There’s a sense of fun to the output of new British publisher Tabella (www.tabella.co.uk), which was was set up last year by husband and wife Kevin and Julia Quinn. By fun, I don’t mean their range is humorous, although some,… Read More ›
Humour Comics
Kez and Luke Collected
Recently arrived at the downthetubes lair is a copy of The Adventures of Kez and Luke by TOXIC Comic sub-editor Luke Paton, a collection of strips published first published online. The drawings comprise simple stick figures throughout but there’s some… Read More ›
In Review: Watchmensch
Out in early March, Lying in the Gutters’ Rich Johnston’s Watchmensch, a parody of a certain major DC Comics-published comic series, soon to be a major movie (at least that’s what a lot of film people and DC Comics are… Read More ›
Sleeze Brothers Owes Much to Archie Goodwin
Over on his Elephantmen blog, Active Images’ Richard Starkings has posted a fascinating insight into the history of Marvel UK’s early attempts to publish US-style comics, which led to publication of titles such as Dragon’s Claws and the about-to-be-remastered The… Read More ›
The Sleeze Brothers Return!
The Sleeze Brothers are back! Those anarchic, lunatic and downright shady PIs, the creation of John Carnell and Andy Lanning back in the 1980s, are being given a brush up (and probably, a good spanking) just in time for their… Read More ›
Watching the Watchmensch
Lying in the Gutters’ Rich Johnston’s parody of — well, you can guess from the cover — is to be be published by Brain Scan Studios, an alternative media company based out of Boston in the US that publishes a… Read More ›
Mike Battle: Stirred, Not Shaken!
For years Sgt Mike Battle, the creation of artist-writer Graham Pearce, has been defending America (and sometimes her allies) from harm… but in his latest adventure he has to call in some help in the form of a certain British… Read More ›
Sock Puppets at Christmas…
The Sock Puppet Theatre, scourge* of many a British comics event is counting down the Christmas with The Socks’ Advent Calendar, a wee musical treat! Eat your heart out Aled & Terry. And Bing and David… Comic creator tells us… Read More ›
Stick-Man’s Christmas Adventure
Courtesy of Scottish cartoonist Malcolm Kirk, whose hilarious Stick Man discovers Santa has gone a bit, well, strange this year… Check out www.myspace.com/mal_comix for more of Mal’s work, and there are more of his Stick Man cartoons here on ROK… Read More ›
Cartoon Days of Christmas!
Cartoonist and friend Rich Diesslin came up with this Cartoon 12 Days of Christmas. Enjoy. You can check out more of his work at the-cartoonist.com