Mastodawn

Just backed the Kickstarter for the new Dan Dare by Alex De Campi & Marc Laming, coming from B7Media (who also do the DD audio stories)
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/798979572/dan-dare-graphic-novel

Love DD, eager to see their take on this classic Brit #comics character. Last one to get the spirit of it was the Garth Ennis & Gary Erskine take, which was modern but true to the original spirit.

#GraphicNovels #BandeDessinee #books #livres #DanDare #Kickstarter #AlexDeCampi #MarcLaming #BritishComics

TheEdinburghBookshop Oct 31

#WhatWereReading : Joe adored the Grandville series by the great Bryan Talbot, eagerly awaiting this standalone prequel, which combines superb artwork & storytelling with layered references.

And yes, Joe is biased as he considers Bryan one of the greatest UK comics creators, and the Grandville series was a triumph (in his humble opinion)

Out now from Jonathan Cape

(and yes, that is a Star Trek top, we're dressed up for #Halloween in the bookshop today!)

#books #livres #GraphicNovels #BandeDessinee #BryanTalbot #TheCasebookOfStamfordHawksmoor #Grandville #UKComics #BritishComics #EuropeanComics #JonathanCape #bookstodon #RecommendedReading #comics

LordWoolamaloo Oct 23

"You cannot kill what doessss not live..."

#LunchtimeReading : revisiting an old superfiend, with the 2000AD Judge Death Mega Special, with cover artwork (of course!) by the mighty Brian Bolland, nicely timed for the spooky season.

And yes, I have been reading this comic so long I remember Bolland drawing his anti-life character way back in his original appearance!

#comics #BandeDessinee #AmReading #ScienceFiction #BritishComics #2000AD #JudgeDredd #JudgeDeath #BrianBolland #Halloween

MSchilder Oct 4

Stramash by James Corcoran

An noir grim and gritty british crime comic with a horror twist. Great art, cool pulpy story. And the artist made a beaten up portret of me 😎

#stramash #jamescorcoran #comics #britishcomics #independentcomic #kickstarter

LordWoolamaloo Jul 3, 2025

Day off, chilling, spinning some #vinyl , planning my film festival screenings, and a good 2000 AD catch-up. Rob Williams writing Dredd, with R M Guera on Art Droid duties. Zarjaz.

#comics #BandeDessinee #2000AD #JudgeDredd #CuidadBarranquila #MegaCity #ScienceFiction #RMGUera #RobWilliams #BritishComics #UKComics #ComicsArt #Art #9thArt

LordWoolamaloo Jun 15, 2025

Just backed Ilya's #Kickstarter for his Romo the WolfBoy graphic novel https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ilyagraphic/romo-the-wolfboy-by-writer-artist-ilya

Top Indie #comics and well worthy of your support, if you can.

#BandeDessinee #GraphicNovels #RomoTheWolfBoy #ILYA #IndieComics #BritishComics #UKComics #books #livres #Bookstodon #Fundraiser

LordWoolamaloo Apr 14, 2025

Day off, enjoying leisurely lunch, vast pot of JDFC (Joe's Damned Fine Coffee), spiced liberally with Thrill Power as I have my 2000 AD & Megazine catch-up read. (cover art from Judge Dredd Megazine #479 by Toby Willsmer)

#comics #BandeDessinee #ScienceFiction #AmReading #2000AD #JudgeDredd #BritishComics #UKComics #bookstodon #JudgeDreddMegazine #art #9thArt #ComicArt

ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝 Mar 27, 2025

Worlds Collide: Grant Morrison & Etienne Kubwabo return to superheroes

https://feddit.uk/post/26424357

Worlds Collide: Grant Morrison & Etienne Kubwabo return to superheroes - Feddit UK

cross-posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/26424306 [https://feddit.uk/post/26424306] > > Grant Morrison’s Captain Clyde was the comic book writer’s first published superhero work, which they also drew. A local superhero to the Clyde area, it ran in the Govan Press and the Clydebank & Renfrewshire Presses from 1979 to 1982 on the TV listings pages. It also included some proto-superhero revisionist ideas and superheroes dealing with real-life situations and locations. Captain Clyde was Chris Melville, an unemployed Glaswegian who was transformed by the standing stones of the Orkneys, granted magical powers by the goddess Elen, and would defend Glasgow against villains such as Quasar and Deros and would finally meet his end after a fight to the death with the devil. > > > >Fellow Scot Etienne Kubwabo is a film director who has also created comics, including the first Black Scottish superhero DJ ET in his comic book Beats of War, which was part of the Black Lives Matter Mural Trail, with a large-scale artwork installed at Platform Arts Centre in Glasgow’s East End. He has toured Scotland with the comic to inspire the next generation through superhero-themed workshops. > > > > And now Grant Morrison and Etienne Kubwabo are bringing their superheroes, created half a century apart, together, for a new comic book project, Worlds Collide with Captain Clyde and DJ ET, with art by Ben Wilsonham. > > > > Details as they stand are rather scant. But we look forward to finding out more…

ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝 Mar 26, 2025

John Wagner, Mike Perkins to team on new Judge Dredd story, DEATH OF A JUDGE

https://feddit.uk/post/26384107

John Wagner, Mike Perkins to team on new Judge Dredd story, DEATH OF A JUDGE - Feddit UK

> In a cryptic announcement Tuesday, 2000AD announced a new Judge Dredd story called Death of a Judge, coming soon from artist Mike Perkins and the character’s co-creator, John Wagner. > > But that’s really all the information that the U.K. publisher shared, other than it will appear in the pages of 2000 AD. We don’t, however, yet know when the story will begin. > >A story dubbed Death of a Judge with Wagner attached as writer does feel like a big deal, though. Potentially. Judge Dredd ages more than your normal well-known comics character, and so it doesn’t feel like a major jump to presume this story might actually kill Judge Dredd. Unlikely? Perhaps! But who really knows. > >Wagner is always liable to switch up the Judge Dredd status quo with a consequential story arc. Death of a Judge will mark his first new work with the character since last year’s Judge Dredd: Machine Rule (read Wagner talking about it here), which wrapped up in September. That arc had more consequences for (robot) characters around Dredd than for Dredd himself, so maybe this one is due.

ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝 Mar 25, 2025

UK comic book makers join forces as AI copycat battle awaits

https://feddit.uk/post/26350554

UK comic book makers join forces as AI copycat battle awaits - Feddit UK

> The makers of comic book heroes from Dennis the Menace to Judge Dredd are banding together to take on their biggest enemy yet — AI copycats. > >A newly formed trade association, Comic Book UK, will bring together companies such as DC Thomson, which publishes the Beano, and Rebellion Entertainment, which makes 2000AD. > >Other members will include The Phoenix Comic, which has published the Bunny vs Monkey series, graphic novel company Avery Hill Publishing and Fable, a digital comics platform. > >The group will lobby for government and investor recognition that UK comics are an important export industry and develop valuable intellectual property. > >One of the most immediate issues will be securing the industry’s future as the UK government considers proposals to relax copyright laws to train AI models. > > … > > Comic Book UK says the industry produces hundreds of thousands of pages of comic book content every year and has extensive archives of historic content. > >British publishers are behind some of the most recognisable comic characters in titles “enjoyed by hundreds of thousands of readers every week and graphic novels read by millions more each year”, it says. These characters are often used in films, TV programmes and video games. Comic book content is particularly valuable for generative AI training because it is both highly visual and narrative driven, it argues. > >The group warns that exemption proposals are not feasible in practice and will fail to provide rights holders with appropriate control over and means to seek remuneration for the use of their content and IP in AI training. > >This will inhibit the growth of the comics industry, it said. Archive [https://archive.ph/6O5rZ]