Glister and the Faerie Hostby Andi WatsonPublished by Walker BooksOut: Now The Book: It’s coming up to Halloween and already Glister’s father is bustling around getting ready for Christmas! The Butterworths are putting up decorations for the tree and making… Read More ›
Month: January 2010
Comic Creators Ally against Human Trafficking
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”– Margaret Mead Monday, 11th January is National Human Trafficking Awareness Day in the US. To participate, a… Read More ›
Strip! – Philosophers, Gods and Monsters
In the first of this month’s shows from the Strip! podcast team on ResonanceFM and online about the portrayal of masculinity in American comic books, Alex Fitch talks to writer Fred Van Lente about penning the adventures of undead superheroes… Read More ›
Comics for Windows Wanted
Mantle Arts, a small UK based arts organisation, is running an interesting project to brighten up a town centre – and is looking for comics artists to get involved. The project is employing artists to create artwork for empty shop… Read More ›
Fallen Angel Slips from Murky Depths!
Fans of Luke Cooper’s The Dark Gospel series, which appears in the speculative fiction quarterly Murky Depths, who can’t get enough of the cigarette-smoking, alcohol-swigging angel, Halo Slipping, will be please to know that The House Of Murky Depths (Murky… Read More ›
Future to launch Comic Heroes magazine in March
Bolstered by the sales success of an SFX comics special last year, UK publishers Future have announced a March launch for Comic Heroes, a premium-priced quarterly magazine title that promises to take an in-depth look at the latest superhero movies,… Read More ›
Crikey! regroups after Borders collapse
The editor of British comics magazine Crikey! has revealed the recent collapse of Borders UK has proved a bit of a catastrophe for the magazine, as the loss of that chain and its affiliates took away about 70% of its… Read More ›
Tube Surfing: Marvel, Disney, Stan Lee and possible iTablet launch
• Marvel Entertainment stockholders approved the company’s merger with Disney at a special meeting held last Thursday (31st December). Under the agreement, valued at an estimated $4.3 billion, Marvel becomes a wholly-owned subsidiary of Disney. Whether this will ultimately have… Read More ›
Don’t Get Lost webcomic blog launched
Andrew Luke has launched his strip blog, Don’t Get Lost, which he describes as a 300-page tale of abuse and survival through the self and friendship. The tale begins as a man flees from potential violence at the hand of… Read More ›
Félicitations – Anthea Bell OBE
Our belated congratulations to Anthea Bell for receiving her Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the New Year Honours list for “services to Literature and Literary Translations.” Anthea is best known to us for the English language… Read More ›