A new imprint to encourage the publication of First World War information has been established by The Western Front Association, in partnership with Tommies Guides. Reveille Press will enable Association members to have their work published rapidly, efficiently and cost-effectively,… Read More ›
Comic Genres
Johnny Red Flies again
Titan Books has released the first volume Johnny Red featuring art by Charley’s War co-creator Joe Colquhoun. Johnny Red is just the latest British comics collection from Titan Books, whose other reprints include Charley’s War of course, James Bond, Modesty… Read More ›
Striker Comic Archive released Free online
Football comic Striker is to have its entire 25-year archive made available to read free on its official website, striker3d.com. The library has been launched with the release of the first seven stories from 1985 to 1987 and new episodes… Read More ›
Striker on the Subs Bench Again…
Long-running football strip Striker’s run in Nuts magazine will come to an end next month, creator Pete Nash reports. Sadly for Striker fans who have followed the strip from The Sun to its weekly own comic, then back to the… Read More ›
Bellamy’s "Happy Warrior" Reprinted
(with thanks to Dave Wilson and Norman Boyd): Some web trawling by Eagle comic fans has thrown up the find of new collection of Frank Bellamy’s world-famous strip Winston Churchill: The Happy Warrior. The collection is only available from the… Read More ›
Striker comic to go free-to-view online in July
The entire 25-year archive of the football strip Striker, first published in The Sun and now featuring in mens magazine Nuts, is to be available online as free to view comics on the Striker website when it relaunches in early… Read More ›
Doctor Who artist conjures iconic Football Moment for new print
Former Doctor Who comic artist Richard Piers Rayner has produced a limited edition print recreating one of football’s most iconic moments, when Pele and Bobby Moore were pictured swapping shirts. The original photograph, taken by John Varley at the Estadio… Read More ›
Striker bounces back again – into Nuts
Football comic Striker has kicked off its 25th anniversary year by signing exclusively to Nuts, Britain’s biggest-selling weekly mens lifestyle magazine published by IPC. (We’re betting the team mascot might just be a bit racier than its past cheerleader, pictured… Read More ›
New Striker Collection Online
A new collection of Striker stories has just been published online via MyEbook.com. “Dead Man Walking”, set in Haiti, was a fan favourite, but creator Pete Nash warns that it should not to be read by the politically correct! Pages… Read More ›
Thomas Wogan Is Re-Published
Any comic creator out there who wonders if it’s worth self-publishing will be pleased to hear that sometimes all those hours slaving away at the photocopier, then stapling comics together until you’re sick of the sound of the ‘ker-chunk’ as… Read More ›