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David Fickling Books and the British weekly comic book The Phoenix Comic, published by sister publisher David Fickling Comics, will launch a new comic-book imprint, The Phoenix Comic Books, in January 2025. The two companies have previously published collections like Jamie Smart's Bunny vs Monkey (with five more signed) and Neill Cameron's Mega Robo Bros[...]

Jamie Smart's Bunny Vs Monkey series of graphic novels that have spun out of Phoenix Comics Weekly for over a decade, and have consistently topped the British bestselling book charts of late And now Phoenix and publisher David Fickling Books, or DFB,  have got out the contracts and have tied Jamie Smart down to five[...]

Jamie Smart Is Britain's Best Selling Comic Book Creator By Far, With Bunny Vs Monkey, From David Fickling Books

Jamie Smart wins Best Illustrated Children’s Book and Best Illustrator for Bunny Vs Monkey: Multiverse Mix-Up at the British Book Awards 2024

While artist Adam Stower is a longstanding children's book illustrator, writer and comic book creator, including Bottoms up!, Silly Doggy, Troll and the Oliver, the King Coo strip from Phoenix Comics Weekly and previously illustrated Walliams' book The World's Worst Pets. Comic industry reacts to David Walliams' entry So what will everyone else think of a major celebrity like[...]

The Fangdellas is a new MG graphic novel by political cartoonist Chris Britt, about the adventures of a multigenerational vampire family.

The shortlists for the British Book of the Year awards are revealed today, including Dave McKean being nominated as the illustrator for Tyger by S.F. Said.

I'm literally getting to draw the most amazing comics team-up of all time and I can't wait for visitors to get to come and experience it for themselves.'' KA-BOOM! is to open alongside the sold-out Phoenix Comic Festival, which is taking place at The Story Museum from 28 – 29 May The festival, which will celebrate[...]

Yesterday, as expected, Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced a new lockdown for England and anyone else who wants to play along. From Thursday, that

But comics like 2000AD, the Beano and the Phoenix Comics Weekly show just what can be done in that format, week in, week out Might it be an opportunity for IDW to bring some of that magic back to the USA?   When I was a kid, I grew up with Marvel weekly kids comics[...]

But what about the comics? Well both my girls used to read the Phoenix Comics Weekly, the best kids comic ever created, until they thought they were too old Like, last year But maybe it's time for a welcome and nostalgic regression for them both? Phoenix is, today, launching Q Club, a completely free daily[...]

Bleeding Cool hasn't run any April Fools this year -- but others weren't so reticent. We've rounded up some of the best April Fools from our favorite geeky brands.

The Phoenix: A Weekly Story Comic is one of the greatest things British parents can buy their children. And Scholastic will be picking up the prodigious

Another new Phoenix comic is hitting stores early next year! Joining the ranks of Phoenix: Resurrection at Marvel and its followup, X-Men Red, Scholastic is getting into the Phoenix comic game with The Phoenix Colossal Comics Collection: Volume One, hitting stores in March But this one doesn't star the red-headed Marvel hero Instead, it's a collection[...]

At casa Johnston in South West London, we don't give away sweets and candy. We give away comic books. A mix of sci-fi, superhero and the Phoenix Weekly.

My nine-year-old daughter is a keen weekly subscriber to a weekly anthology comic, Phoenix Weekly, which yet again fails to get an Eisner Awards

Feel free to check out your own copies here. And to celebrate, they are running a competition to give away five years worth of The Phoenix, issues 0-262 all bound up, on social media…. The @phoenixcomicuk is 5 years old! RT & follow to win a FULL SET of every Phoenix issue ever! (262 comics!) plus binders![...]

It arrived yesterday morning, as it always does on a Friday. The new copy of Phoenix Weekly for my eight year old daughter. I get to read it on a

We're big fans of the Phoenix Weekly comic at Bleeding Cool Towers. And tomorrow, just as I am planning to head out of the country, my favoured newspaper

So, as promised, I’m traveling in the UK this week from the States and wasn’t sure whether I could crash in on a UK retailer, but Orbital Comics in London

Paul Duffield may be best known for Freakangels, the webcomic with Warren Ellis by Bleeding Cool's publisher Avatar Press. Well now he's gone out and done

Alasdair Stuart writes for Bleeding Cool Jamie Smart has been one of my favorite comic creators for years. He's the man responsible for the wonderful Bear

Bleeding Cool has been repeatedly praising Phoenix Comic, a weekly anthology comic for kids sold in Britain Indeed we've suggested that if you know kids in the UK that don;'read Phoenix, it's tantamount to neglect not to let them read Phoenix. Well now I'm taking that international As Phoenix Comic has launched a newiOS  app, with[...]

The Phoenix Weekly comic book is, basically, the best comic book ever created for children. Better than The Eagle, better then Tiger, better than early