As we’ve previously reported, top comics writer Warren Ellis will be headlining the Comics Conference at this year’s Dundee Literary Festival, but the Festival has now also released details of its planned exhibition dedicated to the 1980s SF comic Starblazer,… Read More ›
After critical acclaim for Cancertown, Burke and Hare by writer Martin Conaghan, artist Will Pickering and letterer Paul McClaren is the next book from Insomnia Publications, which will be launched at the British International Comic Show) in early October. The… Read More ›
With the successful Scottish comics convention Hi-Ex over for this year and already confirmed as going ahead next year, the countdown to the next major Scottish comics event of the year is now in full swing. The third Dundee University… Read More ›
Warren Ellis and Alan Grant are to headline Comics Day at this year’s Dundee Literary Festival. The pair will give a talk about their careers at the festival on 28 June, which will also include a session devoted to 2000AD,… Read More ›
As previously noted, Panini UK has just released A Cold Day in Hell, its first collection of Doctor Who strips featuring the Seventh Doctor, played on TV by Sylvester McCoy, in May 2009. downthetubes has now published an in-depth ‘strip… Read More ›
• Over on Comic Book Resources, Brian Cronin has just completed a month of posting reviews of a different self-published comic book each day. Check out the archive of reviews here • Meanwhile, Matthew Badham has perhaps taken a leaf… Read More ›
Renegade Arts Entertainment have released more information about Channel Evil, a stunning black and white title from the fevered imaginations of Alan Grant and Shane Oakley, which launches in April. Co-published with Belfast-based Berserker Comics, publishers of The Dead, the… Read More ›
Classical Comics and Panini artist Jon Haward has a new blog, Haward Art House, where he’s posting many a splendid piece of art from his burgeoning and impressive portfolio, including this cartoon featuring his “Tales of the Buddha” character that… Read More ›
Hi-Ex 2, currently Scotland’s only comics festival, will be “bigger and better” this weekend when it opens in Eden Court, Inverness, tomorrow. Organisers Richmond Clements and Vicky Stonebridge are determined to make Hi-Ex and annual event, even though bad weather… Read More ›
It seems to have been a day for demons and devilry, because just as we plug Cy Dethan’s Falk project (see news story), Alan Grant pops up, talking about his new comic Church of Hell, which is on sale this… Read More ›