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• We’re Battling Internet Demons!

  By John Freeman on September 18, 2025 • ( 0 )

  

  We’re sorry, but we’ve had to come up with a cunning plan…

• Do You Remember Tiffany Jones?

  By John Freeman on September 18, 2025 • ( 0 )

  

  The creation of the first all-female newspaper strip team

• Last chance to see Unreal Comics of Liverpool exhibition

  By John Freeman on September 18, 2025 • ( 0 )

  

  Surreal comics fun to be seen in the Liver Building this week

• Lost Newspaper Strips: Enric Badia Romero’s “Kathy and Wendy”

  By John Freeman on September 18, 2025 • ( 0 )

  

  Which British newspaper ran this strip?

• Jump On Board! 2000AD 2450 offers new thrills, aimed at bringing in new readers

  By John Freeman on September 17, 2025 • ( 0 )

  

  New reader? Lapsed reader? Tharg has a special issue for you!

• Vectis Comics & Publications Auction offers huge British comics catalogue

  By John Freeman on September 16, 2025 • ( 0 )

  

  An amazing catalogue of British comic bundles and more

• “From Palestine” project reveals globally-significant comic art from Gaza and the West Bank

  By John Freeman on September 16, 2025 • ( 0 )

  

  New comics born from adversity in the spotlight

• British Comics Now at Brussels Comic Art Museum next month

  By John Freeman on September 16, 2025 • ( 0 )

  

  British comic creators head to Belgium

• Three original “Dan Dare” portraits by Frank Hampson head to auction

  By John Freeman on September 16, 2025 • ( 2 )

  

  Eagle-inspired art on offer

• UK Comics Creators Survey 2025 Launched

  By John Freeman on September 16, 2025 • ( 0 )

  

  If you create comics and you’re based in the UK, this survey is for you

• Crowdfunding Spotlight: The Comics Code – A Podcast

  By John Freeman on September 15, 2025 • ( 0 )

  

  A new podcast unlocking the hidden history of the comics and popular culture

• Annual “Golden Hat” Competition launches, open to cartoonists across the globe

  By John Freeman on September 15, 2025 • ( 0 )

  

  Anyone can enter this Belgian cartoon competition

• Jamie Smart’s Megalomaniacs gets Bookseller cover boost

  By John Freeman on September 14, 2025 • ( 0 )

  

  The invasion of Earth begins next year! Hooray! 

• Crowdfunding Spotlight: The Gloriously Untrue Adventures of Sapphira by Sapphira Olson

  By John Freeman on September 14, 2025 • ( 0 )

  

  Weird, wonderful, and there’s a space cat too!

• Graphic novelist Craig Thompson lined up for London event at the Century Club

  By John Freeman on September 13, 2025 • ( 0 )

  

  A capital encounter on offer with the award-winning graphic novelist

• Frank Frazetta’s Defining Image of Conan Sells for Record-Shattering $13.5 Million at Heritage Auctions

  By John Freeman on September 13, 2025 • ( 0 )

  

  Mind blowing figure for iconic Conan art

• British Comic Rarities aplenty in latest Phil-Comics auction, closing this weekend

  By John Freeman on September 12, 2025 • ( 0 )

  

  Art galore, and more, in Phil-Comics auction

• In Review: No Refuge by Joe Brady and Patrice Aggs

  By John Freeman on September 12, 2025 • ( 0 )

  

  Nowhere safe to run…

• New issue of comics anthology, World War 3 Illustrated, out next week

  By John Freeman on September 12, 2025 • ( 0 )

  

  Anthology provides a home for challenging comics from around the world

• Vision and Labour: Making Comics exhibition at the Mercer Art Gallery

  By John Freeman on September 11, 2025 • ( 1 )

  

  An exhibition delving deep into the comic creation process

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