Comic Heroes - issue 32 out now

The latest issue (#32) of Comic Heroes, priced at £7.99, is now out

The latest issue, in case you weren't sure celebrates women in comics with a selection of features.

The focus on British comics this month features itesm such as

• Mike Stirling talking baout Beano Studios
• Treasury of British Comics line from Rebellion
• Leah Moore on Leo Baxendale
• Q&A with Frank Quitely
• a great selection of new comic / collection/ reference book releases
• 4 pages (!) on Flintlock

So, probably not as much as usual as then, apart from the 4-pages on Flintlock, a comic that I think is great, so I'm vert happy to see it getting so much coverage in the magazine.

As ever with Comic Heroes, the font is large, the pictures big (and some of those are really pixellated - which is slightly embarrassing I'd say from a magazine that wants £7.99 of your hard-earned cash).

With comics pre-eminent in pop culture at the moment it seems amazing that this is the only magazone out there devoted to comic (heroes) - so, go have a flick through it at a WHSmith store near you now!

Bank holiday reading sorted - part 1

A quick trip to London last night allowed me to rush around a few (comic) shops where I managed to buy enough stuff to keep me busy over the forthcoming bank holiday weekend...

First up is 50p well spent in the bargain corner of Forbidden Planet megastore on Shaftesbury Avenue. This is an A5 sized volume of Marvel UK Transformer repeats. Bad news for me is that it's book 4 (of 5) so I won't actually be reading it this weekend. I have got volumes 2 and 3 but I want to get volumes 1 and 5 as well.

The latest issue of Comic Heroes magazine is now out, a quick flick through but nothing that grabs my attention hugely so far with regards to British creators / strips etc.

An indie press moment for me as the Beast Wagon draws to a close. If you haven't read this comic then it's hard to describe it adequately. It's has an amazing rhythm to it, a terrible sense of events spiralling out of control as man and beast struggle to stay on top of their animal desires. It's brilliant.

What I actually went to London for...the opening of The Inking Woman exhibition at the Cartoon Museum. Review and photos coming soon. More details here

What are you going to read this weekend then?

Comic heroes issue 29

Just published, by Total Film it seems, is Comic Heroes issue 29. At £7.99, albeit quarterly, this is a magazine which often has to work hard to justify its place in my shopping basket, but this time around it has much to recommend it.

So there is:

• lead article on Rebellion's acquisition of the Fleetway archive
• a page on Hookjaw
• Warhammer 40k from Titan (2 pages)
• Leah Moore and John Reppion (2 pages)
• Simon Furman and Geoff Senior (2 pages) on To the death
• 8 pages on Brendan McCarthy
• 6 pages on Ben Haggarty & Adam Brockbank talking about Mezolith book 2 (you remember book one from the DFC comic right?)
• 8 pages on Jock
• and Flintlock issue 1 gets highlighted as one of the best indie comics around right now

And plenty more besides.



As ever, the pictures and big and the words well-spread out to help fill this out to a hefty 132 glossy pages.