Bear Alley Books continue their Eagles Over The Western Front reprints from Look and Learn magazine with the second of three volumes that will combine into the entire run of the strip written by Trigan Empire’s Mike Butterworth with black… Read More ›
Look and Learn
In Review: Eagles Over The Western Front Volume 1
Forty years ago the weekly magazine Look and Learn was a parental purchase in many British households as parents saw its articles as educational while its younger readers saw its comic strips, including the now legendary Trigan Empire, as exciting…. Read More ›
Merry Christmas: 1 Day To Go
Our run of Christmas covers continue as we countdown to Christmas Day. Christmas wouldn’t be Christmas without a good Look and Learn Santa cover and this one comes from issue 728 in 1975. With Santa speeding over the snow on… Read More ›
Moon Landing: T Minus 0 Days – The Eagle Has Landed
Forty years ago today, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin boarded the Lunar Module, Eagle, and undocked from the Command Service Module, Columbia
Moon Landing: T Minus 1 Days – What Could Go Wrong
Forty years ago today, the crew of Apollo 11 were almost at the Moon with their mission progressing smoothly
Tube Surfing: 22 April 2009
It’s been a busy couple of weeks so our quick round ups of British comics news here have been a bit lacking. My apologies. • The reason things have been scant here is down to the soft launch of weirdandbeard.com,… Read More ›
Merry Christmas
The final Christmas cover and a cover that just screams Seventies at you. Since the cover date was 25 December 1977 Look and Learn Plus Speed and Power went all out with this gem from artist Ron Embleton. Having presumably… Read More ›
Robin Hood Joins Accent UK
Accent UK are very pleased to announce that by special arrangement with Geoff West of The Book Palace, they’ll have a supply of the newly released Frank Bellamy’s Robin Hood the Complete Adventures book at both the International Comic Expo… Read More ›
Look and Learn Returns
(With thanks to Steve Holland): The first issue of the Look and Learn Company‘s limited run (48 issues) of a magazine made up of the best of the original Look and Learn has just been published and released to subscribers, printed to… Read More ›
Look and Learn web site due to launch soon
Over on Bear Alley, comics expert Steve Holland reports that the Look and Learn web site, with which he is heavily involved, officially launches in a matter of days. This is run by a company which now owns the publishing… Read More ›