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Freelance author and editor for the past 30 years. My interests are old British comics, books and magazines... and that's what you'll find here.
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Friday, October 17, 2025

Comic Cuts — 17 October 2025

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It's always nice to begin with some good news. On Tuesday I received three boxes filled with about 60 books, restocking a few titles tha...
Wednesday, October 15, 2025

Rebellion Releases — 15 October 2025

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‘Tis the season for chills and thrills — and you’ll be positively horrified to find there’s up to 80% off comics and graphic novels collecti...
Friday, October 10, 2025

Comic Cuts — 10 October 2025

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Just in case you missed it, I posted an extra Comic Cuts column on Sunday about my exploits at the Colchester Comic Mart. Scroll down, or fo...
Thursday, October 09, 2025

Commando 5895-5898

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Spooky season is here as creepy Commando i ssues 5895-5898 go on sale from today, Thursday, 9th October 2025! 5895 Commando vs Zombies 4 Squ...
Wednesday, October 08, 2025

Rebellion Releases — 8 October 2025

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In 1990 a seismic shock swept through the comics industry, as an upstart new comics anthology rumbled into production for the first time. Ju...
Sunday, October 05, 2025

Comic Cuts — 5 October 2025

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Saturday's Colchester Comic Mart began on a bright note—Storm Amy had blown through on Friday and it had rained most of the day, but, fo...

Dogfight Dixon, Psycho Warriors and Swordsmen

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One of the latest batch of hardback Fleetway Picture Library Classics from Book Palace reprints some of my favourite episodes from the pages...
Saturday, October 04, 2025

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13 Oct.  Grant Morrison  shows off a couple of pieces of artwork from his bijou collection. Grant was also recently interviewed in July for...
Friday, October 03, 2025

Comic Cuts — 3 October 2025

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By the time you read this I will be shot full of vaccine to protect me from the flu and Covid over the coming winter months. Although I spen...
Thursday, October 02, 2025

Robot Archie and the World of the Future

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I was reading occasional issues of  Lion  around the period that this latest collection of Robot Archie  stories reprints. My seven-year-old...
Wednesday, October 01, 2025

Rebellion Releases — 1 October 2025

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He’s the superpowered superbrat – Grant Morrison and Steve Yeowell’s ‘Zenith’ is the cutting superhero horror satire from the pages of 2000 ...
Monday, September 29, 2025

Illustrators #48 — Summer 2025

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It has been a couple of years since I last saw  Illustrators , so it's good to be able to say that it hasn't lost any of its design ...
Friday, September 26, 2025

Comic Cuts — 26 September 2025

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I'm pleased to write that it has been a busy and productive week. In fact, the weekend was somewhat manic as some information I was wait...
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Thursday, September 25, 2025

Commando 5891-5894

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Ace pilot Bomber Braddock returns in his latest adventure alongside other fantastic tales in Commando issues 5891-5894 on sale from today, ...
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