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 ...