February saw the arrival of the first London Super Comic Convention. An enormous hall at the ExCel in Docklands was filled by fans, cosplayers, stalls, comic creators and something like a god. Amongst the mortals, the mighty Stan Lee walked, smiled, posed for photos, bringing joy and goodwill to all.

Fortunately, little by little, comics are creeping into national consciousness. It's accepted that the comic format can and regularly does have the same depth as a prose novel. Though tensions are still high in places, the graphic novel at least is broadly accepted as an equal citizen in the literary world.

President Barack Obama's fall from American saviour and harbinger of world peace to fallible politician who might yet lose an election to Mitt Romney ...

If you were to transplant the TV series Lost from the mysterious island setting to Hogwarts, then you would have an inkling of what Nick Skelton and Joe Eisma's ongoing comic book creation Morning Glories is like.

The start of the Paralympics is being marked in The Beano with an adventure featuring one of the expected stars of the Games. Oscar Pistorius joins...

It has been ten years since Y: The Last Man was released, and we are still feeling the after-effects of this ground-breaking comic series. Released through the Vertigo imprint of DC Comics, series creator Brian K. Vaughan took what was already established, and pushed the envelope of what was possible to new levels during the sixty-issue run. The results of Brian's efforts witnessed the bar being raised for all that came after. Rarely have the words "a modern classic" been so appropriate.

The final printed issue of the UK's longest-running children's comic will be released on its 75th birthday in December, its publishers have said. T...

Britain’s oldest children’s comic, The Dandy, is facing closure after 75 years. The comic, best known for cartoon character Desperate Dan who ...

Coldplay are to launch a comic book series about the character who inspired their last album. The comics will tell the story of Mylo Xyloto, a warr...

Welcome to America's nightmare: welcome to America's second civil war. Written by Brian Wood, with artwork by Riccardo Burchielli, DMZ is a comic series set in an unspecified near-future during America's second civil war.

The brain-child of Horns author Joe Hill, and the artist Gabriel Rodriguez, Locke and Key is an ongoing comic book fantasy-horror series produced by IDW Publishing. The premise of Locke and Key is both stunningly simple and wonderfully original.

It is news that will delight comic book fans across the world - DC Comics are planning to release a series of prequels to Watchmen. One of the most...