Comics UK

If you're at a con with them, let us know. You have to be quick, but getting a table at the October MCM might be a good idea. I think the artists tables are around £50, but the event gets about 60,000 visitors! There's smaller conventions too...

Looks cool, reminds me of the style of one of 2000AD's newer artists. His renditions of the Big Meg are always a sight to see!

I find my old Beanos a lot more funny now than I did when I was a kid, for some reason. A lot of the older comics I collect are so old that today's ideas of "for children" and "for adults" are difficult to apply. Today's kid's comics, with loads of references to bodily functions, would have scandali...

That first panel looks brilliant! The faces have just the right level of "cartoonishness" to be expressive, without it looking like it's trying to be Franco-Belgian (not that they don't do the odd granite-faced hard man, mind you!).

In the late 40's to early 50's Britain was awash with loads of short-run or one-shot "American style" (some of them even with prices in cents, just to confuse people) all-strip comics on all sorts of themes (and all sorts of sizes, from tiny silver ones to tabloids). Many of them are now very rare o...

Some of the Phoenix stories are closer to traditional British adventure style than others, though. But there's no black and white, big-captioned Victor-style stuff. Though there is text stories! Also even if you do live near a Waitrose, a lot of them don't have it very reliably, they'll get a load o...

I beleive a 'factual' spread used in at least one annual (I think I've seen it in Action 1982, but it looks older) about an oil well on fire has been attributed to him. Those firemen look pretty similar to that.

Those plastic boxes aren't permanently sealed! ...but it's likely a lot of the mega-rich, speculating owners who buy the best ones aren't actually interested in reading the comics anyway.

There's plenty of ebay pirate disk makers working on that! As for the late 40's, "one-off" and "short run" comics, the copyright status of a lot of them is effectively in limbo. A lot of them were published by "companies" as short-lived as their comics, quite a few of which were set up by spivs want...

Pretty sure it was the 90's, by 2001 my brother and me had most likely stopped getting annuals at Christmas. I can remember being really annoyed that the story didn't continue! (of course, at the time I was only very vaguely aware that there had once been comics where such stories appeared every wee...

I think originally Colonel Von Reich was always Almyer Griegson, but after the war it became clearer what the Nazis had really been up to as they rose to power, and implied that for anybody to reach a high position in the party, he would have had to have been involved in atrocities himself. So when ...

Currently reading through the Brave Book for Boys from 1941. As it's from 1941 the Chinese, while still being walking stereotypes, are models of virtue and the Japanese have bloodshot eyes, broken teeth and hiss when they're happy. Also reading the odd Commando ("The Tiger is Loose" is an epic), and...

After a certian Viz controversy (itself probably 30 years old, though), I can't see that Winker Watson strip being reprinted!

I should think if the "proper" Dan Dare had gone over to 2000AD, he'd be quite a different character now (perhaps still going, with the 50's stories totally forgotten), and Spaceship Away would never have happened... no thanks! Death Wish and 13th Floor would have been different propositions, though...

In fact, it only came back to mind when I passed it, last time in London, when I was looking for that manga store in Soho, which turned out to be right across the street. It's not got a very obvious name, has it? :lol: I once went to Vinmag to find a random example of a British comic to show Japane...