Bill Morrison, Disney artist and cofounder of Bongo Comics with Matt Groening, and a headline guest at this year’s Lakes International Comic Art Festival in October, has teamed with Dark Horse Comics and artist Keith Champagne for his first creator-owned… Read More ›
Horror Comics
Preacher TV series launch date announced
AMC’s live-action adaptation of Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon’s Vertigo comics series Preacher will launch in May 2016, Seth Rogan, the show’s executive producer has announced. AMC announced it had ordered a pilot for a series based on the comic Preacher back… Read More ›
Starlord’s “Planet of the Damned” collection on its way from 2000AD
The Bermuda Triangle-inspired science fiction comic “Planet of the Damned” that channelled elements of Mad Max straight to the pages of the short-lived 2000AD companion Starlord, is to be collected next year. Rebellion, the publishers of 2000AD are putting out… Read More ›
Crowdfunding Spotlight: “A Restless Night”, a Merrick: The Sensational Elephantman spin-off
Tom Ward and Luke Parker, the talented team behind the brilliant Merrick: The Sensational Elephantman (the latest issue reviewed here), have just launched their latest Kickstarter for a one-shot prestige horror comic from the world of their hit comic, based… Read More ›
Panel Borders: On the Brink of a Brass Sun with 2000AD’s I.N.J. Culbard
Concluding a month of shows about ‘The Galaxy’s Greatest Comic’ on the smashing podcast (and radio show Panel Borders, Alex Fitch talks to artist I.N.J. Culbard about his work for 2000AD on strips such as ‘clock-punk fantasy’ serial “Brass Sun”… Read More ›
In Review: Houses of the Holy
Writer: Mike Carey Artist: Dave Kendall Publisher: Madefire In case you missed it, artist Dave Kendall has landed a rather big gig in 2000AD which has been reported on by our illustrious editor in the Dark Judges “origin story” article…. Read More ›
Nightmarish Dark Judges “origin story” coming to 2000AD
It started with an artist’s dream – but now, the nightmare of the Dark Judges’ early days is coming to 2000AD. Artist Dave Kendall was inspired by a haunting dream to create his own versions of John Wagner and Brian Bolland’s… Read More ›
Looking back on Marvel UK’s “Frontier” comics, on their way as a new collection in 2016
Picked up by numerous Marvel fans in mid July, Amazon has posted details of the upcoming Marvel Frontier Comics: The Complete Collection, assembling a number of strips published by Marvel UK in the 1990s as part of what was the… Read More ›
In Review: Dirty Rotten Comics – Volume 5
Edited by Kirk Campbell & Gary Clap Design and layout by Gary Clap Let’s face it. Any anthology that opens with a quote by 1980s pop quartet Bucks Fizz is a winner in anyone’s book? Right? Dirty Rotten Comics are… Read More ›
In Review: Post Mortem – The Harvesting
Authors: Phil Woodward and William Wismer Pencils: Jaime Martinez Inks: Santiago Ramos Letterer: Mindy Lopkin Publisher: Close 2 Immortality The Book: No name. No memory. No escape. He awoke with no memory and found himself plunged into a blood-soaked hell…. Read More ›