The top comics and specialist store Forbidden Planet London is offering horror fans an exclusive opportunity to win your own gruesome demise in John Meaney’s (Thomas Blackthorne’s) next Angry Robot title – or to get your hands on a gorgeous… Read More ›
Month: January 2010
Accent’s "Fastest Man" one shot goes on sale
Accent UK‘s latest one shot, Whatever Happened To The World’s Fastest Man?, which has picked up glowing reviews from all who read review copies, is now available in all those UK comic stores which ordered it. Co-written and created by… Read More ›
Thunderbirds Aren’t Go: Sylvia Anderson cancels nationwide tour
Fans of Gerry Anderson’s 1960s cult puppet show Thunderbirds are downhearted that Lady Penelope, aka Sylvia Anderson, has pulled out of a nationwide tour – citing lack of interest. Sylvia, now in her 80s, was to have been in conversation… Read More ›
Comics @ Glasgow Film Festival
It is a sign of the times in Mark Millar’s career that he has moved from talking to a professional librarian audience in 2008 to the Edinburgh International Book Festival audience in 2009 while in 2010 he will be talking… Read More ›
ICA threatened with closure?
London’s Institute of Contemporary Arts, recently the hub for many brilliant and much-praised ComICA events, could close later this year due to funding cuts. The Guardian reports the ICA, founded in 1947, could fall victim to recession with costs needing… Read More ›
Doctor Who-inspired Star Tigers returns as animated fan project
Altered Vistas, an amateur production company dedicated to creating Doctor Who-related features from the “fringes” of the franchise, has just released its twenty-first animated CGI release – the first chapter of an all-new Star Tigers adventure, plucked from the pages… Read More ›
Commando celebrates Ian Kennedy anniversary
The latest batch of issues of DC Thomson’s long-runing war picture library title Commando includes the first two of four re-issues of classic Ian Kennedy illustrations for the comic. Number 4261 was the first cover he executed and 4262 was… Read More ›
Bart Simpson tops UK readers poll
In a recent poll to mark the twentieth anniversary of The Simpsons, Bart Simpson has been named the nation’s favourite Simpsons character by the official Simpsons Comics, published in the UK by Titan Magazines and the company’s top-selling title. Simpson’s… Read More ›
TV21 Turns 45…
— or at least it would have done, had it had the longevity of The Beano! We have Lew Stringer to thank for pointing out that 45 years ago, City Magazines launched the first issue of TV Century 21 –… Read More ›
Foundry supports Haiti relief effort, comic creators wanted
London’s The Foundry is running an evening to raise money for earthquake victims in Haiti on 27th January – and comic creators are invited to get involved. The event is just part of a joint fund raising campaign by the… Read More ›