Andy Fanton, Mike Collins, Colleen Douglas and more will appear at the White Rock’s first con
Andy Fanton
Exclusive Interview: Portsmouth Comic Con 2025 Guest Andy Fanton
Hi-jinks with Hamsters with Hammers!
Beat boredom with the new Beano, as “Angel Face Investigates”…
Join the crusade against boredom in the latest BEANO!
BEANO celebrates Doctor Who’s 60th anniversary
The Bash Street Kids go all timey-wimey this week in BEANO
Happy Birthday, BEANO, 85 today!
Happy birthday to the BEANO gang!
From The Trenches: David Baillie’s “Behind The Scenes” Portsmouth Comic Con Retrospective
Comic creators, cosplayers, traders and thousands of fans attended Portsmouth Comic Con recently…
David Sutherland’s final weekly “Bash Street Kids” appears in BEANO on Wednesday
David’s final “Bash Street Kids” for the weekly comic appears on Wednesday
Dave McKean, Esad Ribic, among first guests announced for Portsmouth Comic Con 2023
First guests announced for this smashing event, returning next June
Happy Birthday, Bash Street Kids!
Cartoonist Lew Stringer reminds us that The Bash Street Kids first appeared 68 years ago this week in The Beano, in the strip,”When the Bell Rings”, back in 1954…
Hallowe’en BEANO is a perfect starting point for new readers!
If you haven’t bought it yet, this week’s Hallowe’en-themed BEANO is a perfect jump on board point for new readers
In Review: Beano and Dandy Annuals 2022
Peter Duncan gives an annual treat for BEANO and The Dandy fans the once over.. er, twice over – oh, all right, he can’t put them down!
Overwhelming Majority of Artists and Content Confirmed for new August Date of Portsmouth Comic Con
The team behind Portsmouth Comic Con have been overwhelmed with support following last week’s decision to move the date due to the ongoing global Coronavirus Pandemic
Happy Birthday to the Bash Street Kids, 65 years young!
The Bash Street Kids have been in Beano for 65 years, and this week’s issue of the brilliant humour comic offers an epic tale from Andy Fanton – and we’re delighted he had time for a quick chat about it –… Read More ›
Andy Fanton pens “A Tale of Two Scottish Cities” for Jurys hotel chain
Jurys had a hotel in Edinburgh and one in Glasgow… but now they have two in each city and to celebrate the recent launch of their new accommodation, they created this comic strip all about both great cities… it’s Shakespeare with a Scotch Twist!… Read More ›
Beano, Dandy Annuals mix the old and the new for 2014
With folk buying for Christmas even earlier than ever to spread the cost, here’s a quick reminder that Britain’s best-selling comic, The Beano celebrates its 75th birthday this year and the annual is still sale now in all good bookshops,… Read More ›
Andy Fanton takes over The Beano
Comic creator Andy Fanton seems to be on a mission to take over the Beano this week, – he wrote this week’s Little Plum, Ball Boy and the issue features his first ever script for Beano legends The Bash Street… Read More ›
New British comic fanzine, Atomic Comic, launches
The first issue of a new fanzine about British comics, Atomic Comic, has been launched, and is available now for free as a digital download. The 36 page issue, the work of Harry Rickard and George Shiers, includes an interview… Read More ›
British comics on the UK news stand – where next?
Last week, I was contacted by two newspapers, the Sunday Times and the Independent on Sunday, to offer my views on the state of the British comic industry. Specifically, comics on sale in UK newsagents. The requests were prompted by… Read More ›
The new Dandy: Who Did What, then?
Following up on yesterday’s post about the new Dandy, editor Craig Graham has kindly taken time out of his busy schedule to give fans a run down of the creative team behind the brilliant revamp revealed in Issue 3508, which… Read More ›
Dandy relaunches – and returns to comics format
(Updated 27/10/10) The Dandy – the real, comic strip driven Dandy – is back this week with a vengeance, ditching the magazine-style, TOXIC-inspired magazine format of Dandy Xtreme in favour of a weekly title with a £1.50 cover price. As… Read More ›