Tag Archive | "British comics"

History of British Comics

Friday, April 29, 2011

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We covered this quite a good while back, when the excellent Bryan Talbot created a potted history of British comics in three pages for the Guardian (in a similar style to his huge work Alice in Sunderland), but seeing as James at the Bryan Talbot site has just posted up some good-sized versions of the [...]

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More than just the Beano

Friday, February 18, 2011

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The Auld Kirk Museum in Kirkintilloch, on the outskirts of Glasgow, has a new comics themed exhibition, following on from their recent showing of Edd’s Heads, the caricatures and cartooning of Edd Travers. From the descritpion: “With the birth of Eagle in 1950, British comics entered their heyday. Boys’ and girls’ comics sold in their [...]

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From our continental correspondent – Brits abroad in Angoulême

Friday, February 4, 2011

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The Angoulême Festival is a smorgasbord of francophone comics (well, it is in France, so what do you expect ?).  Still, there’s a sizeable British contingent around, from publishers to independent creators and (of course) fans, if you know where to look.  We tracked a few of them down to the far corners of the [...]

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“The Clash of British publishing”

Thursday, January 13, 2011

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The always interesting Rod McKie pulled himself away from his massive Green and Black’s chocolate hamper over the recent holidays to pen a great post on Blank Slate Books and the state of comics publishing in the UK. As with many of us he had worried in the past that we were continually producing some [...]

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1500 2000 AD covers

Thursday, December 16, 2010

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I love this – the first 1500 covers from 2000 AD in a few minutes: Talk about nostalgia rush; I was about ten when the first prog appeared (complete with “free space spinner”) and I was hooked right away along with a bunch of my friends. Seeing these covers flicker past it is amazing just [...]

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Blank Slate’s new slate of books or Hope For the Future

Monday, December 13, 2010

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Kenny has been posting on the Blank Slate Books blog, mostly announcing the slate of graphic novels he’s planning to publish in 2011, but also talking optimistically about the state of comics publishing in the UK. As Kenny notes we’ve gone from despairing about the lack of independent comics publishers here, which has been a [...]

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Wasted video

Thursday, July 1, 2010

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There’s a neat wee video teaser for the latest issue of Wasted (via Jon Haward): Buddvert_6 from Nicola Blackmore on Vimeo.

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The Beezer blog

Wednesday, January 20, 2010

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Simon Mackie has started a blog dedicated to the glory days of The Beezer, a comic I remember with great fondness from my youth. The Beezer came in a large, tabloid format (much like DC’s recent Wednesday Comics experiment) similar to sister publication The Topper (another of my childhood reads), which it eventually merged with [...]

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The Purple Hood

Monday, January 18, 2010

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I’ve read a ton of British comics over the years; heck, like most folks of a certain age I grew up devouring them. But I can honestly say I’ve never heard of Michael Jay’s The Purple Hood. Who was he? Terry Hooper explains: “It was the Swinging Sixties! Britain was hip as hip could be [...]

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Free comics this weekend in the Guardian and Observer

Friday, September 11, 2009

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Starting tomorrow (Saturday 12th) and continuing for the whole subsequent week the Guardian (and on Sunday the Observer), will be giving away reprints of classic British comics, from sporty boy’s own stuff like Roy of the Rovers to girl’s faves like Bunty and perennial kid’s (and big kid’s!) favourites like the immortal Beano. From the [...]

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