Comics UK

Since I couldn't find any on The Indy's web-site, I've posted scans here:
http://gadsircomics.blogspot.com/2007/1 ... dandy.html

You need the UK graphic novel release list maintained by John Freeman at Down The Tubes: http://www.downthetubes.net/resources/comics_links/uk_gn_releases1.html It's a bit out of date. No mention of the next Modesty Blaise volume from Titan, after "The Inca Trail" (now reaching the couple of stories...

The "Doctor Who storybook" is apparently good. Though i hear the official Doctor Who annuals are rubbish, reprints of strips from the Adventures comic that are barely a month old XD The BBC's 2007 Doctor Who Annual featured reprints, I think; but the strip material in the 2008 Doctor Who Annual is ...

From looking at Horrible Histories it looks like reprints from the books mixed in with puzzles...so not so good... There looked to be quite a lot of comic strips in it that I hadn't seen before. There's a two page strip about Guy Fawkes, for example, that isn't in The Slimy Stuarts , although the c...

tolworthy wrote: Words like "Beano" and "Whoopee" no longer have any real meaning (except as comics), but numbers are here forever.

"Whoopee" still has a meaning as a cushion...

Today's Guardian launches a new weekly comic section - but don't get too excited, there's only one 3-page strip in it. I talk about it at my blog, here: http://gadsircomics.blogspot.com/2007/10/guardian-s-comic.html The Guardian has the strip posted on its website as 3 PDFs, here: http://lifeandheal...

His first appearance as a picture strip character as far as I'm aware was in the pages of DC Thomson's Magic in 1940 with art supplied by Peem Walker. The rather wonderful Robin Hood website "Bold Outlaw" isn't too strong on comics, but does identify a Canadian newspaper strip by Ted McCall and Cha...

Not all today, but British Comics in the in the last two weeks: Doctor Who Adventures, Beano Max, Dandy, 2000AD, Viz , the latest Modesty Blaise collection ("Death Trap"), this year's Broons annual and (at last!) Albion Origins . Not bad for a supposedly dead part of the market. And secondhand, the ...

These Best of books could really show off Fleetway comics like Buster...[etc] One problem is that none of those titles is currently in print. The marketing guys would be very unhappy. Note how the DCT reprint volumes, even if they contain material from Beezer and Topper , only mention Dandy and Bea...

Forbidden Planet in Newcastle told me that they had expected Albion Origins this week, but received unordered copies of the Moores/Reppion/Oakley Albion paperback instead.

Don't forget that next week's edition starts a lot later, at 10:30. If you set your recorder for 9:00, you'll get a documentary about Factory records and the Hacienda club. Note that Sunday has "Happy Birthday Wullie" at 7:00 (presumably a companion piece to the Broons programme) and "In Search of M...

There's a documentary about Heath Robinson on at 8:00, too, just before the one about The Broons.

Noble was one of the first artists whose style I recognised, at an age when I was still getting my Lindfields and my Haylocks muddled. At the time, I thought his style was too dominant (I wanted a faithful, mimetic approach), now I appreciate it much more. I've posted a review of The Best of ... her...

I can honestly say that I didn't just buy Look & Learn for The Trigan Empire.

I bought it for Eagles Over The Western Front too.

I don't suppose that's represented?

The erratic scheduling combined with the preposterous number of variant covers means that it's easy to miss a new issue when it actually hits the shelves, too.