This interview is the second with Ted Rall, multiple award-winning political and editorial cartoonist, journalist and broadcaster. In this interview from 2002, Ted talks with Ken Gale and Mercy Van Vlack about his experiences in Afghanistan following the events of September 11th, 2001, his falling-out with Art Spiegelman, and a variety of other topics.

Here, in Pandora’s 30th year (!), is the very first Pandora page, newly-coloured by Nigel Kitching.

The Royal Mail has chosen to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the first publication of The Dandy with a set of stamps featuring iconic comics and characters.

Swift was the fourth title to emerge from the Hulton Press stable under the auspices of the Reverend Malcolm Morris as part of his crusade to produce high quality, morally uplifting comics for children. Whilst never to gain the giddy heights achieved by Eagle, it joined secondary titles Girl and Robin, and was a publication which targeted the then-untapped audience between pre-schoolers and independent readers, completing for Hulton a slick and colourful line of publications which catered to all “good and decent” children from the cradle to adulthood.

Almost perfectly spherical!