Posted over at Bear Alley Books , the front cover of the upcoming Cursitor Doom collection.

Not much of a post today as we were in party mode last night. However, I would like to mention that one of the books I was involved in last ...

Just posted at Bear Alley Books: an episode of "Brian's Brain" from the pages of Fantastic Summer Special 1968.

I'm pleased to say Bear Alley Books is now taking pre-orders for Cursitor Doom and Phantom Patrol . At the moment the only payment met...

Hope you've enjoyed this week's posts on ancient broadsheet seller Jemmy Catnach and related. As mentioned in the comments, I took t...

According to a website on female artists, "Little is known about Sarah Catherine Martin." Oh, I do like a challenge. Sarah, you...

Here's another proto-comic from the presses of James Catnach. Again, this was reproduced by Charles Hindley in his biography, The Life a...

(* Continuing the life of James Catnach, printer and publisher of broadsheets... scroll down for part 1—Steve) The class of literature which...

(* I was digging around for information on James "Jemmy" Catnach yesterday and found a very handy summary of his life in the Newca...

Yesterday's post on Aaargh! inspired a little bit of digging. In the Bumper Souvenir Brochure, actually a flimsy 12-pager printed by IP...

As far as I'm aware, Aaargh! was the first major exhibition of comics in the UK. I may be wrong—I'm sure there must have been exhibi...