Concluding a month of shows looking at children’s comics on Britain’s only regularly broadcast radio show Panel Borders, Alex Fitch talks to a pair of cartoonists who both publish ‘traditional’ style British anthology comics in the style of The Dandy and other weekly… Read More ›
Comic Artists
Panel Borders: Editing Psycho Gran with David Leach
Alex Fitch explores the art and culture of comics and graphic novels with practitioners worldwide on his Panel Borders radio show – and this week, he’s spotlighting a great British comics creator. Alex Fitch talks to cartoonist and comic book… Read More ›
Après Charlie: Was Heath Robinson Really On The Nazi Death List?
The day after the Charlie Hebdo attack in Paris, chairman of the British Cartoonists’ Association Martin Rowson wrote in the Daily Mirror of the need for satire and how political cartoonists had been targeted through the years. Part of his… Read More ›
Panel Borders: Musical Monsters, Walruses and Snowmen
Continuing a month of shows looking at children’s comics on ace radio show Panel Borders, Alex Fitch talks to cartoonist Roger Langridge about his work. Alex and Roger discuss the latter’s work on licensed comics such as Popeye and Rocky and Bullwinkle, his adaptation… Read More ›
Rian Hughes releases 112 Hours, New Font Collection
Out now from artist and font designer Rian Hughes self-publishes a number of books and he’s recently released the well-received 112 Hours, his fifteenth collection of fonts. Rian is best known in the comics industry at present for his work for US… Read More ›
Barry Kitson, Andrew Wildman part of Dutch Comic Con Line-Up
British artists Barry Kitson and Andrew Wildman are part of a growing guest line up for next year’s Dutch Comic Con, which will be held 28th – 29th of March 2015 at the Jaarbeurs Exhibition Centre, Utrecht. Dutch Comic Con is an… Read More ›
In Review: This Was The Wizard
Colin Noble’s review of a cracking DC Thomson reference work
Comic Creators: Who’s Top and Who’s Not? Bleeding Cool Magazine has the answers
It’s that time of year again – time to see who earns the Number One power rank position in Rich Johnston‘s yearly list of American comic publishing’s comic book powerbrokers. What comes up must come down, and we’re told US… Read More ›
Doctor Who and Judge Dredd artist Dave Taylor publishes “Art Of” collection
It’s been a busy time for smashing comic artist Dave Taylor, who I first worked with way back in the early 1990s at Marvel UK, on Warheads and Gene Dogs. Not only is he hard at work drawing… Read More ›
Saturday Night Special: Behind the Scenes on “Saltire”
It is amazing to think that only last year a new company and a new comic franchise was launched in Dundee. This was Diamond Steel Comics with the superhero Saltire. This was originally thought of as a way to… Read More ›