Spacewarp Created by Pat Mills, Mike Donaldson, Ian Ashcroft, Bruno Stahl, Ade Hughes, Gareth Sleighthome, James Newell, Cliff Cumber, Charles Gillespie, Lisa Mills, Vince Hunt. Spacewarp is an ambitious new comic masterminded by legendary 20000 A.D. editor Pat Mills – who writes all the stories within. The book spans a healthy 70 pages and features a cluster of stories around the theme of a reality-bending … Continue reading Warp Factor 77
Reading comics and collecting comics aren’t always synonymous. Some will spend years, decades, a lifetime hunting down runs of comics that they will never read. Why? They are completists, they like the thrill of the chase, the whiff of ancient newsprint and four color nostalgia. The long-sought comic in the back-issue bins, the box of bronze-age heaven that appears one day in a charity shop. … Continue reading Luck be a Lady – A brief history of Shamrock
The Spark As a history nerd I must admit that my first thought when I saw The Spark was, did they name it after Lenin’s pre-revolutionary Bolshevik newspaper Iskra? I mean, it would be educational but maybe not the best for an audience of primary school age. No, this Spark is a new title that describes itself as “an all-ages, sci-fi comic magazine”. The Spark … Continue reading Bright Sparks
Thought Bubble Comic Art Festival – November 2019, Harrogate As the floodplains of South Yorkshire faced inundation, travellers made their way, slowly, carefully and by unplanned routes around the waters and on to Harrogate. Through the magical towns along the railway line, Starbeck, Hammerton and Knaresborough – the town to where the murderers of Archbishop Thomas Becket fled in 1170. One can imagine the four … Continue reading Fresh Thoughts
The Writings and Ramblings of Ben Herman
This is a blog dedicated to what I have been lucky enough to find out about comics. I might add in some other geeky goodness, but it's mainly about the comics.
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Comics with a British focus
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