By Richard Sheaf If you enjoyed my chat with Tony Esmond on Episode #23 of the Never Iron Anything podcast, here are my notes for the show. Hopefully, there will be something here to pique your interest. Check out the… Read More ›
Bande Dessines – Translated
Titles featured in this category are in the main French bande dessine, published in English.
In Review: The Regiment: The True Story of the SAS – Book 1
Cinebook’s series of factual bandes dessinees entitled Cinebook Recounts comes storming back with the true story of the British Army’s Special Air Service in The Regiment
Jibé’s free, funny 2019 Lakes International Comic Art Festival journal published
The Lakes International Comic Art Festival has just published a wonderful Festival Journal by Jean-Baptiste Pollien, a.k.a. Jibé on their official site, celebrating last year’s weekend-long event in Kendal
In Review: Stig and Tilde: Vanisher’s Island/ Leader of the Pack
If you like your Young Adult graphic novels crammed with adventure, mystery and just a touch of quirky fantasy, then you should check out Stig and Tilde: Vanisher’s Island and Leader of the Pack by Max de Radiguès, both available now from NoBrow…
Limited edition Wally Wood exhibition catalogue now available to order from Festival International de la Bande Dessinée d’Angoulême
Three of the major exhibitions at this year’s Festival International de la Bande Dessinée d’Angoulême in France are accompanied by a substantial, deluxe, limited-edition hardcover catalogues, including the Wallace “Wally” Wood exhibition
Hachette Partworks road tests “Asterix: The Ultimate Collection”
Hachette Partworks recently trialled a proposed Asterix: The Ultimate Collection part work, with a test web site and four-issue regional trial – but at present it’s too early to say if the project will go into full production. Here’s hoping!… Read More ›
In Review: Return To Aldebaran – Episode 1
It is just over ten years ago that I reviewed the very first Worlds Of Aldebaran book to be published in English by Cinebook, The Catastrophe, which actually translated two of the original French books. Since then there have been… Read More ›
In Review: Once Upon a Time in France
An international bestseller with over one million copies sold, the French series Once Upon a Time in France, collected here in one omnibus edition, has won the BDGest’Art Best Scenario Award, BDGest’Arts Album of the Year, and Angouleme International Comics Festival Best Series Award, among many others… and I’m not surprised, because it’s a truly astonishing piece of work, on many levels
Marvel UK’s Mystery European Strips – Can You Help Identify Them?
Author Rob Kirby is close to completing his long awaited book on the history of Marvel UK, From Cents to Pence – but he needs some help identifying a final few strips published in some titles that were first published… Read More ›
In Pictures and In Review: Asterix and the Chieftain’s Daughter – UK launch
Richard Sheaf reports on the UK launch of Asterix and the Chieftain’s Daughter, and gives the new adventure a thumbs up for its take on some of the saga’s younger characters, including newcomer Adrenalin…
New Eagle Times highlights Tintin’s lunar adventure and rare British custom comic, The Shell
The latest edition of EAGLE Times, the magazine of the Eagle Society, devoted to Eagle comic and its many creators, is out now
A Comics Curiosity: The 1990s British “Smurfs Comic”
With a major exhibition dedicated to Peyo’s The Smurfs part of this year’s Lakes International Comic Art Festival, running into November in Kendal, what better time to step back to the 1990s, when Maida Vale-based DeVere Entertainment published a British Smurfs comic?
Dark Horse announces Blacksad: The Complete Stories for 2020 release
US publisher Dark Horse Comics has announced a complete collection of Spanish creators Juan Díaz Canales and Juanjo Guarnido’s award-winning and internationally acclaimed Blacksad series in Blacksad: The Complete Stories – well, to date, anyway…
1970s “Flying Furies”, The Aeronauts, recalled
Picking up on our recent story about Tales from Europe, The Singing, Ringing Tree and The White Horses, who remembers The Aeronauts… or as older readers might remember them, from Lion comic – “The Flying Furies“? Not to be confused… Read More ›
Must have bandes dessinées for your bookshelf, by artist Keith Page
Charlotte Corday and Dan Dare artist Keith Page picks out some of his favourite bandes dessinées… Anyone who has visited a French comics shop will be aware of the vast and bewildering varieties of books displayed. Here are a few… Read More ›
First ever Tintin cover looks set for one million dollar plus sale in June
The first cover appearance of Hergé‘s Tintin, arguably the most popular comic character worldwide, as well as a pair of lots by Osama Tezuka, the artist who has been called “the Japanese equivalent of Walt Disney” and a group of… Read More ›
Asterix returns in an all-new adventure this October, Dogmatix TV series in the works
60 years after he first appeared in the pages of the French comic magazine Pilote, Asterix, the creation of René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo, returns in an all-new album this October – and a new animated TV series, Dogmatix and the Indomitables, is also in the works, although the details of this remain scant so far
In Review: Guantánamo Kid
Guantánamo Kid: The True Story of Mohammed El-Gharani Jérôme Tubiana and Alexandre Franc SelfMadeHero Life in the insanely oil-rich kingdom of Saudi Arabia may be great, if you are rich and male and Saudi. If you are a teenage Muslim… Read More ›
Rebellion to release “Battle Presents: Operation Overlord” war story as direct sales title
Rebellion’s Battle imprint is to bring stories of the beaches of Normandy in 1944 to the direct comics market with Operation: Overlord #1. The international best-selling graphic novel series by writers Michael Le Galli and Bruna Falba, with stunning art by Star… Read More ›
Stunning graphic novel telling origins of the SAS out in September
War comics seem to be getting a new lease of life right now. Following up on DC Thomson’s release of their full colour Commando Presents Ramsey’s Raiders volume, and the serialised release of Battle Presents: Operation Overlord with the latest… Read More ›