British Comics

There’s No Time Like the Present by Paul B Rainey review – a funny, unpredictable and wild comic ( www.theguardian.com )

People who enjoy science fiction love to imagine the future: time travel, spaceships, something wobbly with a green face. But what if those fans really had access to it – the future, I mean – courtesy of something very similar to the internet? This is the possibility Paul B Rainey floats in There’s No Time Like the ...

GoFundMe campaign launched to help comic creator R.E. Burke, victim of visa mixup, detained in US detention centre ( downthetubes.net )

Comic creator and illustrator R. E. Burke is currently being held in a US detention centre, after being detained at the US-Canada border due to visa issues while on a backpacking holiday. Now, a GoFundMe campaign organised by Jade Upshall is raising money to help her and Becky’s family, to get a lawyer who can fight for ...

Kids graphic novels sold a record £20 million in the UK in 2024 ( bleedingcool.com )

London Book Fair, kicking off today, has a greater graphic novel and comic book presence than ever, and it's not hard to see why. Publishers and presses at the IPG Conference at the end of last month saw Wilson talk about a shrinking children's book market in the UK as birth rates fall, cost-of-living pressures rise, and kids' ...

Details of British comic creator R.E. Burke's detention by ICE emerge ( bleedingcool.com )

Yesterday, Bleeding Cool reported on London-based comic book creator R.E. Burke, or Becky Burke, whose family is in Portskewett, Monmouthshire in Wales, being held in detention by I.C.E. in Washington state in the USA, after she crossed from the US to Canada and back again on a tourist visa, as part of a four-month backpacking ...

On the Margins: Comics, Gender, Identity & Subversion – comic conference announced ( downthetubes.net )

On the Margins: Comics, Gender, Identity & Subversion is an upcoming two-day conference about comics at Ulster University in Northern Ireland in May, “Exploring Why Comics Matter”. BEANO artist Nigel Parkinson is among the speakers, addressing the success of DC Thomson’s surviving humour weekly. ...

Happy 48th Birthday, 2000AD! Here’s a “Starter Pack” of Thrill Power, old and new… ( downthetubes.net )

Although cover dated 26th February 1977, today marks the 48th Anniversary of the launch of the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic, 2000AD! I think most readers of downthetubes will agree it’s one of the most vital and important British comics in the history of the medium, and one which still publishes mind-blowing new stories – every ...

Crowdfunding Spotlight: Ragtime Soldier by Pat Mills, Gary Welsh and Phillip Vaughan ( downthetubes.net )

Celebrating 50 years of Battle in 2025, Pat Mills, the creator of 2000AD, has launched his successor to “Charley’s War”, “Ragtime Soldier”, drawn by Gary Welsh and Phillip Vaughan, which first appeared in an eleven-page story in the Great War Dundee anthology, published in 2019. ...

London Horror Comic #11 - The latest issue of John-Paul Kamath's long-running series mixes slapstick horror with intense psychodrama ( www.brokenfrontier.com )

For the best part of two decades now John-Paul Kamath’s London Horror Comic has been a staple of the UK small press circuit. Kamath’s stories have been illustrated by a number of collaborators, with the bulk of the issues providing complete-in-one tales. A rare thing for a numbered genre comic and something that makes LHC an ...

Neil Gaiman: accuser files civil lawsuit alleging rape, sexual assault and human trafficking ( www.theguardian.com )

A woman from New Zealand has filed a civil lawsuit against bestselling British author Neil Gaiman and his estranged wife, musician Amanda Palmer, accusing Gaiman of repeatedly sexually assaulting her while she was working as the couple’s babysitter and nanny. ...

Marvel has no plans to publish Neil Gaiman's Miracleman: The Dark Age ( bleedingcool.com )

Marvel Comics recently told the New York Times that they have "no new books forthcoming" from Neil Gaiman. Gaiman had written a number of comic book series for Marvel over the years, including Eternals and 1602. But most recently, that was just the republication, recreation and continuance of the series he had written for ...

Terry Pratchett Estate removes Neil Gaiman from Good Omens Kickstarter ( bleedingcool.com )

The Good Omens Kickstarter was set up to fund the creation of a graphic novel adaptation by Colleen Doran of the Good Omens novel by Sir Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman. A remarkably successful crowdfunding scheme, it raised £2,419,973 from 36,867 backers. The Terry Pratchett Estate, which runs the Good Omens Kickstarter, had ...

The Trigan Empire rises again, with new adventures ( downthetubes.net )

The Rise and Fall of the Trigan Empire, created by writer Mike Butterworth and artist Don Lawrence, is to get its first, stunning-looking new chapter in more than 40 years with New Adventures from the Trigan Empire by Michael Carroll and Tom Foster, launching in November from Rebellion. ...