The new Chesham Cabinet Collection, featuring fabrics and wallpapers created using original Ladybird Books illustrations, is now available from Liberty London. Ladybird highlights include the Limewood Wallpapers, Gail’s Garden Vintage Velvet fabrics and cushions, and the Charlotte Wallpaper in Catherine Cream. The Chesham Cabinet Collection is a… Read More ›
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Awesome Comics Podcast Episode 33 previews London Super Comic Con
With the Awesome Comics Podcast‘s first ever exhibitor appearance just around the corner, what better time to talk comics, conventions and get hyped for the upcoming London Super Comic Con 2016! This time out, the gang – Vince Hunt, Dan… Read More ›
Close 2 Immortality to Launch at London Super Comic Con 2016 this weekend
“To be remembered is to be eternal” Close 2 Immortality is a brand new comics collective that will be launching at the upcoming London Super Comic Con over the weekend of the 20th and 21st of February 2015 at The… Read More ›
Doctor Who Monsters in the spotlight for new Never Cruel or Cowardly podcast
Last month, comics writer and author Cavan Scott described podcasts as the “… fanzines of the 21st Century”. The team behind a mainly Doctor Who-influenced podcast, Never Cruel or Cowardly, are running with that idea in style. The work of talented creators… Read More ›
Facebook “unpublishes” VIZ official page on social media site
Facebook has suspended the official Facebook page for the adult humour magazine VIZ, citing that it violates Facebook’s Statement of Rights and Responsibilities, which all users are required to abide by upon creating and maintaining a Facebook page. VIZ responded… Read More ›
Glasgow “Comic Invention” exhibition features world’s oldest comic alongside art by Frank Quitely
Next month sees the opening of Comic Invention: The Glasgow Looking Glass of 1825, an exhibition at the Hunterian Art Gallery in Glasgow featuring the world’s oldest comic, the Glasgow Looking Glass. This major new exhibition offers both art lovers and comic… Read More ›
Robots on the march — Vectis tinplate toys auction announced, includes Flash Gordon rarity
Next month, on Tuesday 15th March, Vectis Auctions will present an ‘Out of this World’ collection of robots, space vehicles, flying saucers and rockets — almost 1000 pieces of tinplate, metal and plastic pieces from European, Japanese, Asian and American manufacturers, including a… Read More ›
Striker dropped from The Sun’s print edition, goes online only
The Sun has unexpectedly dropped the print version of its popular football comic, Striker, moving the strip online – much to the disappointment of its many fans – and the surprise of its creator, Pete Nash. “I was told on… Read More ›
Tonight on Gotham on Channel 5: By Fire
In “By Fire”, tonight’s episode of Gotham airing on Channel 5 in the UK, while Penguin and Galavan battle for control of the Gotham underworld, another new villain is the focus of the police. Here’s some teaser pics… Gotham stars Ben McKenzie as James Gordon, David… Read More ›
Three Weeks To The Inaugural Dunfermline Comic Con
The comic convention calendar has become very busy over the last few years with new events springing up all over the place and one of the newest is the Dunfermline Comic Con which is being held on Saturday 5 March… Read More ›
Comics @ Aye Write! Glasgow’s Book Festival 2016
This year’s Glasgow Book Festival, Aye Write, will be taking place in the City’s Mitchell Library from 10 to 20 March. Claiming to be the third largest literary festival in the UK, presumably after the Edinburgh International Book Festival and… Read More ›
San Diego Comic Con 2016: Open Online Badge Registration announced for Saturday 20th February
Report by Leonard Sultana of An Englishman in San Diego So it is, and so it shall be – Comic-Con International have announced that San Diego Comic-Con badges will go on sale to the general public next Saturday, 20th February at… Read More ›
Laura Howell on the comic guest line up for MCM Midlands Comic Con
MCM Midlands Comic Con is back in Telford tomorrow, Saturday 13th February, with, as you’d expect, some comic creators on board for the day, including Beano contributor Laura Howell. Laura is a Birmingham-based comic artist, writer and occasional educator who turned pro in 2006 after eight years working… Read More ›
SEQUENTIAL offers new, expanded digital edition of Posy Simmonds’ “True Love” in time for Valentine’s Day
There’s a special Valentine’s Day treat for fans of Posy Simmonds this weekend with the news that the previously-announced digital edition of her story True Love is being released on SEQUENTIAL, the iPad app for digital graphic novels. Announced last year, this is… Read More ›
Betty Boop returns to the small screen, new fine art prints by Naja Conrad-Hansen released
Betty Boop – whose early comic adventures were re-published last year by Titan Comics – is coming back to the small screen, some 30 years after her last show. A new 26-episode series aimed at “tweens and teens” recounting the adventures… Read More ›
Joe Kelly Announced as first US guest for Lakes International Comic Art Festival 2016
Just as Marvel’s latest blockbuster superhero movie Deadpool hits UK cinemas, the Lakes International Comic Art Festival has announce its first major US guest for the 2016 is Joe Kelly, who will be making an exclusive UK appearance at the Festival weekend… Read More ›
New Tales from the TARDIS rounds off “Pyramids of Mars” sequel story
The latest issue of Titan Comics second UK Doctor Who title, Tales from the TARDIS, is on sale now, and sees the finale to “The Spiral Staircase” a comic sequel to the classic TV story Pyramids of Mars. Re-presenting Doctor… Read More ›
New Comics On Sale This Week in the UK – On the King’s Road, with Judge Dredd and Doctor Who in tow
Right. I’ve just been down to Lancaster’s First Age Comics to have a look at the new comics, only to be told that while Titan’s Johnny Red is selling well there, more people would have bought if “they had only… Read More ›
British Comic Sales Figures: Winners and Losers (July – December 2015)
Updated 16th February to add comment from Generation Media The Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC) sales figures for titles registered with the organisation have just been published this week and while many comics or young children’s magazines have taken a hit for the reporting… Read More ›
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 ›