Circulation figures for the first six months of 2008 have just been released by ABC, so here's our bi-annual round-up. (See here for th...

Published by Prion Books on 1 September 2008. A collection along the lines of the Jackie books that Carlton have done in the past, includin...

This is what's happening right now.

I usually start these columns with the stuff I've been working on and then get onto something more interesting but I just can't resi...

Back on July 14th I posted a Top 20 for the best-selling British graphic novels (i.e. collections of stories of UK origin rather than Briti...

Published by Prion Books on 1 September 2008. Follow-up to the Valentine Picture Library volume published by Prion in February 2008. Not my...

Bertha Fry was born Bertha Howick in 1883, the daughter of John Howick and his wife Anne, her birth registered in Westhampnett, W. Sussex. S...

(Originally posted 21 December 2007; updated because I recently stumbled across quite a bit of new information.) Whilst there are many artis...

The author of a squib of an anti-war fairy tale in The Children's Newspaper —'The Pollogy Bird' in the 27 September 1941 issue—b...

Frank Crisp was a popular children's author in the 1950s and 1960s who has rather fallen out of the spotlight. His most popular series w...

Norah Burke has been on my radar for many years and it was only last night that I finally managed to track down her death. I think I first n...

This is spooky... on Sunday I was bemoaning the lack of newsstand comics in the UK aimed at early school age children and on Monday the foll...

One of the serials that ran in the Children's Newspaper in 1964 was a reprint of Runaway Riders, originally published by The World'...

A relatively quiet week after all the disruption of the past couple of months. We're slowly getting our lives back in order now that we...