The fifth issue of the comics zine Battling Britons is out now
James Bacon
In Review: Armed with Madness – The Surreal Leonora Carrington by Mary and Bryan Talbot
Review by James Bacon The Book: Reluctant muse and feminist champion… society heiress and rebel refugee… the last of the Surrealists: Leonora Carrington played many roles in her long and extraordinary life. Renouncing her privileged upbringing in pre-war England for… Read More ›
A Cracking Day Out: latest Commando and Weekly Comic Swap Meet features “launch” of new issue of Battling Britons, and more
James Bacon headed to Wolstanton for the latest Commando and Weekly Comic Swap Meet
In Review and In Pictures: Enniskillen Comic Fest 2023
James Bacon reports on the much-enjoyed 2023 Enniskillen Comic Fest
In Review: Battle Action #1
James Bacon casts an expert eye over the first issue of the new Battle Action
In Review: The Steve Dillon Exhibition at Lawless
Missed the Steve Dillon art exhibition at Lawless this year? James Bacon brings you a mini tour…
In Review and In Pictures: The Commando and British Comics Swap Meet, April 2023
Roving reporter James Bacon was at the latest outstanding Commando and British Comics Swap Meet in Glasgow this weekend…
In Review and in Pictures: Ian Kennedy – Celebrating a Comics Legend
James Bacon travels to Dundee to check out an incredible Ian Kennedy exhibition, open until early May
Looking Back at Thought Bubble 2022
James Bacon reflects on an enjoyable comics-filled event in Yorkshire…
Comic Creator Spotlight: A Visit to Commando artist Keith Burns studio
James Bacon finds out more about Keith Burns recent Star Wars fan commission…
In Review: The Art of Ian Kennedy at the Mercer Gallery, Harrogate
A wonderful exhibition of phenomenal art awaits fans at the Mercer Art Gallery in Harrogate
Dublin Comic Con Summer Edition 2022 proves a hit – for young, and older!
James Bacon reports on the recent Dublin Comic Con Summer Edition, which turned the spotlight on Irish comics creatives in style…
In Review: Starhenge Book One – The Dragon and the Boar (#1 and #2) by Liam Sharp
James Bacon checks out Liam Sharp’s Starhenge, #2 in comic shops today…
Bryan Talbot’s Luther Arkwright: celebrating 50 years of a British comics legend opens at London’s Cartoon Museum
James Bacon reports on the opening night of Bryan Talbot’s new Luther Arkwright exhibition at the Cartoon Museum, and reviews it, too
“Fight with Art” exhibition opens in Kraków
Fight with Art is a dynamic exhibition currently taking place at the at the Manggha Museum, in Kraków, Poland
WAR anthology comic from Ukraine raising funds for embattled creators and country’s war effort
A group of Ukrainian comic creators, some drawing while under fire, are fighting back against invasion with a powerful subscriber-based anthology comic project
In Review: Steve Dillon Exhibition at the Panel Gallery
The Panel Gallery in Northampton is currently showing a huge exhibition of work by Steve Dillon. James Bacon checked it out, and was suitably stunned…
Secrets of Ireland’s first-ever comics fanzine, featuring art by young Paul Neary, revealed
In December 1966, 50 years ago now, a 15-year-old Irish teenager called Tony Roche did a remarkable thing. He published the first issue of a comics fanzine called The Merry Marvel Fanzine. What was remarkable about this was that this… Read More ›
Yesterday’s Tomorrow: Dan Dare at the British Interplanetary Society
To co-incide with the 65th anniversary of seminal British picture strip weekly, Eagle, the British Interplanetary Society held a one day conference on Tuesday 14th April 2015 entitled ‘Yesterday’s Tomorrow’. Richard Sheaf reports… A packed programme introduced by the… Read More ›
British Interplanetary Society to celebrate the Eagle comic and the launch of the career of Dan Dare
On the 14th April 1950, a generation of spotty kids, some of which would become major players in British aerospace business, picked up an imposing colourful and authoritative weekly magazine (masquerading as a comic) which had been especially designed… Read More ›