The latest issue of Panini UK’s Doctor Who Magazine (Issue 421) sees the debut of the Eleventh Doctor in its comic strip pages, with the delectable Amy Pond in tow to boot. While Matt Smith’s Doctor has already appeared in… Read More ›
Month: April 2010
Dan Dare at 60: Merchandise Update
With the Eagle and its best-remembered character Dan Dare celebrating a 60th birthday this month, fans will be pleased to hear that several items are either in development or already on sale now to mark the event. • The collectable… Read More ›
downthetubes John Freeman at Sci-Fi-London
A quick reminder of two panels I’ll be appearing on tomorrow (Saturday 1st May) at Sci-Fi-London… 60 Years of Dan Dare A panel on 60 years of the lantern jawed space pilot. Alex Fitch will be talking to: Garry Leach,… Read More ›
ConceptArt launches Female Form Course
This coming Sunday, ace illustrators web site ConceptArt.Org, who kindly helped promote my original appeal for artists for SciFi Art Now, will begin a new round of live streaming classes with a very beautiful program on the art of the… Read More ›
Paper Science II launch
(With thanks to Alex Fitch): As part of Free Comics Day on Saturday 1st May, We are Words + Pictures will be launching their new, free newspaper format comic Paper Science II at Orbital Comics, 8 Great Newport Street, London… Read More ›
Losers on My Radio!
Concluding their month long look at the crossover between comics and film, Resonance FM broadcasts Strip! – The Art of The Losers this evening. Alex Fitch interviews Jock, the main illustrator of The Losers by Andy Diggle, the 32 issue… Read More ›
Inker Appeal from Ex Astris comic creator
Bill Storie – my colleague and co-creator of the Ex Astris science fiction strip we’re producing – has too much work on his plate at the moment and he’s looking for a reliable UK-based inker to work with him. “There just… Read More ›
IlluXcon Artists Line Up gathers pace
The third annual IlluXCon symposium whose guests include SciFi Art Now contributors Bob Eggleton and Patrick Jones, will take place in Altoona, Pennsylvania in the United States on November 11-14, 2010. As the only convention exclusively dedicated to fantastic art,… Read More ›
Destinauts arrives online
Comic creator Ian Hewett, who’s also behind the mediablog Dystopian Fuschia, has just launched a free web comic, Destinauts. The comics opens with a mysterious object falling to Earth, crashing in the small town of Calendering… Five years later, and… Read More ›
More Screaming Artists Wanted!
Back from the Depths, a group of horror comic fans inspired by the fondly-remembered but short-lived British title Scream! needs your blood… Creative blood, that is: the group is looking for artists and contributors for the new Back from the… Read More ›