Dan Dare continues to resonate decades after his debut in the Eagle, B7 Comics new graphic novel by Alex de Campi and Marc Laming gaining national media attention.
BBC News featured an interview with writer Alex de Campi and artist Marc Laming here. The Guardian also covered Dan Dare: First Contact recently, too, here, and The Conversation has a smashing feature by Elizabeth Stanway, Reader in Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Warwick, who’s clearly looking forward to seeing the completed adventure.
Regionally, if you tune in the the BBC’s Three Counties Radio at 8.40am on Bank Holiday Monday (streaming thereafter), you can hear Marc and B7 Comics publisher Andrew Mark Sewell talking about the project, too.
B7 Comics has also just revealed 2000AD artist Chris Weston’s stunning cover for the Dan Dare: First Contact Paperback Edition, and teased more pages by Marc from the project, coloured by Michael Woods. The publisher had already revealed the cover for the Kickstarter exclusive hardback edition by J.H. Williams III, with another, by 2000AD’s Pye Parr, also in the works.
The publisher, whose projects also include Pilgrim: Secrets and Lies by John Freeman and Neil Edwards, Hancock: The Lad Himself by Stephen Walsh and Keith Page, and a yet to be revealed project drawn by Mike Collins, is aiming to release the graphic novel later this year.
Dan Dare: First Contact the first in a trilogy of new adventures for an all-new Dan Dare and team, that aims to respectfully acknowledge the character’s original incarnation.
You haven’t, as yet, missed out on supporting this new Dan Dare project, which successfully hit its Kickstarter crowdfunding target recently. Some rewards and add-ons are still open for late pledges – so head to the campaign page here.
• You can still “Late Pledge” your support for Dan Dare: First Contact – and any existing backer who wants to add extra books or items on their order will be able to do that at checkout. Check the extras available!
Declaration: John Freeman is a writer and editor for B7 Comics
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John is the founder of downthetubes, launched in 1998. He is a comics and magazine editor, writer, and Press Officer for the Lakes International Comic Art Festival. He also runs Crucible Comic Press.
Working in British comics publishing since the 1980s, his credits include editor of titles such as Doctor Who Magazine and Overkill for Marvel UK, Babylon 5 Magazine, Star Trek Magazine, and its successor, Star Trek Explorer, and more. He also edited the comics anthology STRIP Magazine and edited several audio comics for ROK Comics; and has edited several comic collections and graphic novels, including volumes of “Charley’s War” and “Dan Dare”, and Hancock: The Lad Himself, by Stephen Walsh and Keith Page.
He’s the writer of comics such as Pilgrim: Secrets and Lies for B7 Comics; “Crucible”, a creator-owned project with 2000AD artist Smuzz; and “Death Duty” and “Skow Dogs”, with Dave Hailwood.
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