A rare UK appearance from the award-winning graphic novel creator
Sean Michael Wilson
In Memoriam: Chris Reynolds, creator of Mauretania Comics… tributes planned for an indie comics legend
News of tributes to the groundbreaking independent comics luminary Chris Reynolds, who died earlier this month
The 17th Japan International MANGA Award seeks entries from manga artists across the globe
Manga creators from across the world are being encouraged to enter this competition
Mamiya Rinzo, samurai explorer, focus for new graphic novel
Check out this new manga on the explorer Mamiya Rinzo by Sean Michael Wilson and Akiko Shimojima
Creating Comics: Sean Michael Wilson on adapting the world’s oldest known novel, The Tale of Genji, into manga
How do you adapt a 1000-plus page novel into comics? Writer Sean Michael Wilson has some thoughts…
Sneak Peek: George Orwell’s acclaimed essay, “Such, Such Were the Joys” gets graphic novel treatment
Coming soon from Pluto Press, a powerful retelling of an acclaimed polemic on British class structure
“Radical Reading: Political Comic Books” online short course open now from the School for Social and Cultural Change
Check out this course run by comics writer Sean Michael Wilson
Sneak Peek: Spirit of Japan: Festivals, Rituals and Everyday Magic
A intriguing new illustrated book from Liminal 11 will be released next year
New “Comic Book Guide to Gardening”, out next year, is not the first gardening-inspired comic
This upcoming new gardening graphic novel looks great, but the marketing department who hyped it need a history lesson
Who Guards the Guardian’s Graphic Novels?
Sean Michael Wilson feels there’s something lacking in The Guardians’s graphic novel coverage…
Manga Yokai Stories offers some ghostly tales from Japan, retold by Sean Michael Wilson and Inko
Ghostly manga tales on their way to a bookshop near you…
Japan Society offers free online “Manga Drawing for Wellbeing” workshop with Fumio Obata
Manga creator? Don’t miss this free online workshop next month
Thirteenth Japan International MANGA Award competition closing date approaches
The call for entries is open to all over the world for the 13th Japan International Manga Award, organised by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan. The deadline is 14th June 2019. Previous British winners include Sean Michael Wilson,… Read More ›
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn launches new “The Many Not the Few” graphic novel
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn not only attended the launch of “The Many Not the Few” in Parliament on Monday 20th May 2019 – he bought four copies, too, and made a very nice speech saying how much he liked it…. Read More ›
Petition calls for arts funding support for British Comics on a par with Opera
The UK has a long tradition of making good comic books. Yet since the 1980s, sales of comics in newsagents, while still stronger than some magazine sectors, have declined drastically. Comic creator Sean Michael Wilson – author of the upcoming graphic novel The Many Not the Few with artist Robert Brown, introduced by Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn, is calling for better funding support for comic art projects to encourage creators.
Sneak Peek: Breaking the 10 Volume Two by Sean Michael Wilson and Michiru Morikawa
The second volume of Breaking the 10 by Sean Michael Wilson and Michiru Morikawa debuts in February 2018, published by NBM. When David loses his wife and child in a tragic car accident he decides to turn against God. He… Read More ›
Sean Michael Wilson and Michiru Morikawa out to Challenge with “Breaking The Ten”
Out today from US publisher NBM in all good comic and books shops if Breaking the Ten, the first of a two-volume story by Sean Michael Wilson and Michiru Morikawa. In troubling times, some people find comfort in religion. But sometimes,… Read More ›
Celebrating the British Small Press: 60 Great Small Comic Press (Part Three)
When Marvel UK shrunk its original strip output in the mid-1990s, not being a 2000AD reader, comic creator and reader Andy Luke had nowhere to go. He came to find that the small press, often photocopied works, were a core… Read More ›
Delight For Brits nominated for Eisner Awards
The list of nominees for this year’s Eisner Awards has been announced and includes a number of British creators – and a nomination for the anthology 24 By 7, edited by Dan Berry and published by Fanfare, featuring strips created during… Read More ›
Something for the Weekend (22nd July 2015) – A little 2000AD for the weekend, folks?
Here’s this week’s list of comics on sale now in comic shops across the UK. As usual, our list highlights the work of British creators and publishers. Prize-winning British cartoonist Julian Hanshaw makes his US debut this week with the… Read More ›