British comics Archives

EXCLUSIVE PREVIEW: Roxy – Rebellion’s New Romance Anthology!

July 18, 2024

WWAC is proud to present an exclusive preview of Rebellion’s new romance anthology Roxy, which you can now support on Kickstarter! Click through to see a preview of “The Getaway Girls” by Alex de Campi and Erica Henderson, as well as Roxy covers by Tula Lotay, Hannah Templer, ...

Comics, Essays

Spacewarp, Shift and The 77: Reviving British Anthology Comics

March 5, 2021

The phrase “British comics” has, over recent decades, seen a quite drastic shift in meaning. For a long time, British comics were affordable entertainment that youngsters picked up at the newsagent with their pocket money, and which covered a variety of genres from knockabout comedy to swooning ...

Comic Strips, Comics, Reviews

Sweeney Toddler is Good, Gloopy Fun

May 9, 2019

Sweeney Toddler Leo Baxendale (art/lineart/lettering) Treasury of British Comics/Rebellion April 2019 Sweeny Toddler is a wonderfully ridiculous little comic strip. Beloved by Brits, who first saw him in the pages of Shiver ‘N’ Shake Magazine, the semi-vicious toddler and his exasperated ...

Comics, Opinion, Reviews

Of Window Washers and Walkovers: Bella at the Bar

July 17, 2018

Bella at the Bar Jenny McDade & Primrose Cumming (Writers), John Armstrong (Artist) Rebellion July 2018 In 1971, Fleetway began publishing Tammy, a weekly comic for girls. One of its long-running stars was the newly-collected Bella at the Bar. However, what new readers might not realize ...

Comics, Reviews

Corpse Talk: Ground-Breaking Comics

February 24, 2018

Corpse Talk: Ground-Breaking Women Adam and Lisa Murphy Phoenix at David Fickling Books, March 1st 2018 There are children for whom this will rank among the most valuable books of their lives, and it only costs ten pounds (penny change). I appreciate this is an introduction with what’s perhaps ...

Comic Strips, Comics, Reviews

Nothing You Can Say Can Tear Me Away From My Guy: Semi-Radical Romance Comics

February 1, 2018

There’s nothing like a good bit of media to bring to mind a good bit of criticism—to deepen it, to clarify. There’s nothing like freedom to remind you of discipline—how it works, which parts help you grow, which parts curtail. I read a lot of comics made for mean slutty girls, and I had to go ...

Comics

Hollers and Amazons: Leo Baxendale’s Bad Girls

May 16, 2017

When British comic legend Leo Baxendale sadly passed away last month at the age of 86, he left behind a rich legacy of truly brilliant characters. The “enfant terrible” Sweeney Toddler, the affable archvillain Grimly Feendish, the blundering Three Bears–each of these left their mark ...

British comics

EXCLUSIVE PREVIEW: Roxy – Rebellion’s New Romance Anthology!

Spacewarp, Shift and The 77: Reviving British Anthology Comics

Sweeney Toddler is Good, Gloopy Fun

Of Window Washers and Walkovers: Bella at the Bar

Corpse Talk: Ground-Breaking Comics

Nothing You Can Say Can Tear Me Away From My Guy: Semi-Radical Romance Comics

Hollers and Amazons: Leo Baxendale’s Bad Girls

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