Marking the launch of Marvel’s Iron Man 3 movie, which opened in the UK last week in advance of the US release and has broken box office records (taking £11.4 million in its opening weekend), game maker Gazillion Entertainment will… Read More ›
Month: April 2013
Radio interviews with Tim Pilcher, Graham Rawle and Paul Magrs
Book List: Celebrating Ephemera Starting a new series of the bimonthly show on books, Alex Fitch talks to three authors whose work celebrates ephemera and pop culture detritus. ‘Graphic Novelist’ Graham Rawle discusses his latest novel The Card, which follows… Read More ›
Comic Creator Interview: David Hine on adapting “The Man Who Laughs”
David Hine has had an illustrious career in comics, both as artist and writer, working on a diverse range of comics since his debut in the 1980s on titles such as Crisis. He’s currently finishing the first arc of Storm… Read More ›
Duncan Fegredo back on Hellboy – Midnight Circus launches in October
Following up on a collaboration which spanned multiple series, leading up to Mike Mignola’s return to both writing and drawing his beloved demon, British artist Duncan Fegredo will return to tell a story about a young Hellboy’s first brush with… Read More ›
Mars Attacks Judge Dredd!
Step on up and place your bets! An army of angry green men bent on galactic conquest have landed in Mega-City One, but they didn’t count on the grizzled lawmaking legend of Judge Dredd standing in their way. The skeptics… Read More ›
Radio interviews with Jenny Linn-Cole and Jon Turner
Panel Borders: Shallowater, Your days are numbered Concluding a month of shows looking at small press and independent comics, we have a pair of interviews recorded in venues where such titles are stocked. Alex Fitch talks to Jenny-Linn Cole (in… Read More ›
Ian Gibson at Gosh London today
The artist behind one of 2000AD’s most ground-breaking series will be signing at Gosh Comics today Ian Gibson’s work with Alan Moore on The Ballad of Halo Jones is lauded as some of the legendary weekly comic book’s greatest. And… Read More ›
Convict Commandos back in action!
Here’s the lowdown on the latest Commandos, on sale now in all good newsagents and on an increasing number of digital hoojimaflips! Good to see the Convict Commandos back, and that one of this round’s reprint titles features art by… Read More ›
British team create ‘Eden’ for Dark Horse Presents
Creators Jim Alexander, John Higgins (assisted on colours by Sally Jane Hurst) and Jim Campbell have a short story, “Eden”, in the latest issue of Dark Horse Presents (#23), on sale now in all good comic shops. Jim Alexander’s publishing debut… Read More ›
Beano and BeanoMax go Prank Mad…
(via Lew Stringer): British comics have often featured activity pages amongst the strips, from the humble reader’s jokes page, ‘How to’ features on magic tricks, and puzzle pages such as Teaser Time. The latest thing appears to be the pranks… Read More ›