Things could be getting a little patchy for the next couple of weeks as I'm hard at work on The Art of Ron Embleton book, reprinting so...

Dick Tatham and Petula Clark Dick Tatham was briefly a contributor to Boys' World in the early 1960s but was better known as a mus...

An author who appeared on my radar many years ago, way back in the late 1970s when I was still at school, Bernard Buley remained stubbornly ...

... so says Caroline Horn in a news item published in The Bookseller (5 April). The growth in sales of graphic novels could see the title r...

Ron Clark at his drawing board in the 1980s It's a sad fact that my interest in the history of British comics and the creators behind th...

Although I try to stick exclusively to older British comics here in Bear Alley. Scroll down and you'll find I've mentioned a few new...

I'm digging into the vaults for this one. Vincent S. Daniel was born in Hammersmith, London, in 1874 and, after training as an art stude...

Following the recent mention of John M. Burns' work on Wuthering Heights , I was pointed towards another upcoming release from Classical...

From his creation in 1943, the Daily Mirror' s Garth strip exemplified the comic strip hero. Muscular, good-looking and fearless, never ...

The release of The Casebook of Sexton Blake has prompted me to dig out this example of a Sexton Blake spin-off strip. Blake featured in Kno...

I've spent all week at the scanner or cleaning up scans and I'm pleased to say that a few things are starting to come together. Firs...

Seán Michael Wilson has posted three pages from his Classic Comics adaptation of Wuthering Heights as well as covers to the upcoming The C...

The final, 43rd issue of The DFC was published today. It was previously announced that, if a buyer could not be found, the paper would ine...

The Knockout Annual for 1961 includes an episode of "Firebrand the Red Knight", drawn in the weekly Knockout by the easily reco...