The Comic Industry Directory – Edinburgh, Publisher www.comicscene.org Online Store – includes POD hardback and deluxe hardbacks comicsceneuk@gmail.com The Comic Industry Directory was set up in 2025 for the comic community to come together and list their details on an annual basis for each other. Comic publishers looking for creators, comic shops and comic cons looking for guests and cosplayers, comic fans looking for commissions, community groups such as school libraries looking for people to run workshops, do talks or run exhibits, creators looking for printers and distributors and comic m ..read more

The Comic Industry Directory 2025 is live on kickstarter here. Be part of this exciting project, if a professional, indie creator or comic fan anywhere in UK and the world! There is space too for publishers, printers, distributors, comic shops, auctioneers, bookshops, libraries and schools with graphic novel sections, comiccons, comic exhibits, comic media, comic academics, comic groups, cosplayers and comic services. You will also be able to post direct onto this website and share your stories, work and even digital comics. We will guide you through that when the time comes. Plus pledge this ..read more

We have a new kickstarter beginning on Saturday 4th May – the Comic Industry Directory 2025.  Join the pre launch page here See more details on our latest newsletter here As part of that you can add on the new ComicScene Special Edition which is 100 pages of all the best bits of the last two issues of ComicScene.  It’s a great read for the summer.  If you can’t wait you can get a copy at our Shift Store now.  This has all our back issues of all available ComicScene publications here along with other great indie comics from other creators too! In the shop you ..read more

With running our recent kickstarter we missed out on quite a bit of news – so here is a catch up. How Comics Are Becoming More Accessible in Creative Review Bryan Talbot Comics Legend on the BBC Children and young people’s engagement with comics in 2023 from the National Literacy Trust Heartwarming comics break down complex parenting issues The Faber / Observer / Comica Graphic Short Story Competition for 2024 Self Esteem and the End of the World by Luke Healy in the Guardian Graphic Book Writer Paul Bristow in the Greenock Telegraph Puffin new graphic novel imprint in the Bookseller Get your ..read more

Are you involved with comics in any capacity? Are you a person who loves comics? Then join the pre launch page of the Comic Industry Directory on Kickstarter here. It’s not just a Directory ..read more

Many of us make comics for fun. The same is true of writing books. Academics write for prestige – they hardly get an advance and royalties are woeful. Writers of novels tend to have (more than average paid) jobs. Publishers rely on superstar names, autobiographies and when lightning strikes the odd sensation to pay for everything else. Well known novelists tend to have one successful character or a handful of books during a lifetime. To be in the Sunday Times Best Selling List you can sell only 400 books to be in the Top 20! Recently the Comics Cultural Impact Collective produced a report whi ..read more

Over 400% funded and 24 hours to go.  Thank you. The Tara Togs zine now has 24 pages and if we reach £10,000+ by 8pm on 18th April we will increase it to 32 pages!  Please share the kickstarter for the 72 page ‘Silence of Unicorns’ to friends, family, social media.  It all helps! http://kck.st/49MwIw4 There are some sketch pages and original art from Stref still available and you can add on books to give as a gift or donate to a library. When our kickstarter ends we will let you know what happens next and other kickstarters to support ..read more

Tara Togs The Silence of Unicorns – only 3 days to go 316 backers – thank you. £7781 raised – get your copy here Scottish teen orphan Tara Togs dreams of being a photojournalist like her father. Her passion for chasing a story puts her at the heart of a dangerous adventure as she finds herself entangled with life threatening underworld criminals, mythical creatures and Private Eye ‘Heggy’ in a race to uncover one of the greatest art mysteries of all time! Everyone backing this 72 page all ages graphic novel will be put in a draw to win the signed printers proof copy of Tara Togs shown ab ..read more

“Herge’s Adventures of Tintin” must be one of the earliest phrases coming out of my TV set as a child. Visits to the local library were never a chore when you discovered there was Tintin and Asterix comics. But who was Herge? And who is Tintin, the character that inspired the 68 page all ages graphic novel ‘Tara Togs – The Silence of Unicorns.’ Let’s find out… The Adventures of Tintin is a series of 24 graphic novels created by Georges Remi, know as Herge. Born in 1907 his creation has sold over 280 million books in over 70 countries. Tintin was created in 1929. Tintin was first published in ..read more

Tara Togs has 7 days to go – here are 7 Tara Togs facts! Pledge here 1 Writer/Artist Stref’s real name is Stephen White and his first boss was Irvine Welsh of ‘Trainspotting’ fame! 2 The first Tintin book he ever read was ‘The Secret Of The Unicorn’, which was the basis for the recent film. 3 Stref always wanted to draw a Tintin story but when Herge died in 1983 no new stories were to be produced. However you are allowed to do books in the style of Herge – so Scottish writer/artist created a Scottish female lead and based his character in Scotland. 4 Tintin came to Scotland in the Black Islan ..read more