It looks like plans to revive the Eagle Awards have hit a snag, because an all-new comic award has just been announced – with the ceremony scheduled at the exactly same time at London Film and Comic Con as… Read More ›
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Stan Lee backs revived Eagle Awards
The Eagle Awards are back, and, hot on the heels of promoting next week’s Free Comic Book Day (3rd May) US legend Stan Lee has joined the team behind them to provide fans around the world with a fresh opportunity to honour… Read More ›
London Film and Comic Con in Pictures
Here are some of the brilliant Steve Cook‘s fantastic photographs from this weekend’s London Film and Comic Con, which he has kindly allowed me to re-post. Kindly invited by Mike Conroy to the event (thank you, Mike!) had a… Read More ›
Marvel UK celebration planned for London Film and Comic Con
Creators and former staff who were part of Marvel UK and its publications will appear at the next London Film and Comic Con at Earl’s Court on Saturday 5th October. Organiser Mike Conroy hopes the panel will prove a celebration… Read More ›
Multiverse Mgazine blasts back into action
Mike Conroy’s comics news and features magazine Multiverse is finally back in print – with a spanking new look for Issue 7 from Barry Renshaw and packed with industry news from both the US and UK, complete with an intriguing… Read More ›
Showmasters plan ‘Independents Day’ events to promote British indie press
Showmasters, who run the London Comic Marts at the Royal National Hotel, have announced a number of ‘Independents Day’ events through 2013. The aim is that there will provide a platform for the independent press and celebrate their work. The… Read More ›
Comic Empire annexes London ABC Show
Fans of British comics will be delighted to learn that an event catering to their particular needs is returning to London on a regular basis. Such has been public demand following its successful restaging of the dormant ABC Show last… Read More ›
Battered but undaunted, Print Media continue Strip Magazine
After innumerable delays, the combined Issue 5/6 of the action adventure anthology STRIP is finally on its way to the shops and to subscribers. “It’s a case of if anything could go wrong, it did,” explained Mike Conroy, head of… Read More ›
Multiverse #6 Digital Editions on sale
Multiverse #6 – available on Graphic.ly While the print edition of comics magazine Multiverse #6 has yet to hit UK comic shops, it is available at various online locations, including Graphicly, Myebook and Comicsplus. Edited by Mike Conroy, each 52-page issue includes… Read More ›
Second Glasgow Comic Convention proves success
Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely at Glasgow Comic Con 2012. Photo: Craig Hastie of Comics Anonymous David Robertson of Fred Egg Comics reports on a weekend offering a range of big name guests and upcoming comics revelations… Photos kindly provided… Read More ›
Strip Magazine to re-launch in September
Print Media Productions has reluctantly decided to delay its planned news stand launch of STRIP from June until September 2012. The decision follows discussion with the company’s news stand distributors, who suggested that the autumn would be a far better… Read More ›
Eagle Awards set to soar back next year
“People often say ‘Don’t believe everything you read on the Internet’ and this is one of those times,” announced Eagle Awards chair Cassandra Conroy. Referring to an announcement made by MCM Expo’s Bryan Cooney at the conclusion of 2012 Eagle… Read More ›
Last ever Eagle Awards? Let’s hope not
Marred by behind-the-scenes issued hinted at on other comic news web sites such as Bleeding Cool, this year’s Eagle Awards were announced as part of this weekend’s MCM Expo last night — and the awards co-owners MCM announced as the… Read More ›
Multiverse comic magazine heads for America
It’s the magazine I, Vampire writer Joshua Hale Fialkov hails as “beautifully designed, with a modern, smart sensibility about mainstream comics that’s been missing from print comics journalism for a long time” — and Multiverse will be available in the… Read More ›
Multiverse muses on DC makeover, Com.X and Valiant reboot
The latest issue of British comic news magazine Multiverse is on sale now in all good UK comic shops – and back issues are now also available digitally from graphic.ly. Edited by Mike Conroy, Issue 4 sports a DC Comics… Read More ›