Hatch, Match & Dispatch – February 2022

February is the shortest month but it's also the hardest to spell. Coincidence? I don't not think so!

Comics on TV: The Young Ones

Once in every lifetime comes a sitcom like this...

Hatch, Match & Dispatch – May 2021

Let's take a look at some of the British comics that will be celebrating (or commiserating, or completely ignoring) important anniversaries in May 2021!

British Comics Top-10 Issue-Count Chart – 2021a edition!

The officially unofficial guide to the most successful British Comics ever! (In terms of the number of issues, that is.)

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!

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.

Oddities: Judge Dredd movie promo badge

Judge Dredd badges are not that odd as such -- I'm the proud owner of the best part of a dozen of various different styles -- but the one we're featuring today is a little unusual because it's fairly rare, and it's rather large. But first, a bit of a preamble (it wouldn't do at …

Retro interview: Steve Dillon, 1990

This interview was first published in issue #7 of FTL -- the magazine of the Irish Science Fiction Association -- in October 1990. It was reprinted in issue #33 of Journey Planet in December 2016. Steve Dillon is a young British comic artist living in Dublin. Well, perhaps “artist” is too limiting a term – …