Ben Haggarty and Adam Brockbank’s stunning Stone Age tale Mezolith, initially serialised in The DFC and collected and continued by Archaia/Boom! Studios, is currently being offed as part of a Kindle Unlimited subscription by Amazon.
Fantasy Comics
Crowdfunding Spotlight: The Seven Sagas of Silverbeard
The Seven Sagas of Silverbeard is a terrific-looking sword and sorcery book with a gorilla warrior hero, currently seeking crowdfunding on Kickstarter – and we like the cut of its gib!
Spirit of the Pharaoh graphic novel lays ground for new feature film
Not content with developing To the Death with Geoff Senior and reinventing a host of British classic comic heroes with artist Simon Coleby for Rebellion’s The Vigilant saga, writer Simon Furman has also been busy turning Egyptian mythology on its… Read More ›
Taschen releases second in its “The Complete Little Nemo” series
Following up on The Complete Little Nemo 1905-1909 released in January, Taschen have now released The Complete Little Nemo 1910-1927 by Winsor McCay. Little Nemo may be a diminutive hero of comic narrative, but he stands tall as one of… Read More ›
Sneak Peek: Rob Davis’s “Book of Forks” out in October, concludes “Motherless Oven” trilogy
This October, just in time for the Lakes International Comic Art Festival, SelfMadeHero will publish The Book of Forks – the final book in Rob Davis‘s stunning abstract adventure trilogy that began with the brilliant The Motherless Oven back in… Read More ›
Pat Mills and Oliviér Ledroit’s “Requiem Vampire Knight” tops sales charts in France
Requiem: Resurrection by Pat Mills and Oliviér Ledroit is sitting in the Number One sales spot in the fantasy graphic novel chart on Amazon France – an amazing accomplishment, considering it was re-published over three years ago, and it’s apparently… Read More ›
In the Spotlight: “Storm” by Martin Lodewijk and Don Lawrence
With Rebellion‘s welcome announcement of mass-market Trigan Empire collections, launching next year, it’s perhaps no surprise that some fans of artist Don Lawrence are also wondering if this might also pave the way for a similar release for the science… Read More ›
Crowdfunding Spotlight: UNSTOPPABLE
ArmageDoom Factory studio is in the final hours of raising funds for UNSTOPPABLE, an original action-packed “GreatSwordPunk” graphic novel set in a dark fantasy world, written by novelist Daniele Bonfanti, with art by 2000AD artist Stefano Cardosell, coloured by Aftershock colourist Patrizia Comino… and it looks flippin’ amazing.
World’s Greatest Cartoonists create Heroes!, a new comic for Alder Hey Children’s Hospital patients
Liverpool Lions Club have teamed up with some of the world’s best known cartoonists to produce a new comic book, HEROES!, for the patients of Alder Hey Children’s Hospital.
Crowdfunding Spotlight: “The Hammer” by Simon and Kieran Squires
Comic creator Kieran Squires gave downthetubes a heads up on his new project, The Hammer – an action-packed slams fantasy tale, reinventing Norse mythology with a savagely British sense of adventure and humour. The modest Kickstarter has just gone live and… Read More ›
Colleen Doran adapts second Neil Gaiman fairy tale story into comics
Neil Gaiman’s chilling retelling of the Snow White fairytale, Snow, Glass, Apples has been beautifully adapted by Colleen Doran, who previously adapted Gaiman’s award-winning short story Troll Bridge – and will be released by US publisher Dark Horse Comics later… Read More ›
Free Comic Book Day 2019 Full List of Comic Books Announced, plus a 2000AD 99p Special!
Free Comic Book Day (FCBD) 2019 features an amazing selection of comic book titles for the industry’s most anticipated annual event which happens Saturday 4th May 2019 at participating comic book shops worldwide. British publishers Rebellion and Titan Comics have… Read More ›
Doctor Who writer Ed Hime part of ITV’s “Sapphire and Steel” reboot
Research for the downthetubes review of Doctor Who – It Takes You Away has revealed award-winning writer Ed Hime is part of the team working on the reboot of ITV’s fantasy drama Sapphire and Steel.
Bill Sienkiewicz unpublished Big Numbers #6 cover up for auction
Bill Sienkiewicz‘s unpublished cover for the sixth issue of the Alan Moore-scripted series Big Numbers is going under the hammer over at Heritage Auctions this weekend. The story behind the creation of the ill-fated 12-issue series Big Numbers from Mad Love… Read More ›
Tales to Astonish: Statix Press latest graphic novels are, simply, a joy to behold
Titan Comics Statix Press imprint has already published some terrific, high quality books since its inception, but this week sees the publication of two truly wonderful graphic novels, re-published in English for the very first time. For those unaware, the… Read More ›
Crowdfunding Spotlight: Brigantia #2 by Chris Mole and Melissa Trender
The second issue of Brigantia, a historical fantasy/adventure comic is a comics project from writer Chris Mole and artist Melissa Trinder, lettered by Aditya Bidikar, that you may want to check out on Kickstarter
Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda’s “Monstress” wins at the British Fantasy Awards
The autumn season means it is time for the annual British Fantasy Society‘s convention and the BFS Awards. The second volume of Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda‘s rather glorious Monstress (published by Image) won the Best Comic / Graphic Novel… Read More ›
Eric Powell’s “Goon” celebrates 20th Anniversary in 2019
Eric Powell‘s Goon hits the twentieth anniversary milestone next year, and the writer and artist turned publisher is planning to bring his most famous creation (previously published by Dark Horse) to his own Indy press Albatross Funnybooks, and undertake a… Read More ›
BOOM! Studios announces new Buffy the Vampire Slayer projects
BOOM! Studios has announced it has acquired the comic book and graphic novel publishing license to Joss Whedon’s Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Previously published by Dark Horse Comics for 20 years (their final title, the trade paperback for their “Season Twelve”… Read More ›
Netflix Primer: Luke Pearson’s “Hilda” – a quick guide to the graphic novels
If you’ve been listening to the Awesome Comics Podcast recently, you’ll know that I’ll be running the Nobrow table at Thought Bubble in Leeds over the weekend of 22nd – 23rd September 2018. We’ll be situated at Table 28 in… Read More ›