Des Shaw, editor of the impressive Dan Dare A4 magazine Spaceship Away has been in touch to show us dummies of the covers of the three issues that are due in 2012. Dare fans looking at them will see that… Read More ›
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Warren Ellis re-opens ‘Three Panels Open’ Challenge
(with thanks to Matt Badham): Last year, top comic writer Warren Ellis did a thing for people who make comics called Three Panels Open. Literally, a three-panel comic. The only rules were that it had to be legible at a… Read More ›
GOSH Comics host Tom Gauld ‘Goliath’ book launch
Tom Gauld is a firm favourite at GOSH Comics in London, so they’re properly chuffed to be hosting the launch of his new graphic novel Goliath, a stripped-down, reworking of the David and Goliath myth, published by Drawn & Quarterly…. Read More ›
Happy Birthday, 2000AD! From artist and fan Simon Wyatt
Name: Simon Wyatt Blog or web site: Strangely Drawn: http://simonwyatt.blogspot.com Currently working on: Alpha Gods with Ian Sharman for Orang Utan Comics, Phantom Lung & The Garden of Dead Liars with Cy Dethan and Volume 2 of my graphic novel… Read More ›
Happy Birthday, 2000AD! From art droid Mike Perkins
Name: Mike Perkins Blog or web site: www.mikeperkinsart.com and http://perkyposts.blogspot.com/ Currently working on: I’ve recently finished up illustrating Marvel’s 31-issue adaptation of Stephen King’s The Stand and am now wonderfully embroiled in an open-ended run on Astonishing X-Men, collaborating with… Read More ›
Happy Birthday, 2000AD! from artist and fan Neill Cameron
Name: Neill Cameron Web site: www.neillcameron.com Blog: neillcameron.blogspot.com Currently working on: Currently drawing The Pirates of Pangaea and writing and drawing How To Make (Awesome) Comics for fantastic new weekly kids’ comic The Phoenix! (www.thephoenixcomic.co.uk) First memory of 2000AD? My… Read More ›
In Review: Dotter of Her Father’s Eyes
Dotter of Her Father’s Eyes by Mary and Bryan Talbot Publisher: Jonathan Cape Out: Now The Book: Part personal history, part biography, Dotter of Her Father’s Eyes contrasts two coming-of-age narratives: that of Lucia, the daughter of James Joyce, and… Read More ›
Leah Moore and John Reppion go Scouting!
Writing couple Leah Moore and John Reppion are to make their debut for the publishers of legendary British comic 2000AD. Leah’s father, the writer Alan Moore, first got his break in the pages of 2000AD in 1980 and went on… Read More ›
Alski’s baby celebrates 35 years of 2000AD
Journalist, musician and 2000AD forum member Alski – who has created many a 2000AD inspired song or video in the past – wrote this song to celebrate the 35th anniversary of 2000AD this week, “the best anthology comic in… Read More ›
Happy Birthday, 2000AD! From script droid Al Ewing
Al Ewing Blog or web site: I’m on Twitter! @Al_Ewing Currently working on: Currently writing The Zaucer Of Zilk for 2000AD and Jennifer Blood and Ninjettes for Dynamite Entertainment. More 2000AD work is on the way, some of which I… Read More ›