Editor and writer Cefn Ridout, who worked with the late Richard Ashford at Acme Press, remembers his friend…
Speakeasy
In Memoriam: Comics Writer and Editor Richard Ashford
Alan Woollcombe pays tribute to an unsung hero of British comics fandom
British comic fanzines archive “The Fanscene Project” has a new online home
A fantastic digital celebration of British comics fandom has a new online home
Fanzine Flashback: Speakeasy, February 1984
Heading back to 1984, courtesy of the Classic UK Comics Archive
Blast! An Early 1990s British News Stand Comics Casualty
Image via EBay Short-lived, like many of its brethren and certainly overlooked, Blast! had some worthwhile strip content and is certainly worth a revisit. Luke Williams delves into its pages… By the late 1980s, following the triple header of Watchmen,… Read More ›
Pedantic Stan, The Comic Fan, returns in new collection from Lew Stringer, in time for London Film and Comic Con
Back in the days of the British comics fandom of the 1980s, when our community was very different and far less diverse than it thankfully is today, Lew Stringer and I created Pedantic Stan, The Comics Fan – and Lew… Read More ›
Classic UK Comic Zines Site adds rare 1970s conventions booklets to growing archive
British comics archivist, and former Fine Art and Graphic Design teacher David Hathaway-Price has been busy adding some gems of British comic fan history to his incredible Classic UK Comic Zines site, which is now located here. Two additions feature… Read More ›
WebFinds: Looking back on Speakeasy, a comics magazine that crashed and burned
(Updated on learning of Natasha’s passing in 2012): Tim Pilcher’s reminiscences of his experiences at Vertigo UK, recounted in the recently-released, Kickstarter-funded Comic Book Babylon (current stockists below), reminded me of another aspect of 1980s comic publishing – Speakeasy, a title… Read More ›