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• British Comic Sales Figures: Winners and Losers (January – June 2016): TOXIC beats off sales woes

  By John Freeman on 12 August 2016

  

  While humour and political comment magazine Private Eye is celebrating another modest increase to its circulation this week, some British comic publishers may be scratching their heads after a mixed bag of sales results were announced – but there’s still plenty of… Read More ›

• Something For the Weekend (w/c 8th August 2016): New Spider-Man, Johnny Red bows out, Nick Dyer on “Judge Anderson”

  By John Freeman on 12 August 2016 • ( 2 )

  

  There’s changes on the UK new stand for Panini‘s Marvel Collector Editions this week with the launch of Volume 6 of Astonishing Spider-Man, on sale now in all good newsagents. A one hundred page special, priced £3.99 (higher than the previously advertised… Read More ›

• Etherington Brothers, ILYA, Sally Kindberg, McGarrys and more line up for Lakes Festival “Family Zone”

  By John Freeman on 11 August 2016

  

  The Lakes International Comic Art Festival (14th -16th October 2016) has announced full details of its Family Zone events, most of them free for comic fans – of all ages – which include an exclusive book launch for a new… Read More ›

• Remembering “The Cartoonist”, Britain’s short-lived broadsheet comic paper

  By John Freeman on 11 August 2016

  

  Yesterday, I did a quick interview with Lee Thomas at BBC Radio Stoke (starts about 11 minutes in, eventually), prompted by the sale of a rare first issue of Action Comics #1, for an eye watering price. The 1938 comic book,… Read More ›

• New Commando stories offer Ram Raiders and Flying Fleas!

  By John Freeman on 10 August 2016 • ( 2 )

  

  Here’s the intel for DC Thomson’s Commando Issues 4939-4942 – on sale now in all good newsagents across the UK and via various digital platforms. Two issues  are set in the Far Eastern grandeur of New Guinea’s truly impressive landscape,… Read More ›

• Comic-Con run turns sour, comic fans warned as similar events still being advertised

  By John Freeman on 10 August 2016 • ( 1 )

  

  Comic fans and running enthusiasts are being warned to be on their guard after families donned fancy dress costumes and headed to Sutton Park for a “fan-freaking-tastic” Comic-Con Run – only to find that it wasn’t taking place. A number of similar events… Read More ›

• Coming Soon: the first-ever Worcester Comic Con

  By John Freeman on 10 August 2016

  

  Taking place at the University of Worcester Arena on Sunday 21st August, with a promised one hundred traders of wonderful things, from comics to film and TV merchandise, the first ever Worcester Comic Con offers a great line up of comics creators as guests, plus appearances… Read More ›

• US Comics Grading Company CBCS Saves 2016 ICE Comic Convention from Cancellation

  By John Freeman on 9 August 2016 • ( 1 )

  

  Running a non profit making comic convention to the high professional standard of The International Comics Expo in Birmingham must be challenging enough, but when the Arts Council pulled their third and final year of funding from the event last… Read More ›

• Comics Dundee: Beyond The Bucket Trail

  By Jeremy Briggs on 9 August 2016

  

  Check out the BEANO and Oor Wullie statues, and other DC Thomson-related things to see in Dundee

• 2000AD’s Dan Dare – in Spanish!

  By John Freeman on 9 August 2016 • ( 1 )

  

  Hibernia Comics has posted another great Dan Dare find on their Facebook page. Featured here are Issue One and Two of the 1970s Spanish Dan Dare comic, reprinting the 2000AD stories. Both  covers are by Spanish artist Josep Maria Miralles. Contents… Read More ›

• Awesome Comics Podcast Episode 58: Jamie Smart

  By John Freeman on 8 August 2016

  

  The guest for the Awesome Comics Podcast Episode 58 is the man behind the mighty Moose Kid Comics, Jamie Smart. As we reported just recently, a new issue of the brilliant digital comic for kids (of all ages) is out now,… Read More ›

• Asterix: The Mansion of the Gods Finally Reaches British Cinemas

  By John Freeman on 8 August 2016

  

  Asterix: The Mansion of the Gods, is finally released in English in UK cinemas on 19th August, in 3D and 2D. The first Asterix 3D motion picture, initially released in France in 2014, finds Asterix and friends still resisting Roman rule… Read More ›

• Striker heads back to The Sun, new projects also in the works

  By John Freeman on 8 August 2016

  

  Striker – one of Britain’s longest running newspaper strips, mainly published in The Sun – is on its way back at last, “and probably very soon”, according to creator Pete Nash. Subject to any last minute hiccups, the strip will… Read More ›

• Comics Dundee: Oor Wullie’s Bucket Trail

  By Jeremy Briggs on 8 August 2016

  

  The city of Dundee is currently in the middle of the art and charity installation Oor Wullies’ Bucket Trail in which painted fibreglass statues of the Sunday Post newspaper’s 80 year old naughty boy character are scattered around the city for… Read More ›

• Injection Volume Two Out This Week, Warren Ellis hints at new Doctor Who inspiration for new story

  By John Freeman on 8 August 2016

  

  Injection Volume Two by Warren Ellis, Declan Shalvey and Jordie Bellaire is out from Image Comics on Wednesday (10th August 2016), on sale in all good comics shops and book shops, digital and physical. Once upon a time, there were five… Read More ›

• The Story of British Comics So Far opens at Woking’s Lightbox

  By Richard Sheaf on 7 August 2016

  

  Yesterday saw a new exhibition open at The Lightbox gallery and museum, Woking that we highlighted earlier this year, which will take visitors on an interactive journey through the past, present and future of sequential art. The Story of British… Read More ›

• Comics @ Edinburgh International Book Festival 2016

  By Jeremy Briggs on 6 August 2016 • ( 2 )

  

  The Edinburgh International Book Festival, the world’s largest literary festival which runs from 13 to 29 August 2016 in the Scottish capital’s Charlotte Square Gardens, opens doors one week from today. While the impressive Stripped ‘festival-within-a-festival’ that was held in… Read More ›

• Dan Dare “Lost Film” eBay find, and Les Edwards’ unused Mekon design

  By John Freeman on 6 August 2016 • ( 3 )

  

  Recently spotted on eBay by Hibernia Comics fan Paul Dowson was this advertisement cut carefully from an October 1975 issue of Variety for a never made Dan Dare film, a project from Phenomenal Film Productions, which owned both the film and… Read More ›

• The Bizarre World (but eye-catching advertising art) of British “Bile Beans”

  By John Freeman on 6 August 2016

  

  Bile Beans? Really? Who on earth would buy such a product? Well, as it turns out, quite a lot of people, swayed it seems by canny advertising, despite the dubious and much challenged health claims… And you can still buy… Read More ›

• In Review: Treves – A Restless Night

  By John Freeman on 5 August 2016

  

  Writer: Tom Ward Art: Luke Parker Letters: Nic J Shaw Editor: Clare Lenton Recommended for mature readers The Book: Set before the events in the brilliant Merrick: The Sensational Elephantman, A Restless Night is loosely based upon a true story… Read More ›

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