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• Twang Your Thing with The Beano!

  By John Freeman on 30 June 2015 • ( 1 )

  

  Suitable for menaces of all ages, JHS have added  an Electric Guitar to their range of Beano-inspired instruments, featuring classic images from the worlds longest-running comic, plastered over its single cutaway full-sized body. The Beano Electric Guitar is the latest addition to the… Read More ›

• Roads Not Taken: Renga, DC Thomson’s Abandoned Rival to 2000AD

  By John Freeman on 30 June 2015 • ( 3 )

  

  Nestling for over 20 years on a long-forgotten hard drive incompatible with modern computers, we’re delighted to be able to finally bring you some of the work that featured in a stunning ‘dummy’ comic, Renga, commissioned by DC Thomson…

• Specsavers backs Lakes International Comic Art Festival with welcome sponsorship

  By John Freeman on 29 June 2015

  

    This year’s Lakes International Comic Art Festival  will start with a bang, not a whimper, thanks to welcome sponsorship from Specsavers – one of several local businesses in Kendal that are backing the event when it returns for a third spectacular year… Read More ›

• Alan Burrows covers 100% Biodegradable, the digital action comic anthology

  By John Freeman on 29 June 2015

  

  Top artist Alan Burrows – best known for his work on Eagle and Red Dwarf – has provided a cover for the latest issue of the science fiction and fantasy digital comic 100% Biodegradable (Issue 9) – available now. The latest… Read More ›

• The Comics That Shook 1950s Britain discovered in the National Archives

  By John Freeman on 29 June 2015 • ( 2 )

  

  Britain’s National Archives is a wonderful repository for many odd things, but you might be forgiven for wondering just what a number of horror comics might be doing lurking in its catalogue. It was certainly a surprise to researcher Emily… Read More ›

• Orbital Comics Marks “Fables” end with Mark Buckingham Guided Tour

  By John Freeman on 29 June 2015 • ( 1 )

  

  As we near the end of Mark Buckingham‘s epic run on DC Comics’s Vertigo Fables with Issue 150, London’s Orbital Comics is presenting a retrospective of the artist’s work, featuring a variety of different pieces from throughout the years. The exhibition opens… Read More ›

• Top Greek cartoonist Arkas leaves Facebook after online attacks

  By John Freeman on 26 June 2015

  

  Top Greek cartoonist Arkas – his identity outside cartooning unknown, by design – has suspended his only social media presence after online abuse. Arkas is one of the most popular and widely-read Greek cartoonists and comics artists snd regarded by… Read More ›

• Titan Comics to publish Manchette’s Fatale in November

  By John Freeman on 26 June 2015

  

  Titan Comics have announced their impending publication of Manchette’s Fatale, a comics adaptation of the work of world-renowned noir crime author, Jean-Patrick Manchette. This edition, adapted by Doug Headline and illustrated by Max Cabanes, has been described by editor Lizzie Kaye as, “Lolita meets The Virgin Suicides.”   In Manchette’s Fatale, Aimée is… Read More ›

• Jim Alexander, Barry Renshaw deliver new Strontium Dog for Dogbreath zine

  By John Freeman on 25 June 2015

  

  Coming soon to the pages of FutureQuake’s Dogbreath is Strontium Dog – Tremor Wings by writer Jim Alexander and artist Barry Renshaw. Jim Alexander co-created Calhab Justice for the Judge Dredd universe but is best known these days for his… Read More ›

• Marvel UK Flashback: The Real Ghostbusters

  By John Freeman on 25 June 2015 • ( 2 )

  

  Phil Boyce, who runs a wonderful blog devoted to the humour comic, Oink, is running a series of ‘Beyond Oink’ features, charting his comic reading down the years. He’s just posted an item on Marvel UK’s The Real Ghostbusters comic,… Read More ›

• Cup of O – Small Press Reviews

  By Owen Watts on 24 June 2015

  

  Hello! Two of the three comics I’ve reviewed this month are from the Bristol Comic Con 2014 – where did that one go? Our creative city’s lone convention this year is now the Bristol Comic and Zine Fair in October. There’ll be a lot… Read More ›

• British Comic Fanzines Digital Archive in the works

  By John Freeman on 24 June 2015 • ( 2 )

  

  For several months now, British comics fan David Hathaway-Price had been gathering and scanning every British comics fanzine that he’s been able to buy or had loaned to him. His aim is to  create a Fanzine archive / repository, celebrating… Read More ›

• British Comic Shop Releases (24th June 2015) – all-new Surface Tension and Resident Alien!

  By John Freeman on 24 June 2015

  

     Here’s our guide to new comics and graphic on sale in British comic shops today (Wednesday 24th June 2015), complementing our monthly list of new British graphic novels and comic collections (June 2015 list here). This list. as usual, focuses primarily… Read More ›

• Enemy Spies Defeated! Intel on latest Commandos on sale now revealed

  By John Freeman on 24 June 2015

  

  Despite the best efforts of enemy spies (and, possibly, a giant snake), the determined team at Commando have managed to slip us the intel on the latest issues of the war comic (Issues 4819-4822) on sale now in all good newsagents… Read More ›

• SICBA Award-nominated “Amongst The Stars” Sampler Released

  By John Freeman on 23 June 2015

  

  Following on from the success of GoodCopBadCop at last summer’s True Believers/ Eagles awards, another Planet Jimbot title,  Amongst the Stars has made the Scottish Independent Comic Book Alliance (SICBA) shortlist for Best Graphic Novel 2015. The full list of nominate titles… Read More ›

• Comics @ Edinburgh International Book Festival 2015

  By Jeremy Briggs on 23 June 2015

  

  The Edinburgh International Book Festival, the world’s largest literary festival which runs from 15 to 31 August 2015 in the Scottish capital’s Charlotte Square Gardens, opens its box office for ticket sales today. As in previous year’s BookFest has a selection… Read More ›

• Happy Birthday, Dogmatix!

  By John Freeman on 22 June 2015

  

  To celebrate the Asterix album’s 50th anniversary of publication in France, Asterix and the Banquet returned to bookshops there earlier this month with two brand new editions – and began a tour of the country with a special exhibition featuring artwork and behind… Read More ›

• Plaything Of Sutekh Issue 4 Released

  By Jeremy Briggs on 21 June 2015

  

  Our friends over at Andersonic, when they aren’t producing that excellent and long running Gerry Anderson fanzine, from time to time change channels from ITV to BBC1 and produce a Doctor Who zine along the same lines called Plaything Of… Read More ›

• Photo Review: East London Comics and Arts Festival 2015

  By Antony Esmond on 20 June 2015

  

  The 4th East London Comics and Arts Festival (ELCAF) was held today in the hip East End of London, just off Mare Street between Hackney and Bethnal Green. Spread between two warehouse style venues  it was once again a combination of… Read More ›

• Ladybird Books “Story of Football” art exhibition at National Football Museum

  By John Freeman on 20 June 2015 • ( 1 )

  

  The National Football Museum is exhibiting a display of original football-inspired artwork from Ladybird Books until the end of October 2015. Celebrating 100 years of Ladybird books, the display features artwork from the Ladybird footballing classic The Story of Football… Read More ›

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