The latest edition of Comic Heroes (Issue 32) is on sale now in all good newsagents and its own dedicated digital app. The latest issue, in case you weren’t sure, celebrates women in comics with a selection of features (including… Read More ›
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Future Launches “Your Comic Heroes” magazine alongside two other new kids titles
Future – owners of SFX magazine and Comic Heroes, – has just launched three brand new magazines for kids: Your Comic Heroes, Your Gaming Heroes and Minecraft Mayhem. “With the kids sector of the newsstand enjoying strong sales, and interest in gaming and superhero content… Read More ›
X-Men Fever Galore in new Comic Heroes magazine!
Comic Heroes 27 is out now in UK newsagents and editor Will Salmon describes it as “the best issue yet”. Spread across 148 fine pages of print, the X-Men are on the cover, and there’s a preview of “Apocalypse Wars” with contributions from creators… Read More ›
Marc Jackson’s “Ka-Punch!” Comes to Comic Heroes
Anarchic comic creator Marc Jackson‘s new comic strip ‘KA-PUNCH!’ is to launch in the January issue of Comic Heroes magazine. The first appearance runs to two full pages and the following issues will feature single pages strips. “The story will… Read More ›
Comic Heroes returns to the News Stand
Some 18 months after Comic Heroes magazine was cancelled, the title has take an leaf from The X-Men and risen like a Phoenix from the ashes. Brought to you again by Future Publishing, the 148-page quarterly Comic Heroes is back with… 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 ›
Comic Heroes No More
Comic Heroes, the specialist comic news and features magazine published by Future, is no more. The title will cease publication with its 24th issue, on sale in two weeks, its digital companion title, Comic Review, already no longer being… Read More ›
A Different Type of Star – Rejuvenating DC Thomson’s Red Star for a New Era
General Jumbo, The Smasher and Supercats are just some of the classic British heroes back in print right now, thanks to a team of Scottish comic creators, DC Thomson and Comic Heroes magazine. As we previously reported, The Glasgow League of Writers has teamed up with publisher DC… Read More ›
Future launches weekly digital “Comic Review” as part of “Comic Heroes” app
Future Publishing, the company behind SFX and Comic Heroes magazines ahs just launched Comic Review, a new, weekly 28-page digital magazine. With news, reviews and interviews every Friday, the company describes it as “the new way to keep up with everything… Read More ›
Tube Surfing: Comic Heroes, Jon Haward, Dragons and Night Salad
We’ve run Mr Matthew Badham ragged with our demands on his multi-layered brain, so he’s taking a little break. You will, instead, have to put up with my meanderings around various British comic creators equally meandering (at times, anyway) web… Read More ›