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 ›
James Bacon headed to Wolstanton for the latest Commando and Weekly Comic Swap Meet
James Bacon reports on the much-enjoyed 2023 Enniskillen Comic Fest
James Bacon casts an expert eye over the first issue of the new Battle Action
Missed the Steve Dillon art exhibition at Lawless this year? James Bacon brings you a mini tour…
Roving reporter James Bacon was at the latest outstanding Commando and British Comics Swap Meet in Glasgow this weekend…
James Bacon travels to Dundee to check out an incredible Ian Kennedy exhibition, open until early May
James Bacon reflects on an enjoyable comics-filled event in Yorkshire…
James Bacon finds out more about Keith Burns recent Star Wars fan commission…
A wonderful exhibition of phenomenal art awaits fans at the Mercer Art Gallery in Harrogate
James Bacon reports on the recent Dublin Comic Con Summer Edition, which turned the spotlight on Irish comics creatives in style…
James Bacon checks out Liam Sharp’s Starhenge, #2 in comic shops today…
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 is a dynamic exhibition currently taking place at the at the Manggha Museum, in Kraków, Poland
A group of Ukrainian comic creators, some drawing while under fire, are fighting back against invasion with a powerful subscriber-based anthology comic project
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…
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 ›
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 ›
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 ›