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Oxford is the home to two of England's biggest comic book publishers, DFC, publishers of Phoenix Weekly, and Rebellion, publishers of 2000AD and Judge Dredd Megazine And they are being joined by Scotland's biggest comic book publisher DC Thompson, of The Beano, for a new exhibition in Oxford's Story Museum, running from the end of[...]

Once upon a time, there used to be both a Fantastic Store in the centre of Oxford and a Comics Showcase, down the hill, at the top of the Cowley Road By the time I got there living at the bottom of the Cowley road, there was only the latter I met Brendon Connelly there… and[...]

Tickets here. Caption, the long standing British small press comics convention at the East Oxford Community Centre in Oxford is on this weekend with guests Rian Hughes, Andrzej Klimowski, Danusia Schebal, Al Davison, Paul Collicutt , Karen Rubins, Ian Rakoff and Charles Cutting, from 11am till 11pm on Saturday and 11pm to 5pm on Sunday. A little[...]

Because Caption, returning to Oxford this weekend for its 19th year, is a small press comic book convention Not that it doesn't get big names of course Indeed it has the highest ratio of attending comic book creators to fans I've ever seen Indeed creators generally outnumber the readers. This year they include Paul Grist, Al[...]

The current artist of the long running Belgian/French comics series Black And Mortimer, André Juillard, has a problem. He needs pictures of Oxford train station from the nineteen fifties for research and reference. And he has none. But it's possible some of you do Hell, it's possible Brendon does. He needs shots of the train platform and the building[...]