A tribute to the comics writer best known for his work on titles such as Battle and Buster
Charley’s War
Pat Mills to talk Charley’s War at Birmingham Creative Networks event, strip to get “reloaded” treatment
Pat Mills is to give a talk for Birmingham’s Creative Networks next week (Thursday 25th February). Pat is a UK comic legend – described by some as the ‘Godfather of British comics’, he was an integral part of the UK comics… Read More ›
Curating Charley’s War: An Interview with Titan’s collection editor Simon Ward
Last year, I chatted to Simon Ward, who edited the tenth volume of Charley’s War for Titan Books. Some quotes from the conversation were used in an article that was published in the last issue of Comic Heroes magazine. Anyway,… Read More ›
Charley’s War “Micro Site” joins DownTheTubes
The Charley’s War web site formerly hosted as part the SevenPennyNightmare sites has a new home here on DownTheTubes. I’d like to thank Moose Harris of SevenPennyNightmare for very kindly hosted the semi-official site dedicated to the World War One comic strip created by Pat Mills and… Read More ›
Commando Marches On: An Interview with Editor Calum Laird
Last year, I chatted to Calum Laird, Editor of Commando, for an article about “Charley’s War” – the seminal comic strip created by Pat Mills and Joe Colquhoun that ran in Battle Picture Weekly from 1979 until 1985. We… Read More ›
Weeping Angels stalk the Western Front in upcoming Tenth Doctor comic
Wednesday 7th January 2015 sees the release of Doctor Who: The Tenth Doctor #6 by Robbie Morrison and Flash Gordon artist Daniel Indro, and features The Doctor and Gabby facing the terror of Weeping Angels in the trenches of the… Read More ›
Pat Mills To Talk “Charley’s War” at University of Liverpool
Charley’s War co-creator Pat Mills will challenge the current revisionist “spin” of that century old conflict at a University of Liverpool talk later this month. Pat, who is a Visiting Professor in the Department of English, (he was given an honorary professorship by the University back in 2011)… Read More ›
Pat Mills to challenges Great War revisionists with University of Liverpool lecture
Charley’s War co-creator Pat Mills will challenge the current revisionist “spin” of that century old conflict at a University of Liverpool talk this month. Pat, who is a Visiting Professor in the Department of English, (he was given an honorary professorship by the University… Read More ›
In Review: Goddamn This War! – Tardi with Pat Mills
Goddamn this war!: Tardi with Pat Mills Monday 10th November 2014 7.00pm – Foyles Bookshop My anticipation of the meeting of minds between Pat Mills and Jacques Tardi is so combustible that they should really advertise this… Read More ›
Charley’s War Comes to Plymouth
Artwork from the Battle comic strip “Charley’s War” which depicted the horrors of the World War One battlefields to audiences young and old goes on show at Plymouth University this week. “Charley’s War”, first published in the late 1970s by writer Pat Mills… Read More ›
Creators @ Lakes International Comic Art Festival 2014: Part 1
‘Welcoming’ is a good description of the second Lakes International Comic Art Festival held over the weekend of 17-19 October 2014 in Kendal in the Lake District. After the inaugural festival last year had proven popular, this year everything seemed… Read More ›
In Review: The Lakes International Comic Art Festival – The First Timer’s View
(Updated with photos: 21 Oct 2014) I didn’t manage to get to the Lakes International Comic Art Festival when it started up last year so it was on my ‘to do’ list for this year. I was born in Cumbria and… Read More ›
Panel Borders: Pat Mills’ Great War comics
Continuing a month of shows about war comics, on today’s Panel Borders radio show Alex Fitch talks to Pat Mills, one of the acclaimed masters of the genre. Alex and Pat discuss the completion of Titan Books’ reprints of… Read More ›
Titan Books releases “Charley’s War” omnibus
Titan Books is to release Charley’s War: A Boy Soldier in the Great War, a terrific omnibus collection of Charley’s War stories on 8th August, which features all-new scans of many pages direct from original art by Joe Colquhoun. While the… Read More ›
Sneek Peek: Great War in Comics Exhibition, featuring “Charley’s War”, “White Death”
Marking the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War, Kendal’s Abbot Hall Art Gallery (currently exhibiting an incredible exhibition on British Surrealism) and the Lakes International Comic Art Festival are bringing together for the first time the work… Read More ›
Charley’s War art exhibition in Swanage next month
Artwork by the late Joe Colquhoun from the seminal World War One comic story Charley’s War, which featured in weekly comic Battle, will be on show at Durlston Country Park near Swanage next month. Created by arrangement with Joe’s family, the event… Read More ›
Pat Mills: Great War was world’s first sci-fi war
BBC Scotland has a new, short interview with Charley’s War co-creator Pat Mills on their web site this morning, in which he offers an insight into writing the strip… and why he believes how mechanised warfare – machine guns, zeppelins and planes – made World War… Read More ›
Looking back on Charley’s War: An Interview with Pat Mills
If you’ve read a British comic book in the last few decades, the chances are you’ve read a story written or edited by Pat Mills. Learning his craft with DC Thomson in Dundee, Pat would go on to create Battle… Read More ›
Looking back on Charley’s War: An Interview with Pat Mills
If you’ve read a British comic book in the last few decades, the chances are you’ve read a story written or edited by Pat Mills. Learning his craft with DC Thomson in Dundee, Pat would go on to create Battle… Read More ›
In Review: Charley’s War Volume 10 – The End
Reviewed by Steve Earles By Pat Mills and Joe ColquhounPublisher: Titan BooksOut: Now The Book: In the final explosive volume of never-before-collected comic strip, including for the first time reproductions of strip pages from Joe Colquhoun’s original artwork, we finally… Read More ›