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Updated: 17/5/09
• Bristol
Comics Festival 2009 Report
First published 16/5/09: Even if you weren't there, you've
probably heard by now that due to the knock on effects of the global credit
crunchie this year's Bristol Comics Expo was a slightly reduced affair. This
might seem a shame, especially given that this was the event's tenth birthday,
but David Bailie reveals smaller is sometimes better...
• A Cold Day At Marvel UK: Doctor Who Comic Memories
First
published 16/5/09: Panini UK released its first collection of Doctor Who
strips featuring the Seventh Doctor, played on TV by Sylvester McCoy, in
May 2009.
Here, creators who worked on the strips featured in A
Cold Day in Hell, edited by Richard Starkings (who
was interviewed for the collection), remember their contribution to the Time
Lord's enduring comics mythos...
• This is an extended version of material provided for the collection,
including comments from Simon Furman and material cut for space reasons.
• Keith
Page: Raiding the Past and Future
First published 16/4/09:Keith Page is one
of the regular interior and cover artists on DC Thomson’s Commando as
well as writing and illustrating the Dan Dare prequel Rocket
Pilot in Spaceship
Away. Jeremy Briggs
talks to Keith about his varied career for downthetubes...
• British Comics Publishers
Updated 30/3/09: Com.X is back! Contact info added
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