#comic showcase

Missing Art: “Carol Day” newspaper strip boards from the Daily Mail sought for new collection – can you help?

Chris Killackey, an ardent American fan of the 1950s British newspaper strip “Carol Day“, has taken up the search for missing artwork for a new collection, along with Roger Clark – and is hoping collectors who bought boards from London’s long since closed Comic Showcase in the 1980s can help. “Carol Day”, the creation of writer Peter Meriton and artist David Wright, was published in the Daily…

Collecting Comic Art: An Interview with 2000AD art collector Robert Cox

Robert Cox is a British Comic art collector who has been collecting mainly 2000AD artwork since the early 1990s. Morgan Spiceman interviews him about his hobby…

Morgan Spiceman: Who is your favourite artist or artists?

Robert: My favourite artist is, unquestionably, Massimo Belardinelli. I’ve had a long-standing love of his artwork for over 40 years, so I guess if it was going to wear off it…

Paying it Forward: The Road to the Breakthrough Project by Tim Pilcher

Breakthrough project co-ordinator Tim Pilcher talks about the people who helped him find his feet in the comics industry, and how that has led to the Lakes International Comic Art Festival’s innovative new project to develop new comics talent…

As reported earlier, Breakthrough is an 18-month mentoring initiative set up by the Lakes International Comic Art Festival, in conjunction with Arts…