Publisher Dark & Golden’s mission to bring back some of the forgotten gems of UK indie comics has already seen a number of near lost rarities being seen by appreciative…
THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2025! An exciting trio of comics coming from those specialists in forgotten indie gems at Dark & Golden. These cracking comics debut at Thought Bubble and include…
Many years ago when I chaired my very first in-person panel event I was lucky enough to have UK indie legend Carol Swain (Invasion of the Mind sappers, Foodboy, Gast)…
As someone who once wrote a Masters dissertation that included an evaluation of the importance of ephemera as social history (in regards to collection development in academic libraries) a project…
THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2024! Dark & Golden Books breathe new life into comics ephemera, bringing the esoteric and the forgotten to new audiences. Tom Oldham and Douglas Noble’s wonderful publishing…
Back in the in the early 1990s, and riding the coat-tails of the success of the UK adult humour comic Viz, a slew of largely forgettable imitators suddenly burst onto…
Douglas Noble and Tom Oldham’s Dark & Golden publishing imprint is owed more attention than we have given it to date. Shining a light in the largely forgotten or obscure…
Dark & Golden Books is a new imprint “dedicated to charting a less travelled course through the history of British comics, finding and celebrating mislaid and forgotten classics for the…
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