Summer fun with Eagle Times (Volume 24, Number Two)

By John Freeman on July 4, 2011

Eagle Times (Volume 24, Number Two - Cover

The Summer 2011 edition of Eagle Times is available now and features articles by downthetubes contributors Jeremy Briggs and Richard Sheaf.

Here’s the line up:

Frank and the Newspaper Cuttings: a look at the use by Frank Hampson, throughout his career, of images of newspapers and newspaper cuttings, as a powerful visual aid to storytelling
‘Daan Durf – Piloot van de Toekomst’: Richard Sheaf delivers background on the 1980s Dutch reprint editions of the ‘Dan Dare’ adventures: De Mans Van Nergens (The Man From Nowhere) and De Woeste Planeet (Rogue Planet)
Keith Watson – Drawing from Life: the use of live and photographed figures to achieve realism of the clothed human form
Frank Bellamy’s Pictorial Journalism: a look at some of Bellamy’s illustrative work for newspapers, magazines and posters
Dan Goes Back to College: a report on the unveiling of the bronze bust of Dan Dare at the Southport College of Art, following its recent restoration
Rivals of Jeff Arnold – Buffalo Bill: part 7 of an ongoing series looking at the real and fictional Wild Western characters that appeared in British comics in the 1950s
Eagle’s Wanderers: an examination of two fictional football strips that appeared in Eagle. Part 1: ‘Home of the Wanderers’
Kemlo – the ‘Spaceworld’ books of E.C. Eliott: the life and work of Robert Martin, a prolific children’s writer of the 1950s-1960s (who wrote the ‘Joey’ series under his own name, the ‘Kemlo’ and ‘Tas’ series as E.C. Elliott and the ‘Pocomoto’ western series as Rex Dixon), taking a close look at three of the ‘Kemlo’ series
PC49 in the Case of the Crying Clown – part 2: concluding another adaptation of one of Alan Strank’s famous BBC radio police adventures
The David Pugh ‘Dan Dare’, part two: continuing an examination of the ‘Dan Dare’ stories drawn by one of the artists who took on the resurrected “original” Dan Dare in “new” Eagle 1989-1994
Sammy, Swift‘s Space Fleet Cadet: Stripography – part 2, concluding Jeremy Briggs summary of the Space Fleet stories that appeared in Eagle‘s companion paper
‘The Final Frontier’: an extract from Arnie Wilson’s Big Name Hunting, in which he relates an interview with Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin

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John Freeman

The founder of downthetubes, which he established in 1998. John works as a comics and magazine editor, writer, and on promotional work for the Lakes International Comic Art Festival. He is currently editor of Star Trek Explorer, published by Titan – his third tour of duty on the title originally titled Star Trek Magazine.

Working in British comics publishing since the 1980s, his credits include editor of titles such as Doctor Who Magazine, Babylon 5 Magazine, and more. He also edited the comics anthology STRIP Magazine and edited several audio comics for ROK Comics. He has also edited several comic collections, including volumes of “Charley’s War” and “Dan Dare”.

He’s the writer of “Pilgrim: Secrets and Lies” for B7 Comics; “Crucible”, a creator-owned project with 2000AD artist Smuzz; and “Death Duty” and “Skow Dogs” with Dave Hailwood.