The mag goes on sale on Thursday 20th December.
Independently published, Comic Scene focuses mainly on British comics past and present, although it includes American comics too, and recently began to include features on films, presumably to broaden its appeal.
The magazine still has a few rough edges that need dealing with (eg: sometimes attributing art to the wrong person, or its frequent mis-spelling of "D.C. Thompson"), and its design is inconsistent, so I don't know how it'll fare when displayed alongside SFX, Empire, Sci-Fi Now, etc, but as it's the only magazine out there championing British comics it deserves our support. Previously, Future's Comic Heroes couldn't even survive as a quarterly in newsagents, so I'm concerned that a monthly comics magazine might suffer too, but let's hope not!
The best way to obtain copies of course is still by subscription, and you can order it directly from the publisher at their website:
https://comicscene.tictail.com
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There's also a Comic Scene Annual being published any day now. This gigantic 320 page, perfect bound volume is all-comics, compiled of small-press and indie strips. An episode of my Derek the Troll strip is in there, as part of a promotion for Goof! - or at least that's what I was led to believe. Unfortunately although strips by several Goof! contributors are used, there's no mention of the web address or any background info on the comic. Sadly, this means that anyone curious to see more won't know that they need to go to https://www.goofcomic.co.uk to subscribe.
The Comic Scene Annual is very expensive too, at £20, but if you're interested you can order a copy here:
https://comicscene.tictail.com/product/great-big-comicscene-christmas-annual-2019
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