The British Comic Awards shortlist was announced today celebrating another year of astonishing creative growth for the medium in the UK and featuring a number of creators and projects to…
A COMICA FESTIVAL TIE-IN! Rob Davis offers a soul-searching black and white masterpiece of dysfunction and fulfillment. With credits such as “How I Built My Father,” “My Family and Other…
A COMICA FESTIVAL TIE-IN! Please note that, sadly, the autumn Comiket has now been postponed until Spring 2015. Comica Festival’s twice-yearly Comiket independent comics fair returns to Central Saint Martins…
It’s almost Wednesday, and you know what that means: a fresh load of comics and graphic novels! With so many publications hitting your local comics store or digital storefront, the…
News, today, from Brighton-based publisher Myriad Editions about a new signing for 2015’s schedule of graphic novels – Will Volley’s The Opportunity is set in the cutthroat world of those…
A COMICA FESTIVAL TIE-IN! Comica Festival returns to London this month with its traditional autumn programme of events celebrating the diversity of approach to comics craft, art and form. First…
A COMICA FESTIVAL TIE-IN! Spiders crawling over cute baby cheeks, half naked charming geishas eating blood dripping organs, beautiful flowing hair infested with black mice, drizzling with green ejaculate. Welcome…
With Thought Bubble rapidly approaching the usual round of announcements of books to be launched at the influential festival has already begun. But, lest we forget, this is also the time…
Today marks the ninth World Mental Health Day. The awareness-raising event is held every October 10th and represents a global celebration of mental health education, awareness and advocacy. Each year…
“If someone stepped back and looked at all the times superheroes went into the afterlife, yeah, it’s ridiculous and perhaps even embarrassing.” A. David Lewis has always had an affinity…
Disturbing, haunting, and visceral, Pirouette, by Mark L Miller and Carlos Granda, offers a horrific glimpse beneath the greasepaint and reveals the terrifying depths of human depravity. Horror comes in many different shapes and sizes….
Bastard and Nu, two accessible and enjoyable European mini-comic series by Max de Radigués and Sacha Goerg, make their English-language debut courtesy of Oily Comics. This Summer’s bundle of goodies from…
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First World War anthology To Arms! – a project with its genesis in the Gosh! Comics Process group – self-consciously set out to approach its subject matter with a distinctively…
As Thought Bubble rapidly approaches we can always expect to hear rumblings of exciting debut releases to coincide with the UK’s major autumn convention/festival season. Courtesy of Owen Michael Johnson…
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The most difficult task in creating a biography of a forward-thinking individual is to avoid the anecdotal approach. The most memorable biographies infuse the proceedings with some heartfelt emotions, providing an…
Gary’s Garden is a sprawling and witty ensemble piece from an ever inventive creator at the very forefront of the current renaissance in UK children’s comics. Originally published in the…
It’s almost Wednesday, and you know what that means: a fresh load of comics and graphic novels! With so many publications hitting your local comics store or digital storefront, the…
Alongside the multi-talented likes of Gary Northfield, Jamie Smart and Sarah McIntyre, the Etherington Brothers, Robin and Lorenzo, are a fraternal partnership at the very forefront of the resurgence of…
“Lots of My Sapphic Comics Focus on Small, Intimate Moments” – Nessie Mooo Talks ‘Deathmetal’, Comics Community, and Queer Representation in the MediumJune 12, 2026
“In Order to Create Societal Change, We Have to First Imagine It” – Tyler and Wendy Chin-Tanner Talk A Wave Blue World, Their LGBTQIA+ Anthologies and Publishing with a Social PurposeJune 9, 2026
“We Wanted to Publish the Books We Wanted to Read” – Outgoing Avery Hill Co-Founder Dave White Looks Back on 14 Years at the UK’s Game-Changing Indie Comics PublisherJune 8, 2026
“There is No Singular or Correct Intersex Narrative” – LJ Nakamura on Intersex Representation and the Liberating Nature of Pulp Sci-FiJune 4, 2026
“We Want Trans and Queer Teens to Feel Seen and Understood” – Tilly Bridges and Susan Bridges on Their New Graphic Novel ‘Just Another Summer’ and the Collaborative Writing ProcessJune 2, 2026
