Regular Features
In addition to Dez Skinn's own editorial column, Comics International's main features included:
- "Talking Shop", a column about British comics retailing by Stephen Holland, owner of Page 45.
- "Its Only a Comic", a humorous column from the creator's side by Tony Lee.
- "Novel Graphics", written by Paul Gravett, dealt with graphic novels; this column originally started appearing in the comics magazine Borderline.
- "Networks", compiled by Tim Pilcher, deals with Internet comics gossip. Pilcher went on to become associate editor on the magazine.
- "Illuminations", written by Martin Averre, deals with upcoming news of future comic releases.
- "Movers & Shakers", which was the comics industry's first ever gossip and marketing column and was voted the most popular column in the magazine in a poll conducted in 1997. The column was created by former Comics International news and features editor Phil Hall.
- "Hotshots" - a top ten picks column, written by Phil Hall originally, and later by Martin Averre.
- "Frame to Frame", a look at the comics industry in film by Mike Conroy
- The World of Jack Staff (a serialised comic strip), written and drawn by Paul Grist,.
- Comic Cuts, by Mike Kazybrid, a three-panel gag strip
- Outside the Frame, by John Freeman/Nick Miller, a three-panel gag strip
In addition, there was a lengthy review section by a regular team of over twenty reviewers, a festivals calendar, and listings of U.K. comics specialty stores, mail-order companies, and the following month's U.K. & U.S. releases.
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