In 2010, the Leeds-based comic festival Thought Bubble launched its very own national award with the support of Arts Council funding – and the second Northern Sequential Arts Competition has just been announced. The Northern Sequential Arts Competition is a… Read More ›
Month: August 2011
Thought Bubble official hotel announced, event plans promise snapshot of UK comic industry
The Leed-based comics festival Thought Bubble has just made a number of announcements – includinga remindert that this major comics event has been expanded over a week with a massive two day comic con. “Since our biggest and most successful… Read More ›
In Review: XIII – The Night Of August Third
Who is XIII? Book 1 – Mr Alan Smith?Book 2 – Captain Steve Rowland?Book 3 – Prisoner Steve Rowland?Book 4 – Corporal Ross Tanner?Book 5 – Agent Jason Fly?Book 6 – Writer John Fleming? The seventh book in the XIII… Read More ›
Beano’s Derek The Sheep On Stage
While there have been a good few British comics characters that have made it onto the cinema and television screen, from the infamous Sylvester Stallone Judge Dredd to the delightfully unique BBC TV version of Jane, there have been very… Read More ›
Tim Booth conquers pages of latest Spaceship Away
Artist Tim Booth has pretty much taken over the latest issue of Dan Dare and Eagle-inspired comic magazine Spaceship Away, delivering not just art and story on most of its strips but colouring on a new Garth reprint, too. We’re… Read More ›
US comics publisher Bluewater offers school lessons
Here’s an interesting item from across the pond that might well be of interest to readers and publishers involved in comic workshops and comic art lessons here in the UK, or whose range might appeal directly to English teachers (such… Read More ›
Panel Borders delivers PJ Holden, Al Davison
This week’s edition of the radio show Panel Borders starts a month of shows about comic book shops with have three interviews recorded at Oxford’s small press comics convention ‘Caption’. Alex Fitch talks to Doctor Who comic illustrator Al Davison,… Read More ›
Vatican hitman, Japanese warriors and more in Paragon 8
Issue 8 of the indie comic anthology Paragon is just out featuring a complete 15 page adventure starring the time-travelling demon-hunting Japanese warrior Jikan, ending the current story arc written by The Legendary Shark and drawn by Davey Candlish. Also… Read More ›
Planet Replicas launch Dredd costumes – ideal for vigilantes?
Prepare to dispense justice like Judge Dredd and Judge Anderson – officially licensed Judge replica costumes from Planet Replicas are coming. (We can just see these being snapped up by those ‘real life superheroes’ the media loves reporting on at… Read More ›
Scratch that fanzine urge!
British and Irish comics fan Steve Green is to finally launch his long-planned online zine Scratch, early next year – and is on the look out for contributors. First mooted in 2008 but delayed by ‘real life’, Steve says the… Read More ›