Comic Books – Should Your Child Read Them?
Cover of the Week: Awake June 22nd 1983 TLDR: No Awake was a magazine of the Jehovah’s Witnesses. Continue reading Comic Books – Should Your Child Read Them?
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Capital Sci-Fi Con
Edinburgh Corn Exchange – February 16th 2019 The Capital Sci-Fi Con held in Edinburgh every year is a nice event and seems to get bigger and more ambitious every year. All the profits go to CHAS the children’s hospice charity and is a voluntary effort which clearly a lot of work goes into. This year the star guest was Peter Capaldi who was signing and … Continue reading Capital Sci-Fi Con
!GAG! – Cover of the Week
Cover of the Week !GAG! from Harrier Comics, July 1987. Cover by Ed Pinsent. I had a nice follow up to this post from cover artist Ed Pinsent. How nice to see this. That’s my “painterly” drawing style – I went nuts with the flexible nib! I think Phil Elliott added the colours with hand-separation. This was the height of the so-called “black and white … Continue reading !GAG! – Cover of the Week
Cult reading
Left by Steven Ingram Sam is the kind of young person you might see in Edinburgh. Maybe a student, maybe a young worker. Cool haircut brushed long over the left side. But get to know her, and you might find out why she wears her hair like that. Her left ear has been removed. Samantha grew up in The Community. I suppose in normal society … Continue reading Cult reading
The Beano
Cover of the Week – The Beano issue 1989, August 1980 Continue reading The Beano
Divided they Fall
2019 is the year we move from United to Divided. I refer of course to Jonny Cannon‘s The United comic. The United was the story of a modern UK superhero team, that didn’t shy away from the impact of our shifting political substructure, of a country that is ostensibly united, but divided by class, by nation and in so many other ways. The United is … Continue reading Divided they Fall
Did those feet in ancient times
A New Jerusalem by Benjamin Dickson published by New Internationalist As we stumble towards the latest Brexit political crisis we have heard of lot about our valiant island history and the sacrifices of our stoic forbears. ‘No deal? – well we managed through World War Two, through the blitz didn’t we?’ The reality of war is rather different of course and when the war is … Continue reading Did those feet in ancient times
Whizzer and Chips with Krazy Comic
Cover of the Week A great example of the British merged comic – which always began with the dread words ‘great news for readers inside’. Whizzer and Chips was always a favourite with greats like The Bumpkin Billionaires who kept trying to get rid of their money but always ended up with more. This issue is from 28th July 1979. Continue reading Whizzer and Chips with Krazy Comic
Halo Jones
Cover of the Week 2000 A.D. Prog 406. Alan Moore and Ian Gibson’s Halo Jones – still one of the best things that Tharg ever published. Continue reading Halo Jones
Ghost of the Firth
Beneath the Law by Julie Campbell Berwick Law is the hill that dominates North Berwick, a picturesque town on the River Forth a short train ride from Edinburgh. With sweeping views across the Forth to the Bass Rock and Fife and home to seabirds, crows (the clever, talking kind) and the ghost of a whale. One crow, actually a piebald Jackdaw, makes friends with the … Continue reading Ghost of the Firth
Daredevils and Warriors 