Egmont has launched its new digital Classic Comics imprint with four iBooks collecting some classic Roy of the Rovers stories. Egmont says it will be distributing a broad programme of iBooks and e-comics, and with a huge amount of comics… Read More ›
Here’s the fifth of our ten posts to mark the release of the Royal Mail’s Comic Collection, celebrating 75 years of British comics. The Royal Mail have kindly sent us large versions of each stamp, so we thought we’d show… Read More ›
The Daily Mail has published a special Roy of the Rover strip to mark this weekend’s biggest match of the season, the 161st Manchester Derby. Featuring Champions Manchester United versus super-rich City, the strip emphasizes it’s the hottest ticket in… Read More ›
Football comics seem to be getting it in the neck this month – after the demise of the print edition of Comic Football (due to return online later this year), fans have alerted us to say that the official… Read More ›
We’ve got some good news about Comic Football, the national subscription-only comic that recently informed subscribers it had been cancelled. It seems that this is only part of the story – the comic will return later this year, but in… Read More ›
(Updated 13:24 4/10/11) We’re sorry to report the demise of Comic Football, the subscription-only title – after just three issues. Subscribers have just received a letter advising of the title’s “temporary suspension” and the return of any subscription money owed… Read More ›
Football comic Striker is to have its entire 25-year archive made available to read free on its official website, striker3d.com. The library has been launched with the release of the first seven stories from 1985 to 1987 and new episodes… Read More ›
Long-running football strip Striker’s run in Nuts magazine will come to an end next month, creator Pete Nash reports. Sadly for Striker fans who have followed the strip from The Sun to its weekly own comic, then back to the… Read More ›
The entire 25-year archive of the football strip Striker, first published in The Sun and now featuring in mens magazine Nuts, is to be available online as free to view comics on the Striker website when it relaunches in early… Read More ›
Former Doctor Who comic artist Richard Piers Rayner has produced a limited edition print recreating one of football’s most iconic moments, when Pele and Bobby Moore were pictured swapping shirts. The original photograph, taken by John Varley at the Estadio… Read More ›
Football comic Striker has kicked off its 25th anniversary year by signing exclusively to Nuts, Britain’s biggest-selling weekly mens lifestyle magazine published by IPC. (We’re betting the team mascot might just be a bit racier than its past cheerleader, pictured… Read More ›
Long-running football strip Striker is set to return – this time as a weekly strip in an as yet unnamed magazine. A Striker movie is also again in development. Announcing the return on the official Striker forum (membership required to… Read More ›
A new collection of Striker stories has just been published online via MyEbook.com. “Dead Man Walking”, set in Haiti, was a fan favourite, but creator Pete Nash warns that it should not to be read by the politically correct! Pages… Read More ›
Long-running soccer strip Striker recently came to an end in The Sun – catching many fans by surprize, even though creator Pete Nash had been saying for some time he planned to end the saga. But, after 24 years of… Read More ›
The latest issues of British comics magazine Crikey! is on sale this week – and has made the leap to full colour throughout. Running to 84 pages the first issue of the now bi–monthly Crikey!, with a Dennis the Menace… Read More ›
• The Independent on Sunday carried a two-page ‘interview’ with Roy “Roy of the Rovers” Race today, a splendid piece of well-researched work about the character and his history by writer Cole Morton. The piece not only promoted the new… Read More ›
Rammie, the first issue of an all-new football humour comic for children will go on sale in UK newsagents tomorrow (26th November) featuring work by Duncan Scott, Nick Brennan, Nick Miller, Lee Healey, and Lew Stringer. With a cover price… Read More ›
Writer and former Tiger and New Eagle editor Barrie Tomlinson pays tribute to Fred Baker, one of British comics unsung heroes, who died on 4 June 2008. He had been ill for some time with Alzheimer’s and died of pneumonia…. Read More ›
For the Rugby World Cup final (yes, yes , I know it was a couple of weeks ago but I’m a bit behind) the Guardian newspaper produced a 12 page special full of the usual talikng heads, talking, as it… Read More ›
The following check list for DC Thomson’s Red Dagger has been built up from many different sources, not all of which could be cross referenced for accuracy. If you can add any additional information, or can correct any mistakes, then… Read More ›