Horror comics for children have had an awkward time of it in the past so full marks to Cinebook being brave enough to translate the Belgian series Mort De Trouille into English for the first time. Written by Virginie Vanholme… Read More ›
Month: August 2010
Tube Surfing: Behind the Scenes, Adults Only and Travelling in Japan
A fairly short tube surf today as I’m in deadline hell… Fans of The Rainbow Orchid by Garen Ewing can get a peek behind the scenes of that comic over at the Forbidden Planet International blog as the cartoonist takes… Read More ›
Corel’s Quest for the Best Challenge
‘The Calm Before the Storm‘, SciFi Art Now contributor John Malcolm’s entry for Corel’s contest. Illustrators in North America, the UK and Germany still lhave time to both enter software maker Corel’s Quest for the Best Creativity Challenge. The challenge… Read More ›
Eagle Awards partners with MCM Expo
After two years of nomadic existence, the Eagle Awards will take up residency at London’s hugely popular MCM Expo at Excel, where the 2010 awards will be announced. As of 2011 and going forward, the awards will become part of… Read More ›
In Review: The Chimpanzee Complex – Civilisation
The Chimpanzee Complex has been something of a revelation since it began three books ago. Near future, hardcore science fiction with a mature storyline, Cinebook chose to publish the title in the full European size rather than the American size… Read More ›
Wasted 5 Out Now
The latest issue of adult humour title WASTED is now on sale. It features the usual mix of madcap strips, including 10 pages of Alan Grant and Jon Haward’s Tales of the Buddha, Kevin Eastman and Kevin O’Neill and Simon… Read More ›
Classic British strip Wulf The Briton to be collected
There’s some great news for fans of cracking British comics artist Ron Embleton with the announcement of an impending collection of his superb comicstrip, Wulf the Briton, from Book Palace Books – fronted by an introduction from Dave Gibbons. Longtime… Read More ›
Celebrity Comics Challenge!
Comic artists are being asked to design a ‘Celebrity Comic’ cover for the latest downthetubes forum art challenge. What would the news stand be like if Alan Titchmarsh produced “Titchmarsh Comics”? How would Eamon Holmes present his comics persona? (Best… Read More ›
Commando: New Issue Gen
The new batch of Commando titles commemorate V-J Day, the victory over Japan and the ending of the Second World War 65 years ago this month with stories all set in the Far East and Pacific Theatre of Operations. The… Read More ›
Tube Surfing: Cartoonists, Writers, Conventions (well, one) and the end of 2000 AD Review
• Joe Gordon of the Forbidden Planet International blog makes us aware that cartoonist and illustrator David Baillie has just uploaded a large PDF portfolio online. You should have a look! David, who has been published in 2000AD and the… Read More ›