Skywald Comics: Psycho Issue 08

Writing Magazine

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Stories To Make Them Shake

Oct 7, 2021

Scary Diary Press publishes titles of dark sci-fi/spec-fic/bizarro and horror fiction focused ‘on world issues that need a-fixing’. Currently they want short story submissions, 2,000-5,000 words, for an anthology (working title Bloody Rock) which ‘co

NPR

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Remembering Steve Ditko: Forget Kirby Dots, Let's Talk Ditko Sparkles

Jul 8, 2018

The idiosyncratic co-creator of Spider-Man, Doctor Strange and many lesser-known comics characters died last week. His distinctive storytelling style shaped generations of comics readers.

SFX

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Adam Eterno: A Hero For All Time

May 19, 2021

RELEASED 27 MAY Publisher Rebellion Writer Tom Tully Artists Tom Kerr, Francisco Solano López, Colin Page COLLECTION Even in the oddball pantheon of classic British comics, Adam Eterno is one of the stranger propositions. Debuting in the pages of Thu

Steam World

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Call Attention

Mar 15, 2024

In my feature on the branch lines to Windsor in last month's Steam World, I mentioned the connection between the railway and Salter's Steamers on the Thames at Windsor & Eton Riverside station. Steam still plies the river around Windsor and Runnymede

British Railway Modelling (BRM)

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A CELEBRATION OF BR STANDARD 9F 2-10-0S, by John Jennison, published by Irwell Press. PRICE: £28.95

Apr 20, 2023

This is the sixth in this pictorial series by the same author from the same publisher. As with all the others, it’s a veritable visual feast (which is what it sets out to do; and succeeds admirably). I must stress from the outset that I have an ‘inte

The Guardian

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Tunnock’s Tea Cakes, Depeche Mode And Non-stop Smoking – How TV Is Bringing The 80s To Life

Mar 16, 2023

It’s all too easy to take period drama for granted. Flick on the TV, open your laptop, and there you are: transported to a world that is at once foreign and deeply familiar. But how do you go about building a small-screen vision of the past? And what

Heritage Railway

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Lost Miniature Railways

Aug 30, 2022

By Jonathan James (softback, Mainline & Maritime, 60pp, £12.95, ISBN 978-1-900340-67-0). PART of Britain’s Miniature Railways series of books, No. 3 concentrates mainly on the lost miniature lines of South East England, ranging from lines that opened