Inspired by their love of the 1970s magazine Tomb of Dracula and 1980s comics Scream and Misty, Paragon editor Dave Candlish and Matthew McLaughlin – creator of El Bigote, the undead Mexican bandit – combine to bring a new indie… Read More ›
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Belfast ‘Barcamp" announced for comic creators
(with thanks to Andy Luke): The date has been confirmed for the second Comics Barcamp in the English speaking world – essentially an “unconference”, a creative business brainstorming seminar, run along communal lines. To take place at Blick Studios in… Read More ›
Girl Genius web comic creators Phil and Kaja Foglio head for Cambridge
Phil and Kaja Foglio, creators of the steampunk web comic Girl Genius (www.girlgeniusonline.com), are to be Guests of Hounour at the Congenial convention in Cambridge next month. Taking place over 10-12th August 2012, Congenial is an SF and role-playng convention… Read More ›
Tube Surfing: British Artists – Interviews and Unpublished Art
There has been a small flurry of British artists getting interviewed recently. Alex Ronald, who has worked as an artdroid for 2000AD in the past and is now getting a lot of attention for the Vampire Vixens Of The Wehrmacht… Read More ›
Andrew Wildman charts a new Horizon, seeking crowdfunding for comics project
After many months of preparation and deliberation, comic creator Andrew Wildman‘s official fundraising and pre-order campaign for his Horizon project has begun, using the crowdfunding web site indiegogo.com. The project focuses on the story of Ali, a 15 year old… Read More ›
Digital Comics Week for scholars
The US-based academic collaboration In Media Res is putting Digital Comics in the spotlight this week with a contribution from highly-acclaimed comic creator Mark Waid, who is launching his own web comics this summer. The series of presentations are sure… Read More ›
Cardiff Comic Expo line-up revealed
Ticket sales for this year’s Cardiff Comic Expo next month (25th-26th February) are booming – and are expected to increase further with publication of the event’s schedule, outlined in full below. In addition to the event itself, show producer Mike… Read More ›
Shane Oakley: Albion Artist
Interview first published: 23rd February 2007, links updated July 2019 Titan Books recently released their edition of the collected Albion, Wildstorm’s welcome revival of many British comics heroes owned by IPC. The trade offers the complete story – with some… Read More ›
Falklands 25: Operation Corporate in Comics
25 years ago, Britain was at war over islands in the South Atlantic many Britons had never heard of – and some at the time even thought were part of the Shetlands. Jeremy Briggs examines the comics that featured the… Read More ›
War of Words: An interview with Calum Laird
In December 2007 I was fortunate enough to interview Calum Laird, who edits DC Thomson’s Commando. The interview was conducted as research for an article about writing and Calum was very generous with his time. I felt it seemed a shame to waste… Read More ›