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Lew Stringer’s annual Christmas comics posting begins….

Saturday, December 19, 2009

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Lew Stringer’s excellent blog; Blimey! It’s Another Blog About Comics always has something special and Christmassy for the holidays. Having run out of classic Christmas comic covers last year Lew’s decided to concentrate on just 4 comics in depth for 2009. First up is the Christmas 1971 edition of Valiant, which Lew gives us a [...]

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Top 10 Women comic characters?

Sunday, August 30, 2009

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Geek Girls Network presents it’s Top 10 Women Comic Characters. Always interesting to see these sorts of things, agree with them or not. Nice to see slightly more unusual choices with the inclusion of Judge Anderson and Jenny Sparks alongside perennials such as Tank Girl and Death. But I think there are a couple of [...]

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Return to Bash Street

Tuesday, June 30, 2009

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Leo Baxendale, one of the true treasures of Brit comics, kindly drops us a line today to let us know that he’s in The Times recalling the early 1950s and how as he created a variety of illustrations for different businesses he was approaching the mighty DC Thomson organisation in Dundee about making his own [...]

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