Tag Archive | "British comics"

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 official [...]

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