Stripped Down To The Basics Strip! is a fondly remembered Marvel UK comics anthology from 1990. While it may have been a short-lived title it still has its place in British comic book history. With th...

Back To School? Chris McAuley is a great friend of Tripwire for numerous reasons. He recently reached out to our contributing writer Paul N Neal because he said he had had some exciting news to share....

On Fire Any 2000AD or Judge Dredd fan should be familiar with Colin MacNeil’s incredible art. On Social media the gentleman often shares his sketches with the tagline “From the Fireside.”With these fa...

Nexus Points Of View Some weeks ago, Tripwire’s contributing writer Paul Neal completed Part One of his article that asked a series of comic book professionals “What makes a Good Comic Book Editor?” A...

The Buried Treasure Behind The Home Page Very few in the UK can have failed to notice the launch of the new streaming service HBO Max. Whilst this service has been available in America and other count...

Keeping It All Together In the past Tripwire’s contributing writer Paul N Neal has delved into the details of how comics are made. He has asked about how to approach icons such as Judge Dredd, Batman,...

Painting His Own Creative Path Tripwire’s contributing writer recently spoke to comic artist David Mack about his plans for 2026. TRIPWIRE: You recently shared online an image of a new cover you paint...

A Project Which May Never See The Light Of Day In recent weeks, artist P Craig Russell has been sharing some beautiful art on his social media. It all connects back to a story called Only The End of T...

Trying To Break The Mould Toxic! was an anarchic weekly British comic that ran for 31 issues between March to October 1991, that was published by Apocalypse Ltd. This means that as of March 2026, it w...

Reinterpreting The Classic Tales For The Four-color Medium Tripwire’s contributing writer Paul N Neal endeavours to keep an eye out for exciting developments in the UK Comic Industry. One of the more ...

Talking to a Record-Breaking Comic Fan Tripwire’s contributing writer Paul Neal recently had the opportunity to speak to Bob Bretall about his incredible comic collection… TRIPWIRE: Bob, am I correct ...

What Makes A Great Comic Book Cover For One Of Modern UK Comics’ Best Artists? During 2025 Tripwire’s contributing writer Paul Neal has presented a trilogy of articles that asked a variety of comic cr...

Beckoning The Reader In Tripwire’s contributing writer Paul N Neal welcomes you to Part Three of his series of articles that simply asks ten talented comic book professionals at a time about what makes a genuinely effective and eye-catching comic book cover. Here is the question everyone involved was asked: “As a comic book professional, […]

A Life Shaped By The Four-Color World Over a number of weeks Tripwire’s contributing Writer Paul N Neal recently had the wonderful opportunity to talk to comics veteran and legendary Superman editor M...

The Shop Window To A Comic As promised after of a well-received part one, Tripwire’s contributing writer Paul Neal continues to ask ten more of our friends in the comic industry a deceivingly simple q...

Just What’s A Great Comic Cover? Tripwire’s contributing writer Paul N Neal recently asked a handful of our friends from within the comic industry a deceiving straightforward question? He hoped to fin...

Looking At A Modern Film Fashion Tripwire’s contributing writer Paul N Neal has written for Tripwire in the past when he thinks he has noticed a trend in television or cinema… Paul argues that the suc...

The Greatest Comics Toy Tieup That Never Was Tripwire’s contributing writer Paul N Neal spends much of his time looking at the Kickstarter comic market. He thought Morphodroids looked interesting and ...

Talking To A British Comics Original Tripwire’s contributing writer Paul N Neal just interviewed legendary UK comic artist Glenn Fabry to talk about his health and what he is up in terms of work and h...

Talking To A British Comics Original Tripwire’s contributing writer Paul N Neal just interviewed legendary UK comic artist Glenn Fabry to talk about his health and what he is up in terms of work and h...

Time To Call In The Nuclear Option Tripwire’s contributing writer Paul N Neal thinks he has spotted an annoying trend in modern movie making. This is where in action or superhero movies the military f...

The Master Of Modern Cinema’s Key Scenes With Spielberg’s Jaws hitting its fiftieth birthday this year, our contributing writer Paul N Neal decided to put together his own top ten of the legendary dir...

A Tasty Treat After the success of the first Longpig miniseries the creative team recently announced the launch of a new original horror/western tale from the dark history of Longpig. A stand-alone ho...

Portraying DC’s Man of Steel A month ago, Tripwire published an article that asked a number of wonderful artists how they approached illustrating Superman. It asked them within approximately 200-300 w...

Enter The Gardens Of Paranoia Chris Weston is longtime friend of Tripwire, and with a new trade paperback edition of his latest work Paranoid Gardens, written by Gerard Way with Shaun Simon, now avail...

Enter The Gardens Of Paranoia Chris Weston is longtime friend of Tripwire, and with a new trade paperback edition of his latest work Paranoid Gardens, written by Gerard Way with Shaun Simon, now avail...

An Auspicious Start Given Grant Morrison’s apparent retirement from mainstream comics, in the third of a new series of retrospective interviews, Tripwire’s contributing writer Paul N Neal recently too...

Cleaning Up The City Legendary Judge Dredd writer John Wagner and talented artist Dan Cornwell recently took some time to talk to Tripwire’s contributing writer Paul N Neal about the collected edition...

A Love Letter To The Prog Zarjaz editor Andrew J Lewis recently reached out to Tripwire to discuss Volume 3 of 2000AD’s long running anthology fanzine. In an effort to discover more our contributing w...

Lacking A Real Spark Tripwire’s contributing writer Paul N Neal tries to understand Netflix’s $320m gamble, The Electric State, available to watch now… Directors: Anthony Russo, Joe Russo Stars: Chris...

The Hunt Is On Again While online Tripwire’s contributing writer Paul N Neal recently spotted an exciting Kickstarter for a new comic called The Hunter. He was so impressed by the project’s distinctiv...

Answers From A Hard-Working Writer For several years the prolific writer of numerous Batman and Punisher titles (and many other comics) has turned his hand to writing a series of well received novels....

Making His Mark Tripwire’s contributing writer Paul N Neal just talked to Australian comic artist and film storyboard artist Mark Sexton about a career that encompasses comics and film… TRIPWIRE: Mark...

Welcome To The Flipside Recently a handful of comic industry fan favourites, including Tripwire’s friend Liam Sharp, have vouched on social media for the merits of a new online endeavour called Flipsi...

Where to start? I guess we should start with the title. Does Grayham's latest book actually involve a big hairy ape that swallows Planet Earth? Or could the title be a less than subtle metaphor of som...

Animal Magnetism Given Grant Morrison’s apparent retirement from mainstream comics, in the first of a new series of retrospective interviews, Tripwire’s contributing writer Paul Neal recently took the...

America’s Largest Comic Collection Displayed In The Library of Congress In Washington DC

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When Comics Almost Came To An End Tripwire’s contributing writer Paul N Neal takes a look at a very dark time in comics history: back to the 1950s… When compiling a list of important dates in the hist...