February sees the release of a new comic based on the successful Halloween movie franchise. The comic will be called Halloween: Nightdance. The first Halloween movie, directed by John Carpenter, was released in 1978 and the ninth movie, a remake… Read More ›
Month: December 2007
Alan Grant Speaks
Judge Dredd writer Alan Grant will be presenting a lecture called Writing Tomorrow Yesterday: How Fiction Became Reality in Edinburgh on 29th January as part of the Edinburgh Lectures. Alan Grant first entered the comics industry in 1967 when he… Read More ›
Berg to remake Dune
MTV reports that The Kingdom director Peter Berg is set to direct a new big-screen version of Frank Herbert’s sci-fi novel Dune. Berg said that the film would have been his next project, but the US writers’ strike is preventing… Read More ›
Lost Girls reach the UK
Warning: Potential readers are warned of the “adult nature” of this book before following any links below. Lost Girls, Alan Moore and Melinda Gebbie’s controversial take on the adult lives of Alice (from Alice in Wonderland), Wendy (from Peter Pan)… Read More ›
Fontsy That…
The lettering style of Lancashire’s finest comic book artist and graphic novelist Bryan Talbot is finally at your beck and call thanks to the good graces of those awfully nice chaps at Comicraft, the US fonts company run by former… Read More ›
Who ratings triumph
With the BBC dominating the ratings on Christmas Day, Doctor Who managed its best ratings since 1979 with the festive episode Voyage of the Damned, no doubt helped by the guest appearance of actress-singer Kylie Minogue, playing waitress Astrid on-board… Read More ›
The New 12 Days of Christmas…
Beano artist and writer Kev F. Sutherland penned the following sketch from the Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre, recorded live at the Canal Cafe Theatre, London. Warning: some swearing…
Happy Christmas from the Really Heavy Greatcoat
This Really Heavy Greatcoat strip pays tribute to Bob Dylan’s classic “Subterranean Homesick Blues” – script and art by Nick Miller
(W)HO! (W)HO! (W)HO! It’s Christmas!
The Down The Tubes crack reporting team debate potential plotlines for the Doctor Who Christmas special. Last year I sat on (not behind) a sofa on Christmas Day and watched the Doctor Who special with my five year old nephew…. Read More ›
Merrie Chrissmusz
Charley’s War back page pin-up from Battle dated 27 December 1986. Today, as in 1916, British soldiers are fighting in foreign lands. We wish them a Merry Christmas and a safe return to their families in 2008.