The British comics celebrating an important anniversary in January 2024.
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Hatch, Match & Dispatch – July 2023
We're just about half-way through the year, or in the terms of some classic British Comics that means we've reached the colour spread in the centre pages! Hooray! To celebrate, here's a look at some of the British comics that will be noting an important anniversary in July!
“Remind me again… What’s the publisher’s daughter’s name?”
It's long been a tradition for British comics aimed at girls to be given a girls' name (that is, a name we tend to commonly associate with female people), but -- not counting those whose title is the name of a character like Batman or Popeye -- how many comics can you list that have … Continue reading “Remind me again… What’s the publisher’s daughter’s name?”
Dateline: 26 Feb 1977
If you're a fan of British comics it possibly hasn't escaped your notice that 2000AD was launched this week(ish) in the year 1977. Some of the photons that left our sun on the day the comic was launched have potentially now travelled all the way to the binary star system of SZ Crateris. That's about … Continue reading Dateline: 26 Feb 1977
DC Thomson Comics Timeline
[Updated 20230829! Scroll all the way down to the end to see the update notes!] After three family trees focussing on IPC/Fleetway comics, it's time to take a look at their main rival, the noble Scottish house of DC Thomson, not to be confused with DC Comics (or even DC Thompson with a P as … Continue reading DC Thomson Comics Timeline