Vote for Rusty in the Irish Comic News Awards!

I'm delighted to see that in the Irish Comic News Awards I've been shortlisted for Best Irish Writer (Non-Fiction)*, plus my blog Rusty Staples has been shortlisted for Best Comic Related/Featured Online Content! Honestly, it's an honour just to be nominated! But, to be even honester, it'd be much, much more of an honour to …

Most Popular Posts of 2020!

Looking back on Rusty Staples' most popular posts of 2020!

And the Winner is…

So... how'd you do in the Great Rusty Staples 2021 Calendar British Comics’ Logo Identification Competition?

The Great Rusty Staples 2021 Calendar British Comics’ Logo Identification Competition!

Identify the comics' logos and you could win some utterly awesome books!

Hatch, Match & Dispatch – Jan 2021

Let's take a look at the British comics that are celebrating (or commiserating) an important anniversary in the coming month...

Wesolych Swait Bozego Narodzenia, readers!

The second -- and final -- part of your amazing end-of-year free gift!

Merry Zableepa, one and all!

The first part of your super-not-bad free bonus gift!

Retro Interview: Evan Skolnick, 1995

As long-time readers of this blog might be aware, one of my all-time favourite superhero comics is the first volume of Marvel's New Warriors (Jul 1990 to Sep 1996)... Art by Mark Bagley and Jackson Guice It's a comic that took a bunch of Marvel's discarded characters -- Nova, Firestar, Speedball, Marvel Boy and Namorita …

Comics That Never Were #9

2000AD went missing for five weeks at the end of 1978 and to be honest, I'm still not completely over it.

In-Shallow Profile: Bram Stoker’s Dracula

So, kids, back in the early 1990s Francis Ford Coppola made a big-budget adaptation of Dracula, the famous vampire novel written by Irish writer Bram Stoker (Bram is short for "Abraham" by the way -- just thought I'd get that in early in case I forget). The movie was very definitely a Big Thing because …