Comic Art News

TEN THINGS ABOUT ASTERIX - AS A NEW ASTERIX BOOK LOOMS

Posted by John Reynolds on October 7, 2025

TEN THINGS ABOUT ... ASTERIX Asterix is Europe's favourite comic book character – the Asterix books have sold more than 400 million copies (globally this surpassed only by the 500 million copies of "One Piece", a Japanese manga creation). So hard to quibble with the assertion that he's an indispensable European cultural iconI'm the only screenprints (that I know of) who makes screenprints officially approved by the publisher, Editions Albert Rene. See my hand-pulled prints (there are currently 25 designs in my range) here: https://comic-art-website.myshopify.com/collections/asterix-obelixAsterix's 41st volume launches on October 23rd, 2025 (the first book came out in 1961)The first English...

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The making of a Moomin screenprint!

Posted by John Reynolds on March 13, 2024

I've secured a new licence to make screenprints featuring The Moomins!

Here's a little video showing how it's done.

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The making of a print

Posted by John Reynolds on November 28, 2023

How "Dennis The Menace Being Chased By A Copper" was made. Watch as I tear the paper, put down the red bar, then Dennis's jersey, then finally the black ink.

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NEW PRINT: HEATH ROBINSON'S TOP HAT

Posted by John Reynolds on May 3, 2022

NEW PRINT: HEATH ROBINSON'S TOP HAT

This is "Top Hat", one of Heath Robinson's, from 1916. There may be more to follow - his pen-and-ink drawings lend themselves to screenprinting.

William Heath Robinson (1872 – 1944) was an English artist, best known for drawings of unnecessarily complicated machines designed to achieve simple aims.

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NEW PRINT: REEFER MADNESS

Posted by John Reynolds on May 3, 2022

NEW PRINT: REEFER MADNESS

My first foray into the world of film posters.

This one is for an American anti-drug propaganda film called Reefer Madness from the 1930s. It tells the story some high school students who get addicted to marijuana with horrific consequences including suicide and attempted murder.

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