Review by Jeremy Briggs After last year’s uninspiring Eagle Annual: The Best Of The 1950s Comic, its sequel Best of the 1960s Comic has been put on hold to 2009 and this year’s offering from Orion is the unwieldily entitled… Read More ›
Month: September 2008
Classics Illustrated Returns to UK
Classics Illustrated, comic adaptations of classic novels, are back in publication in the UK for the first time since 1970. The Classic Comic Store re-launched the Classics Illustrated series this week. Not to be confused with British publisher Classcial Comics‘… Read More ›
Creating Manga in Barrow
Want to draw some manga? For 2008, the British National Year of Reading, Kate from IndieManga will be running a workshop on the basics of character design, scripting, panelling and pencilling your own doujinshi (that’s Japanese for a self-publication). The… Read More ›
Holden and Ewing’s Eye Candy Project Now on Sale
Paul Holden and Al Ewing’s Eye Candy comic – the world’s first comic for kids for the iphone (mentioned earlier this week) – is now on sale from the Apple Store. The first issue of the digital comic features the… Read More ›
Reppion and Moore in Manchester
This coming Saturday (27th September) Leah Moore & John Reppion will be appearing at the Golden Orbit sci-fi, comic and card fair in Manchester. The fair is being held at the Sachas Hotel on Tib Street , Piccadilly, Manchester M4… Read More ›
Virgin turned to Liquid
Geoff Boucher of the Los Angeles Times reports that Virgin Comics, publishers of the new Dan Dare, are definitely no more, and that visitors to the Virgin web site are now directed to Liquid Comics. The good news appears to… Read More ›
CancerTown Graphic Novel Update
Nic Wilkinson has just been in touch with an update on the Cancertown graphic novel we previously featured on downthetubes. Scheduled for release by Insomnia Publications at the end of the year, this original graphic novel is the work of… Read More ›
Declan Shalvey Interviewed
Over on the Forbidden Planet blog, Joe Gordon has just posted a fascinating interview with artist Declan Shalvey, who has carved a good name for himself on titles such as Andy Winter’s Hero Killers which went on to win an… Read More ›
Doctor Who Behind the Scenes Contest Launched
(Via the BBC): Fans of Doctor Who, Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures are being offered a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to go behind the scenes at the studios where the shows are filmed. On Saturday and Sunday, 8 and 9 November,… Read More ›
New Wasteland On Sale
Wasteland #20, the latest issue of the monthly comic book series published by Oni Press is on sale this week, written by Antony Johnston and drawn by Christopher Mitten, with covers by Ben Templesmith. Wasteland takes place one hundred years… Read More ›