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• In Review: Night Post by Benjamin Read and Laura Trinder

  By Jeremy Briggs on November 10, 2015

  

  Improper Book’s first hardback publication, Night Post, has been on limited release for some time now but it is just about to become available to a wider audience through Diamond. Writer Benjamin Read, of Porcelain, Butterfly Gate and the recent… Read More ›

• In Review: WesterNoir Book Five

  By Jeremy Briggs on November 9, 2015

  

  After a gap in which publisher Accent UK gave us the short story collection spin-off Tales Of WesterNoir, WesterNoir itself returns in the more than capable hands of writer Dave “Wild, Wild” West and artist Gary “Monsewer” Crutchley (as their Wanted… Read More ›

• Creator Talk: Six Questions For MULP’s Matt Gibbs and Sara Dunkerton

  By Jeremy Briggs on November 9, 2015 • ( 1 )

  

  2014 saw the release of issue one of MULP: Sceptre Of The Sun, the first of a proposed five issue series from writer Matt Gibbs and artist Sara Dunkerton. There is a long standing tradition of anthropomorphic characters in British… Read More ›

• Edinburgh League Of Comics Invades Thought Bubble 2015

  By Jeremy Briggs on November 8, 2015

  

  Various members of the Edinburgh League Of Comics will be attending and selling their work at Thought Bubble in Leeds on the weekend of 14/15 November 2015 where they will all have tables in the New Dock Hall. The group was… Read More ›

• Creators @ Lakes International Comic Art Festival 2015

  By Jeremy Briggs on October 25, 2015 • ( 1 )

  

  The remarkably warm and dry weekend of 16-18 October 2015 saw the third Lakes International Comic Art Festival take place in the Lake District town of Kendal. LICAF, or more simply Lakes, has grown in stature and visitor numbers over the… Read More ›

• Behind The Scenes: Stref’s Adaptation Of Peter Pan

  By Jeremy Briggs on October 15, 2015

  

  Earlier this year BC Books, Birlinn’s childrens imprint, released the first ‘official’ UK graphic novel of JM Barrie’s beloved book Peter Pan. The book was the work of artist Stephen White, also known as Stref, a long-time fan of Barrie’s… Read More ›

• In Review: Kenya – Aberrations

  By Jeremy Briggs on October 14, 2015

  

  Kenya – Aberrations is the third book in Cinebook’s translation of Leo (Luiz Eduardo de Oliveira) and Rodolphe’s (Rodolphe Daniel Jacquette) ongoing series of spies, extinct beasts and strange flying lights that is set in post war-Kenya. After reporting to London,… Read More ›

• Sneak Peek: MULP – Sceptre Of The Sun Issue 2

  By Jeremy Briggs on October 13, 2015

  

  It is just over a year since the first issue of writer Matt Gibbs and artist Sara Dunkerton’s MULP: Sceptre Of The Sun appeared. This full colour anthropomorphic adventure comic was a mousey take on an Indiana Jones style story as… Read More ›

• In Review: The Red Shoes And Other Tales by metaphrog

  By Jeremy Briggs on October 13, 2015 • ( 1 )

  

  Today sees the official release of metaphrog’s latest hardback, The Red Shoes And Other Tales, by American publisher Papercutz. metaphrog, writer John Chalmers and artist Sandra Marrs, have adapted Hans Christian Anderson’s The Red Shoes and The Little Match Girl,… Read More ›

• Aimee Lockwood Debuts Her First Titles At Lakes Festival 2015

  By Jeremy Briggs on October 12, 2015

  

  Edinburgh based artist/writer Aimee Lockwood will be debuting her work at the Lakes International Comic Art Festival (LICAF) this coming weekend. She works mostly in pen and ink, and in full colour where possible, and is inspired by the rugged north coast… Read More ›

• In Review: Yoko Tsuno – Message For Eternity

  By Jeremy Briggs on October 10, 2015

  

  Roger Leloup’s Japanese electrical engineer Yoko Tsuno returns in the tenth of her books to be translated into English by Cinebook, Message For Eternity. Yoko Tsuno books tend to alternate between contemporary stories and more overtly science-fiction stories and, while… Read More ›

• Dundee Comics Day @ Dundee Literary Festival

  By Jeremy Briggs on September 16, 2015

  

  Dundee Literary Festival, which takes place at the University of Dundee from 21 to 25 October, has announced its 2015 line-up of authors and events with talks by comics creators including Mike Collins, Karrie Fransman, Dave Gibbons, and Will Morris. The annual event… Read More ›

• Metaphrog Gains New Funding From Creative Scotland

  By Jeremy Briggs on September 2, 2015

  

  In these days of contracting budgets for the arts it is good to report that Glasgow based couple John Chalmers and Sandra Marrs, better known as Metaphrog, have been awarded £35,000 by Creative Scotland to research, develop, produce and promote their graphic… Read More ›

• Crowdfunding Spotlight: Metal Made Flesh 2 – Blood & Oil

  By Jeremy Briggs on August 26, 2015

  

  After a chance meeting at a convention in 2011, Simeon Aston and Jeremy Biggs began working together to create the illustrated cyberpunk novella Metal Made Flesh, a collection of three separate but interlinked stories set in a futuristic world created and illustrated… Read More ›

• In Review: JM Barrie’s Peter Pan adapted by Stref

  By Jeremy Briggs on August 22, 2015 • ( 2 )

  

  JM Barrie’s Peter Pan is one of the best known and loved British children’s novels of the last century, so it comes as something of a surprise to discover that there has never been a graphic novel based directly on… Read More ›

• New Merchandise Remembers Bunty Comic

  By Jeremy Briggs on August 16, 2015 • ( 1 )

  

  Don’t miss out on these Bunty items!

• Edinburgh International Book Festival Starts Today

  By Jeremy Briggs on August 15, 2015

  

  The Edinburgh International Book Festival, the world’s largest literary festival,  opens its gates in the Scottish capital’s Charlotte Square Gardens today and runs until 31 August with an additional ‘schools only’ day on 1 September. As in previous year’s BookFest… Read More ›

• In Review: The Troll by Martin Flink

  By Jeremy Briggs on July 23, 2015 • ( 5 )

  

  Accent UK may be better known for titles about zombies and gunslingers but the rise of more family orientated comics conventions has led them to release The Troll  by Danish artist, storyteller and co-founder of the Copenhagen Comics Festival, Martin… Read More ›

• Peter Pan: Six Questions for Stephen White On His Adaptation Of JM Barrie’s Classic

  By Jeremy Briggs on July 20, 2015 • ( 1 )

  

  Artist Stephen White, who works under the pen-name Stref, has just had his graphic novel adaptation of Peter Pan, JM Barrie’s 1904 play and 1911 novel, released by Birlinn Books. This is, remarkably, the first official graphic novel of one… Read More ›

• Peter Pan The Graphic Novel Events

  By Jeremy Briggs on July 19, 2015 • ( 2 )

  

  Edinburgh publisher Birlinn books have just released Stephen White’s new graphic novel of JM Barrie’s Peter Pan. This 96-page softcover book is based on Barrie’s original novel and play, adapted and illustrated by Stephen (also known as Stref) and coloured… Read More ›