Out next month from comiXology is Ask for Mercy: The Key to Forever by British creators Richard Starkings and Abigail Harding – the first collection of the creator-owned series launched last year on the digital comics platform. An action-packed and artistically stunning dark… Read More ›
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Creating Comics: An Interview with Real Ghostbusters artist John Marshall
Joe O’Brien recently tracked down elusive The Real Ghostbusters artist John Marshall (John Williams)
Remembering Robert Sutherland: An Appreciation by Jenny O’Connor
Former Marvel UK staff and the present team at Redan Publishing were all saddened by the news of the death of Robert Sutherland, whose passing was announced last week. Here, Redan’s Editorial Director Jenny O’Connor, who knew Robert for almost… Read More ›
In Memoriam: Comics Letterer Albert Deschesne
We’re sorry to report the passing of comics letterer, colourist and inker Albert Deschesne, whose numerous credits include District X, Nova and Tim Perkins’ Worlds End graphic novel; remembered here by Comicraft’s Richard Starkings… Albert Deschesne, who had lettered for… Read More ›
Remembering Marvel UK’s The Real Ghostbusters: An Interview with artist Brian Williamson
One of the first comics I wrote for on a regular basis, thanks to faith in me from launch editor Richard Starkings, was Marvel UK’s The Real Ghostbusters. Well, there’s now a fan site dedicated to the title – The… Read More ›
Happy 30th Birthday, Combat Colin!
Huge congratulations to longtime British comics creator Lew Stringer this morning, whose much-loved clumsy combat hero Combat Colin celebrates 30 years of publication. The first Combat Colin strip appeared in print in Marvel UK’s Action Force Issue 5, published on… Read More ›
Comicraft Turns Japanese! (with an ambitious new font project, that is…)
Comicraft, the comic-book industry’s leading lettering and design company for over 20 years, is launching a Kickstarter to fund the creation of the first comic book-style lettering font for the Japanese writing system. What started as Wildwords Manga, a limited font… Read More ›
Titan Comics Full Doctor Who Comic Day 2016 Plans, Variant Covers Revealed
Now in its third year, Doctor Who Comics Day, – back next Saturday, 9th July 2016 – is set to be bigger and better than ever with the launch of a new crossover event comic – Doctor Who: Supremacy of… Read More ›
In Review: Doctor Who: The Fourth Doctor (Gaze of the Medusa, Part One)
Writers: Emma Beeby and Gordon Rennie Artist: Brian Williamson Colours: Hi-Fi Letters: Richard Starkings and Comicraft’s Jimmy Betancourt Designer: Rob Farmer Main Covers: Alice X. Zhang, Will Brooks, Brian Williamson, Jay Gunn, Matt Baxter, Ben Oliver, Blair Shedd and Simon… Read More ›
Planet 55’s new animated series “Prisoner Zero” gets debut at Gallifrey One
The big Gallifrey One Doctor Who convention takes place in Los Angeles this weekend, and there are several comics guest on the line-up as well as stars such as Fifth Doctor Peter Davison, War Doctor Sir John Hurt, Sixth Doctor Colin Baker… Read More ›