Rusty Staples’ Sixth Anniversary Celebration!

Today we are six! Blimey, that was quick!

Most Popular Posts of 2023!

Let's take a look at Rusty Staples' most popular posts of 2023!

Friday Flashback: Warrior

Now, this is the stuff!

Hatch, Match & Dispatch – March 2022

It's an ancient Celtic tradition that every February 26th we take a look at the comics that will be celebrating an important anniversary in the coming month...

Comics on TV: The Young Ones

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

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 – …

Hatch, Match & Dispatch – January 2020

We're into 2020 now, which means that 1940 was a round number of years ago. This in turn means that this year we'll be acknowledging the anniversaries of the deaths of a lot of British comics thanks to the paper shortages of World War II. None for January, thankfully, but they're coming (spoiler: one of …

Oddities #20191101

A somewhat personal oddity this time, though I guess it's not necessarily all that odd... This is the bag I was given in Forbidden Planet in Denmark St., London, on Tuesday May 25th, 1982. It was my first ever visit to an actual comic-book store, so naturally I kept the bag because I was a …