Girls in Print: Female Figures in British Comics is a new exhibition at the University of Dundee, running until October 2017. The way that female characters have been portrayed in comics has changed considerably over the years. In Britain, comics… Read More ›
Girls Comics
Crowdfunding Spotlight: “That Girl Comic” Anthology by TGC Collective
The Glasgow based TGC Collective are using Kickstarter to fund their latest comic anthology entitled That Girl Comic in which women cartoonists take on the theme of ‘growing up’. This is planned to be an A5 size, black and white comic of… Read More ›
New girls magazines launched, DC Thomson’s “Sweet” includes strip by Laura Howell
DC Thomson and Panini UK have both launched new girls titles this week – Sweet and Disney’s Eleanor of Avalor, the latter based on the animated series screened on the Disney Channel. DC Thomson say their title, Sweet, which includes… Read More ›
Hasbro awards Signature Publishing ‘Partner of the Year’
With over 60 Hasbro licensees, including some of the biggest toy, apparel, stationery and publishing companies across the UK and Europe in the running for the award, Signature Publishing says it is delighted to be awarded the honour of the toy… Read More ›
Celebrating “ABC Film Review”, Boys Adventure Blog spotlights the Dan Dare and other comic strips the magazine published
When news that the last ever ABC cinema has closed reached the ears of downthetubes writer Richard Sheaf, he began a series of features on its inhouse magazine, ABC Film Review, over on the Boys Adventure Blog, spotlighting some of the… Read More ›
Something For The Weekend (w/c 5th September 2016): Misty steps back out of the shadows!
With the countdown to Prog 2000 of 2000AD looming ever closer, and celebrations aplenty planned, Rebellion also tips its hat to the girls comic equivalent of the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic this week – Misty. On sale now is a smashing… Read More ›
Have You Seen All The Twinkle Books?
A guide to the little-known books that span off from DC Thomson’s Twinkle comic
Sparkle World’s “Goblin Princess” strip Brought To Book
A few years ago Jenny O’Connor, Editorial Director at Redan Publishing (whose titles include the best-selling Peppa Pig) started writing a strip story for the company’s popular Sparkle World called The Goblin Princess – and now the strip has become… Read More ›
Gordon Livingstone, I Presume – An Art Gallery
[Best_Wordpress_Gallery id=”4″ gal_title=”Gordon Livingstone Art”] When I created my Comic Creator Spotlight for Gordon Livingstone, I had more pictures than I could shake a stick at and as a result, I have pictures that I did not use in the main… Read More ›
In Memoriam: Illustrator and Comic Artist Shirley Bellwood
The very welcome reveal of 2000AD‘s cover of their first Misty collection – featuring art from a 1980 Misty Special – came tinged with the sad news of the passing of the much-admired artist who painted it, Shirley Bellwood, who had… Read More ›