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By Charles EP Murphy Comic's favourite fascist in an iconic moment. Picture courtesy GamesRadar+. He spent fifteen years in the academy –...

By Charles EP Murphy Sonic in Porto Alegre. He gets around. Picture courtesy Wikimedia Commons. Sonic the Hedgehog and Sega were cultural...

No, not that sort of panel beating. Image courtesy Wikimedia commons. In this article, I’ll be posing a few questions for some regulars...

By Gary Oswald, Mark Tentarelli, Bob Mumby and Charles EP Murphy Sea Lion Press has always had the aim of providing a platform for...

By Charles EP Murphy On the Sea Lion Press Forums, we run a monthly Vignette Challenge. Contributors are invited to write short stories...

Questions from Gary Oswald This Interview is with Charles EP Murphy, a regular SLP writer who can be found on twitter. Hello and thanks...

By Charles EP Murphy On the Sea Lion Press Forums, we run a monthly Vignette Challenge. Contributors are invited to write short stories...

By Charles EP Murphy On the Sea Lion Press Forums, we run a monthly Vignette Challenge. Contributors are invited to write short stories...

By Charles E.P. Murphy Duncan Brack and Iain Dale’s recurring collections of That Never Happened articles are some of the more...

By Charles E.P. Murphy Over a period of years, quietly, Ireland is conquered. A highly coordinated buyout of financial assets is combined...

By Charles EP Murphy By the time of 1997's Power Rangers Turbo, the show had been running for almost four years. Ratings were on the way...

By Charles EP Murphy The first page, art by Mario Capaldi; art from Rebellion trade reprint Spanning 101 issues in the late 1970s, Misty is one of the most fondly remembered girls’ comics of its time, blending the contemporary model of social consciousness and gleeful brutality with gothic dread. And one of its early strips, The Sentinels by Malcolm Shaw and Mario Capaldi, was an alternate history story set in that old standby, The Nazis Won. The eponymous Sentinels are two v

By Charles EP Murphy Superhero comics are infamous for the unchanging status quos and parts of the canon that are absolute. That means...

By Charles EP Murphy Probably the biggest character in Power Rangers history is Tommy Oliver, as played by Jason David Frank. He’s famous...

By Charles EP Murphy The initial plot of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers is summed up in the title sequence. The space witch Rita Repulsa is...

By Charles EP Murphy Power Rangers is a franchise that has lasted for almost thirty years: a team of youths transforming into...

By Charles EP Murphy On the Sea Lion Press Forums, we run a monthly Vignette Challenge. Contributors are invited to write short stories...

By Charles EP Murphy As we’ve seen, the fate of comics – who makes them, what shape they take, where they sell – is subject to random...

By Charles EP Murphy On the Sea Lion Press Forums, we run a monthly Vignette Challenge. Contributors are invited to write short stories...

By Charles EP Murphy Art by Shirley Bellwood, and also modelled after her In our discussion on girls’ comics – indeed, in anyone’s discussion of British girls’ comics – the gothic horror comic Misty came up. It lasted 101 issues, little under two years, with a few specials and annuals after, but its name still carries enough weight that Rebellion has resurrected it for yearly Halloween comics. It was one of the first titles to get reprints by Treasury of British Comics. It’s