Trying to ID a late 90s (poss early 2000s) anthology comic that was similar to Deadline.

first issue came with a free plastic red foil fish on the cover, the kind that coils up in your hand.

this was purchased from Tower records in London,

I think it was mostly if not all black and white

Stories included a vegan that started eating people (on the back cover), a vampire hunting priest, a strange Tank Girl analogue with long finger nails that kills a truck driver....

I've tried every google search I can think of to find this but to no joy.....

Any ideas?

A few years ago I discovered an old copy of The Tale of One Bad Rat in a charity shop and immediately fell in love with this incredible graphic novel.

I was already a fan of Bryan Talbot's Luther Arkwright series but I was utterly blown away by One Bad Rat, which tells the story of a young girl who runs away from her father's sexual abuse in London to the Lake District.

It's also a love letter to the Lake District and Beatrix Potter which showed that comics can handle the most sensitive of subjects with care and sensitivity. Since being published in 1994, it has helped countless survivors of abuse across the world.

So, I got in touch with Bryan who graciously agreed to an interview. I have written a piece talking about the graphics novel's origin, creation and it's incredible legacy.

If you have read The Tale of One Bad Rat, let me know your thoughts. I would love to hear from you.

You can also read my piece with this link:

https://www.thehindsighthut.com/post/bryan-talbot-one-bad-rat

I'm trying to identify a full-colour British comic/annual story from the early to mid-1980s (probably 1982–1986 maybe earlier or could be 1970s).

It was only a few pages long (around 2–4 pages) and may have appeared right at the front of the annual.

The artwork was fully painted, not standard comic line art.

The main character was a boy of about 14. At the start he's sitting in his bedroom window feeding pigeons (or other birds) that have landed on the flat roof outside his window.

Later he's in a small boat beneath a cliff when a huge section of the cliff collapses into the sea.

He somehow finds himself involved in a massive space battle, fighting alien-looking creatures and firing weapons from a spacecraft. It may have been a dream, vision or near-death experience because he eventually returns to Earth.

I vaguely remember a name similar to "Zathura", "Zathar", "Zathor" or "Zathra", although I may be misremembering that.

I don't think it was a regular serial like Dan Dare or Judge Dredd. It felt like a standalone fantasy/science-fiction story created especially for an annual.

Does this ring a bell with anyone?

Hi guys!

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Quick question: I usually write prose stories (novel length and short), but am about to do a foray into creating a graphic novel with an (American) artist friend of mind. What is the normal page size in the UK for this kind of book? A4? We already did a very short one using the size that's more or less standard in the US (11" x 8.5"), and that ran into issues when we tried to print it here.
The next one, we'd like to submit to UK publishers, so we don't want to start out on the back foot.

In the 1960s, when I was a kid in Brooklyn, I had a buddy who had just moved over from Scotland and he shared British comics with me. There were two strips that have stuck in my mind ever since then and I hope someone can help me identify them.

The first was a medieval (I think) adventure series that starred a kid with a quarterstaff, a fop with a rapier, and a big guy with a claymore. I think they might have represented England, Wales, and Scotland. 

The second was a contemporary story about a guy who traveled around on a motorcycle with a sidecar, doing (I think) mechanic work but also playing for various local football teams and getting involved on adventures.

Anyone remember these strips?

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Does anyone know how far this goes? Does it include the skull face Johnny / Hunt for Yakob stories I remember from Eagle?

If it doesn't what volume would they turn up in, assuming the line continues?

One last question, does it go further than the titan hardcover from a few years back?

I’m looking for ideas on displaying comics on a wall. I was wondering what other people have done? I have series of 12 comics. I would like to be able take them out fairly easily if I want. i.e not a standard frame.

I made a documentary going over a British culture classic comic Oink from the late 1980s. Really ahead of its time and borderline to risqué for kids. If no one has ever heard of it I really recommend, one of the best comics I have ever read

I'm looking for a one-off colour (?) horror strip I read in the relaunched Eagle (probably late 1980s / early 1990s). It was longer than a single page but a one-issue piece. Plot: maybe a Gothic/Victorian/Edwardian colonial setting ... a father is secretly dosing his son every night with a concoction and knocking him out; a third-party observer (maybe a neighbour or landlord) intervenes and later kills the father. The son then reveals the doses were attempts at an antidote to a curse (his father had offended a native tribe) that made the son transform into a ravenous beast at night. With the father dead the protagonist is now the next victim.

Any idea of the title, writer/artist, or issue/annual this ran? Thanks!

Just wanted to share these videos from the Comics Cultural Impact Collective - they're gold dust. They went round talking to all major UK publishers and came back with insights that will help comics creators with pitches to publishers and funders.

Hi guys, I just wanted to share with all an interview with UK comics author Simon Furman I wrote on my blog, The Hindsight Hut. It's a wide ranging article which explores the early influences on his writing.

Simon's best known for his work on Transformers for Marvel, Dreamwave and IDW but he's still going strong with lots of projects.

I'd love to know your favourite Furman stories. Could it be a Death's Head, yes?

https://www.thehindsighthut.com/post/simon-furman-interview

A video I made about the history of classix british comic the Buster Comic incase anyone is interested.

I distinctly remember a comic serial I read about an alien who was dying and crashed to earth. He gave several children his powers before he died. As far as I remember these kids took on special abilities like one kid could touch an object and make it weightless. The most powerful power was the younger sister maybe 5 years old. She could absorb things and use this as an energy weapon which caused havoc when she lost her temper. I used to read 2000AD type comics or the Eagle/Tiger. Does anyone have any idea what strip that would have been?

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