ComicScene Culture Review Issue 1

LETTER FROM THE EDITOR

Hi everyone,

ComicScene Magazine is now on substack. We are also ‘crowdfunding’ for the ComicScene Yearbook 2027 as part of a paid subscription to the substack.

Our substack content makes up an ‘issue’ of ComicScene each month. Issue 1 is below – this is the equivalent of a 120 page magazine. You can read anywhere in the world – on your phone, tablet or desktop! We have extended the time posts can be seen for this first edition. Posts are usually only ‘free’ for a week and then go behind a paywall. If you like it, please upgrade to a paid subscription.

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Get the early bird price before 28th February

If you take out a paid subscription before 28th February you get the ‘early bird’ price. Taking a paid subscription is also the only way to get the ComicScene Yearbook 2027 in digital or print. There are three subscription options – £4 monthly, £20 for digital annually (that’s £1.66 a month) or £40 to guarantee your print copy of the ComicScene Yearbook 2027.

Get your ComicScene Yearbook 2027 plus free comic books before 28th February (free books before 7th Feb)

For £4 monthly (£5 from 1st March)

You get the ComicScene Yearbook 2027 wherever you are (if you subscribe for 5 months UK, rest of the world £10 months)
You get 3500+ pages of ComicScene digital material worth £500 until 7th Feb
Access to Comic Culture Review every month

For £20 yearly (£24 from 1st March)

In the UK you get ComicScene Yearbook in print and digital (includes P&P) and entered into a monthly draw to win £100 worth of comics
In the US and the rest of the world you get the ComicScene Yearbook in digital
You get 3500+ pages of ComicScene digital material worth £500 until 7th Feb
Access to Comic Culture Review every month

For £40 yearly (founders option)

In the UK you get ComicScene Yearbook 2026 & 2027, The Best of ComicScene 2000AD Articles, Tara Togs and the Silence of Unicorns (includes P&P) and entered in a monthly draw to win £100 worth of comics
In the US and the rest of the world you get the ComicScene Yearbook in print and digital (includes P&P). You get ComicScene Yearbook 2026 & 2027, The Best of ComicScene 2000AD Articles, Tara Togs and the Silence of Unicorns
You get 3500+ pages of ComicScene digital material worth £500 until 7th Feb
Access to Comic Culture Review every month

Kickstart the ComicScene Yearbook 2027 and Comics Culture Review by 28th Feb

Like a ‘kickstarter’ you can support ComicScene and it’s up to you if we continue into 2027, which is our tenth year. If we raise £6000 a year we continue. If we hit £12,000 a year your investment means we also publish a ComicScene Summer Special for you

Here are the numbers to watch….

Like any crowdfunder we will share our progress as we go.

We have raised £1531 / $2058 dollars / 1756 euro of £6000 (by 24/01/26)

We have 57 backers from the UK, US, Netherlands, Australia and Japan.
We have 6925 free subscribers who come from over 122 countries.
42% of free subscribers are from the US,32% from rest of the world
26% of free subscribers are from the UK.
Of those who are paid, 60% are from the UK and 40% from the rest of the world.
We need only 243 readers to upgrade to paid subscribers.
If we get up to 600 paid subscribers and £12,000 our ‘stretch goal’ is a ComicScene Summer Special

Thanks to those who have already backed ComicScene. We will give a progress report in February.

Until next month I hope you enjoy our first issue and the 25 articles below.

ComicsTony, ComicScene

ComicsTony, ComicScene

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