Episode 6 of the new UK small press centric Awesome Comics Podcast is coming your way today. Hosted by Vince Hunt (creator of Red Mask From Mars), Dan Butcher (Vanguard) Butcher and our very own reviewer chap Tony Esmond, this episode… Read More ›
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Doctor Who Panel to Panel: Talking Four Doctors with Paul Cornell and Neil Edwards
Episode 36 of Doctor Who: Panel to Panel is live and focuses on Titan Comics‘ mini-series Four Doctors, which launches this week – and Doctor Who Comics Day, a Titan Comics-sponsored event that takes place on Saturday. In this episode,… Read More ›
Crowdfunding Spotlight: Our Friend Satan
Our Friend Satan Writer: Dominik L. Marzec Inks and Pencils: Michael Murawski Colour: Lukas Lalko Format: 80 pages – full colour throughout The Story: Our Friend Satan is a rip-roaring story about Satan in the middle of his midlife crisis…. Read More ›
Blasé Books celebrates British comics with new issue of “Scraps”
(Via Lew Stringer): Blasé Books, the company that sells British comic art from the IPC archives purchased by Peter Hansen some years back, have announced the imminent publication of Scraps, an irregular fanzine devoted to British comics. Available from the… Read More ›
British Comic Shop Releases (5th August 2015) – Damned Bands and Peanuts
Here’s this week’s list of comics on sale now in comic shops across the UK. As usual, our list highlights the work of British creators and publishers. You may also be already thinking about Christmas (some people do, advertisers,… Read More ›
Sneak Preview: Miracleman #1 Volume 2 By Gaiman & Buckingham
Neil Gaiman and Mark Buckingham‘s take on Miracleman will finally see completion thanks to Marvel, starting next month. Their tale of Mick Anglo’s British superhero, originally known as Marvelman, began 25 years ago but was cut short, victim to company… Read More ›
Exclusive: Dave Gibbons’ Dan Dare cover for new 2000AD collection
Thanks to Rebellion, publishers of 2000AD, we’re delighted to bring you this exclusive Dan Dare item! Featured here is Dave Gibbons specially commissioned and truly stunning cover for the first collection of the “Dan Dare” strips from 2000AD. This Dan Dare:… Read More ›
Crowdfunding Spotlight: Brian Gorman’s “Borderliners”
Manchester-based actor, comics writer and artist Brian Gorman has just launched a crowdfunding campaign to continue his creator-owned SF espionage story Borderliners: True Realities – a strip “starring” two characters based, with permission, on actors Ian McKellen and Roger Moore that has… Read More ›
This week’s Panel Borders: 2000AD alumni Colin Wilson and Jim Alexander interviewed
Starting a month of shows about ‘The Galaxy’s Greatest Comic’, Alex Fitch talks to a writer and an artist about their work in and after 2000AD. Colin Wilson discusses getting his first work on the periodical and drawing Judge Dredd… Read More ›
Sneak Peek: Alejandro Jodorowksy’s “Showman Killer”
This November sees the release of Showman Killer: Heartless Hero from legendary Chilean filmmaker, playwright and writer of The Incal and Holy Mountain, Alejandro Jodorowksy – and Titan Comics have just released a Sneak Peek trailer for the book. Genetically modified… Read More ›