Lots of news on the UK Comics Nation blog where Baz Renshaw is organizing events as part of a year-long promotion of British comics, small and large. Leah Moore and John Reppion, writers of Albion will be signing at Travellin Man in Manchester on Sat 27th August, while on the same day creators from Underfire and Paper Tiger will be at David's Comics in Brighton. Meanwhile in Bristol Paul Grist will be signing at Area 51, also on the 27th.. Click through for more info.

Andy Bleck (the artist more commonly known as Andy Konky Kru and responsible for the early comics archive) has posted up his
recent drawings from Berlin including some of a small comics festival.

Speaking of Starzecki, here are my photos of the Kochalka Puppet Theatre performance at Caption. I'm now considering a career in war photography.

Richard Starzecki, of Kochalka Puppet Theatre fame, has posted photos from Caption on his his Lomography site.

Slim Palmer does a cartoon called The Surreal World of Albert and writes to say am illustrated short story based on the cartoon has been published as a Print On Demand book. There's a PDF preview and you can order it here.

Cavan Scott writes to plug Lucky Day, his webcomic on Webcomicnation, "a story of horror, chat-room stalkers and dark alleys".

Go read a complete scan of Air Pirates, the classic US undeground parody comic which Disney sued for something like a million dollars because Mickey and Minnie get it on. (via)