebrates as Beano sales figures climb in a difficult market

  By John Freeman on February 10, 2017

  

  We reported on the latest ABC circulation figures for British news stand comics earlier today, and we can now reveal that Dundee-based publisher DC Thomson is delighted the Beano, 110% Gaming along with other titles No.1 and The Scots Magazine are celebrating… Read More ›

• Brian Bolland “Joker” Statue added to DC Designer Series

  By John Freeman on February 10, 2017

  

  Straight from the Eisner Award-winning graphic novel Batman: The Killing Joke, acclaimed artist Brian Bolland’s rendition of The Joker gets the Designer Series treatment. Bolland’s version of the Clown Prince of Crime is one of the most iconic, recognisable renditions… Read More ›

• Beyond 2000AD Exhibition Opens at London’s Orbital Comics Tomorrow

  By John Freeman on February 10, 2017

  

  A special exhibition that charts the phenomenal influence of 2000AD on global pop culture opens in London tomorrow. BEYOND 2000AD: The Wider Cultural Impact Of The Galaxy’s Greatest Comic exhibition opens at the UK’s only Eisner Award-winning comic store, Orbital… Read More ›

• Comics Circulation Figures For 2016 Released by ABC

  By Jeremy Briggs on February 10, 2017 • ( 2 )

  

  February is the month when the Audit Bureau Of Circulations (ABC), who describe themselves as “the industry body for media measurement”, release the official circulation figures for Consumer Magazines that are registered with them. That includes comics and comics magazines published… Read More ›

• Big Finish and Hitch Hiker’s producer Dirk Maggs get Best Drama Audie award nominations 

  By John Freeman on February 9, 2017

  

  Big Finish – creators of many much-acclaimed Doctor Who audio adventures and more – and Dirk Maggs, well known for his “Audio Movies” approach to Audio drama, have nominations for Best Drama in the 2017  Audie Awards. One is The… Read More ›

• Campfire’s Beatles Graphic Novel gets Liverpool launch this weekend

  By John Freeman on February 8, 2017

  

  A new graphic telling of the Fab Four’s story – The Beatles: All Our Yesterdays – gets its launch at Write Blend bookshop in South Road, Waterloo in Liverpool on Friday 10th February 2017. Written by Jason Quinn, drawn by… Read More ›

• Front Line Thieves and Lost Legionnaires – new Commando comics on sale this week

  By John Freeman on February 8, 2017 • ( 1 )

  

  Here’s the intel on this week’s Commando comics releases from DC Thomson (Issues 4991 – 4994), on sale in all good newsagents from Thursday 9th February 2017 and various digital platforms… We note the title is heading rapidly toward its… Read More ›

• Something For The Weekend: Time To Celebrate 40 years of 2000AD!

  By John Freeman on February 8, 2017

  

  Squaxx dek Thargo will be out in force celebrating 40 Years of 2000AD in London this weekend – so how could we not mark this momentous event in this week’s British comic and creator-focused new comics round up with a… Read More ›

• New Iron Fist trailer from Netflix reveals more of series characters and plot

  By John Freeman on February 8, 2017

  

  Netflix has just released another teaser for Iron Fist, its latest Marvel Comics-inspired series. If it’s as good as Daredevil, Luke Cage and Jessica Jones, the subscription service will have another great show to encourage comic fans to watch –… Read More ›

• In Review: Slang Pictorial Issue Two by Nick Prolix

  By Antony Esmond on February 8, 2017

  

  Created and published by Nick Prolix 24 pages – Black and White The Story: This is the second issue of Nick Prolix’s one man anthology that comes from the noirly comedic world of his ongoing webcomic The Sheep and the Wolves…. Read More ›

• Kim Newman’s Anno Dracula Issue #1 – Extended Art Preview Unearthed!

  By John Freeman on February 8, 2017

  

  Titan Comics has just revealed the covers and an extended art preview from Anno Dracula #1 – an all-new comic mini-series based on the best selling Anno Dracula novels, written by creator Kim Newman with art by Paul McCaffrey, coloured by Kevin Enhart…. Read More ›

• British Comics Past: Super Naturals

  By Ian Wheeler on February 7, 2017

  

  Super Naturals must surely rank as one of the shortest-lived British comics of all time, with just nine regular issues to its name. Ian Wheeler looks back, with add reporting by John Freeman… This post was last updated on Saturday… Read More ›

• One for 2000AD and Dan Dare fans: Let’s Go To Mars! Game Launched

  By John Freeman on February 7, 2017

  

  A graphic adventure game focusing on the exploration of Mars has been launched by the Institute of Astrophysics of Andalusia, which should appeal to fans of most SF comics or books – of all ages. The app, Let’s Go To… Read More ›

• “Jeff Hawke Junior” Collected At Last by Jeff Hawke Fan Club

  By John Freeman on February 7, 2017 • ( 1 )

  

  Just published by the Jeff Hawke Fan Club and available to members is this collection of Jeff Hawke Jnr., containing all the Jeff Hawke strips from Junior Express weekly. The 128 page book is the same large format as the Club’s COSMOS magazine… Read More ›

• Exclusive Extract – Read Em and Weep Book One: Serial Killer by Pat Mills and Kevin O’Neill

  By John Freeman on February 7, 2017 • ( 1 )

  

  With the 40th Anniversary 2000AD celebration this weekend in London, we’re delighted to bring you this extract from Pat Mills and Kevin O’Neill’s new novel, published by Millsverse Books, set in the wold of 1970s comics publishing…  Be advised this extract is… Read More ›

• John Wagner to ‘revive’ the Dark Judges with new story ‘Dominion’ for Judge Dredd Megazine

  By John Freeman on February 7, 2017

  

  Writer John Wagner (Judge Dredd, A History of Violence) and Nick Percival (Clive Barker’s Hellraiser) are to follow up 2015’s chilling Dark Justice with a new story featuring the infamous Dark Judges. An Alien-style race-against-time Dark Justice saw undead alien… Read More ›

• Britannia and The Mummy writer Peter Milligan signing at Forbidden Planet Newcastle opening day

  By John Freeman on February 7, 2017

  

  As part of the launch day celebrations for Forbidden Planet‘s brand new Newcastle Megastore, writer Peter Milligan will be signing copies of Britannia, collecting Britannia #1 – 4, on Saturday 18th February 2017. In Peter Milligan’s Britannia, published by Valiant Entertainment,… Read More ›

• Andy Holden’s exhibition “As Speed Increases Objects Can Be In Several Places At Once” now at Lancaster University

  By John Freeman on February 6, 2017

  

  The result of five years’ work, Andy Holden’s Laws of Motion in a Cartoon Landscape, now showing at Lancaster Univerity‘s Peter Scott Gallery, presents a fully realised animated theory proposing the world is now best understood as a cartoon. Part-lecture, part-documentary,… Read More ›

• From The Trenches: A Guest’s Eye View of True Believers Comic Festival 2017 by Jessica Martin

  By John Freeman on February 5, 2017 • ( 1 )

  

  Comic creator Jessica Martin, one of many talents at the event, reveals how she’s now a “True Believer” after her trip to Cheltenham this weekend…  On Saturday 5th February, I was a guest at the True Believers Comic Festival in… Read More ›

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