(with thanks to Matt Badham): Last year, top comic writer Warren Ellis did a thing for people who make comics called Three Panels Open. Literally, a three-panel comic. The only rules were that it had to be legible at a… Read More ›
Month: February 2012
It’s Life Jimmy, But Not As We Know It
In 2008, the National Library Of Scotland in Edinburgh put on their Local Heroes exhibition which displayed some of the library’s collection of comics and graphic novels and, impressively, Cam Kennedy’s original artwork for the Waverley graphic novel Kidnapped. This… Read More ›
Egmont’s new ‘Bin Weevils’ gets massive promotion
Egmont recently launched BinWeevils magazine, described by the publisher as the ultimate extension to the already successful online entertainment platform – and the second most visited website in the UK for children aged 7-13 and boasts a 91 per cent… Read More ›
GOSH Comics host Tom Gauld ‘Goliath’ book launch
Tom Gauld is a firm favourite at GOSH Comics in London, so they’re properly chuffed to be hosting the launch of his new graphic novel Goliath, a stripped-down, reworking of the David and Goliath myth, published by Drawn & Quarterly…. Read More ›
Renegade set to release ‘Tales of the Buddha’ collection
Renegade Arts Entertainment have announced that they will be publishing the first ever complete collection of Alan Grant, Jon Haward and Jamie Grant’s long-running humour strip Tales of The Buddha Before He Became Enlightened. Collecting the entire 66-page saga to… Read More ›
Sneek Peek: Crucible Page 1, Part 4 – Work in Progress
So here’s another Work in Progress tease – Page 1 of CRUCIBLE Part 4. Just to show you how much thought Smuzz puts into his work, here are his Work in Progress notes… “Apologies for not making the MineMouth any… Read More ›
Happy Birthday, 2000AD! From artist and fan Simon Wyatt
Name: Simon Wyatt Blog or web site: Strangely Drawn: http://simonwyatt.blogspot.com Currently working on: Alpha Gods with Ian Sharman for Orang Utan Comics, Phantom Lung & The Garden of Dead Liars with Cy Dethan and Volume 2 of my graphic novel… Read More ›
Happy Birthday, 2000AD! From art droid Mike Perkins
Name: Mike Perkins Blog or web site: www.mikeperkinsart.com and http://perkyposts.blogspot.com/ Currently working on: I’ve recently finished up illustrating Marvel’s 31-issue adaptation of Stephen King’s The Stand and am now wonderfully embroiled in an open-ended run on Astonishing X-Men, collaborating with… Read More ›
Happy Birthday, 2000AD! from artist and fan Neill Cameron
Name: Neill Cameron Web site: www.neillcameron.com Blog: neillcameron.blogspot.com Currently working on: Currently drawing The Pirates of Pangaea and writing and drawing How To Make (Awesome) Comics for fantastic new weekly kids’ comic The Phoenix! (www.thephoenixcomic.co.uk) First memory of 2000AD? My… Read More ›
In Review: Dotter of Her Father’s Eyes
Dotter of Her Father’s Eyes by Mary and Bryan Talbot Publisher: Jonathan Cape Out: Now The Book: Part personal history, part biography, Dotter of Her Father’s Eyes contrasts two coming-of-age narratives: that of Lucia, the daughter of James Joyce, and… Read More ›