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Wrongdoing in Spain and England 14 Aug 2013 | 12:37 pm
Purely by chance, I picked up a leaflet for an exhibition called “Wrongdoing in Spain and England in the Long Ninteenth Century” while waiting for a bus one day. It’s an exhibiton focused around sensa...
The Sexton Blake Library is coming back! 21 May 2013 | 12:30 am
I love Sexton Blake. An article about him in issue 232 of the Judge Dredd Megazine (May 2005, back when it was £4.50 for 100 pages of varied and interesting reading – it’s golden era) was what started...
Strip Magazine is BACK! 28 Apr 2013 | 04:00 am
After a difficult birth and an even more difficult “childhood”, with waits of many months between some issues (and the entire consignment of one issue, which ended up being ‘combined’ with another, go...
The wartime Big Comic 31 Mar 2013 | 12:56 am
Inflation moved pretty slowly until the Second World War. A penny bought you one of the earliest Penny Dreadfuls in the 1830′s and could still have bought you one of the cheaper comics almost 100 year...
Comments update 29 Mar 2013 | 11:46 pm
As I mentioned in a previous post, the “upgrade” to the blog vastly increased the number of spam comments it received (it has also made it much harder to create “3 across” image “galleries” like I use...
The new press regulations 21 Mar 2013 | 01:52 am
New press regulations going through parliament will apparently force newspapers to make their stories “factually accurate”. While some may see this as a blow to free speech (opinion-as-journalism is a...
Blog update 2 20 Mar 2013 | 12:19 pm
Well, the “upgrade” to the blog has been completed. It now has an ugly design and less customisation options. Also, the old version of the blog recieved maybe 10 spam comments ever, allowing open comm...
Peeps at foreign comics 3: Novel Lynx 8 Mar 2013 | 01:38 pm
Right then. I mentioned Novel Lynx before, when I reviewed the first (and only, it turned out) issue of Pulp Detective. More recently, my sea-mailed package of goodies from Japan actually arrived, and...
Blog update notice 1 Mar 2013 | 01:55 am
My host has informed me that sometime in March my comic blog (this one) will be “migrated to Wordpress”. As far as I knew, it already was a Wordpress blog, though hosted on their site and with several...
Boys 22 Jan 2013 | 03:05 am
Boys was one of the lesser-known “middle class” story papers produced in the late 19th century (in the vein of The Boys’ Own Paper, Chums and The Captain). It ran for just two years between 1892 and 1...
