ComicScene Magazine is Back, and Can Be Ordered Now!
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ComicScene is a magazine catering to comic fans and industry insiders, including publishers, creators, retailers, comic con and event organizers, academics, and media professionals. The magazine is based in the UK but is designed for those who love or work in the comic industry worldwide.
Published three times a year, the magazine's new look Issue 0, the 2024 Yearbook, will be launched in November.
The 100-page new-look magazine will be available in a compact format and you can order it here Order ComicScene – ComicScene.
In the magazine
- A month by month review of 2023 with all the comic movers and shakers of the year by Tom Fraser – are you or any of your favourites in there?
- A retrospective of the work of Kevin O’Neill by Luke Williams.
- With Tom King’s revision of Wonder Woman in shops we take a look back at Wonder Woman 1941/1942 in our History of Comics feature by Joan Ormrod.
- A look back at Bunty Comic by the late Colin Noble.
- Catherine Wild interviews Aly Fell about his animation and comic career and what to expect next from the Trick of the Light and Kissing Gate creator.
- We focus on European comics when Dean Simons takes a look at Jean Dupree and Spirou magazine.
- Richard Ruddick gives his recommendations for Young Graphic Novels.
- We introduce you to Comics Laureate Bobby Joseph.
- We are taken on a tour of what to expect at the Cartoon Museum this winter by Khadija Osman.
- Simon Birks tells us how to create a good Kickstarter, Dave Cook tells us more about his Killtopia series, Steve Tanner from Time Bomb Comics goes from Kickstarters to newsstand comics with Quantum and Alan Holloway explains why he is producing a tabloid comic in our Crowdfunder feature.
- Luke Williams is back with a look at the characters featured in the Treasury of British Comics Annual and Philip Vaughan interviews Anna Morozova about her comic experience and working on Smash comic.
- It’s pronounced sick. Myf Tristram tells us more about the Comics Cultural Impact Collective. This is part of our invitation to comic groups to let you know about them and tell us what they do. If you want to be featured in future issues please contact ComicScene at comicsceneuk@gmail.com
- John McShane gives the background story to the original publishers of FatMan Press ‘The Bogie Man’.
- Comic Events takes a closer look behind the scenes of the Steve Dillon exhibit and Comic Expo Bristol.
- Colin Noble takes a look at newspaper strips Axa and Beau Peep.
- Dr Rebecca Garcia Lucas introduces us to manga comics for younger readers and Atholl Buchan interviews manga creators from SaturdayAM.
- It was important for us to feature an original strip which has universal appeal and we think ‘Tara Togs’ by Stevie White fits the bill perfectly. Catch the 9 page ‘Hot Dog’ adventure in the ComicScene Yearbook 2024. When she is a huge star comic collectors will be after this issue so get in early!
- The comic creators who support ComicScene (either by the Kickstarter or purchasing a copy of the magazine) are featured in the Comic Industry Directory. There are 14 pages of contacts.
- The Godfather of Comics Pat Mills wrote for the original ComicScene magazine and we are pleased to say he is back – with the ‘Last Word’.
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