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More Spider-Man from Panini
US comics site Newsarama has just posted an interview with Panini’s Ed Hammond, editor of Spectacular Spider-Man and reprint editor of Marvel Pocketbooks, interviewing him about their UK range of Marvel reprints. Spectacular Spider-Man is reprinted in a number of… Read More ›
An Embuggerance: Terry Pratchett has Alzheimers
Possibly the best sellling fantasy novelist ever and certainly Britain’s biggest selling author until J.K. Rowling, Terry Prachett has announced he is suffering from a rare case of early onset Alzheimer’s. The news has come to his millions of fans,… Read More ›
Eisner Awards 2008 – Includes web comics
Submissions are now being accepted for consideration by the judges for the 2008 Will Eisner Comics Industry Awards. Publishers wanting to submit entries should send one copy each of the comics or books and include a cover letter indicating what… Read More ›
New ways to order comics?
With 2000AD going digital, here’s another interesting use of new technology.
Comics Piracy – Strange New Turn?
Shortly after Marvel and DC’s legal foray against the comic download site Z-Cult FM, another download site, ComicSearch, has been sent a cease and desist letter by Marvel demanding it remove trackers for illegal electronic copies of their titles. Torrent… Read More ›
Virgin’s Dan Dare – First impressions
There’s been huge debate about the new Virgin Comics Dan Dare on various online comics groups, especially comment based on the six or seven pages pre-released as a Virgin teaser. I for one was more than happy to wait to… Read More ›
Dandy Celebrations begin
Britain’s The Independent newspaper features a five page tribute to The Dandy on its 70th anniversary today (info via Lew Stringer, cheers!).
Crackdown on comics piracy begins
With their digital comics offerings now up and running, the big US publishers such as Marvel and DC Comics are beginning to crack down on comics piracy — the online uploading of complete scans of new US comics almost as… Read More ›
Happy 70th Birthday, Dandy!
Over on Lew Stringer’s always wonderful Blimey! It’s Another Blog About Comics, he notes that the world’s longest running comic The Dandy is 70 years old any day now. Issue Number 1 was cover dated 4th December 1937, which means… Read More ›
Survivors Returns
The Forbidden Planet International web site reports the BBC has confirmed that it has concluded a deal with the estate of the late Terry Nation to create a new version of the cult 70s science fiction show Survivors. Nation, well-known… Read More ›
Thy Will Be Done Launches
The first few pages of a new SF comic title, Thy Will Be Done, have been posted at Broken Voice Comics and are just waiting for you to go and enjoy them. Thy Will Be Done is written by Alexandre… Read More ›
Orange Superman
Northern Ireland seems to be having a bit of a fad for superhero characters this year. After the CPYU educational comic The Super Six comes an as yet unnamed superhero produced for the Grand Orange Lodge Of Ireland. Sporting an… Read More ›
Eagle Times Volume 20 Number 3 Released
The latest issue of the Eagle Society’s magazine Eagle Times (Volume 20 Number 3) is now available by mail order. Contents Frank Hampson’s pre- and post-Dan Dare Art (part 2) Some thoughts on Dan Dare’s ‘Operation Saturn’ Jack o’Lantern in Wiltshire,… Read More ›
Rennie’s New Prescription
Judge Dredd and console game writer Gordon Rennie divulges trade secrets in his new column about writing computer game scripts. Rennie, a former music journalist turned comics writer whose credits include strips for 2000AD such as Necronauts, Caballistics, Inc and… Read More ›
Top Books of 2007
Publishers Weekly has posted a listing of the comics chosen for the print magazine’s “Best Books of 2007”. The books chosen for the Comics section include British creators Bryan Talbot’s Alice in Sunderland and Nick Abadzis’s Laika, along with Adrian… Read More ›
One Dandy Of An Accident
Not your typical comics related news story but on Wednesday morning the flat bed trailer of an articulated lorry carrying steel beams crashed through the wall of D C Thomson’s Guthrie Street printing plant in Dundee used for printing annuals… Read More ›
Dan Dare, Yesterday’s Hero, Returns!
Yesterday’s hero is back. Everyone’s favourite space adventurer, Dan Dare, returns this month in a new action-packed series from Virgin Comics and top creative team Garth Ennis and Gary Erskine. Matthew Badham caught up with the Ennis and Erskine to… Read More ›
Thumpculture hits the Web
Brilliant artist Neill Cameron, whose career I’ve followed for years, has been in touch to “casually mention” that he’s finally had a chance to get back to stunning strip Thumpculture. “I recently completed the first ‘issue’ online at www.thumpculture.com, and… Read More ›
David Lloyd on Tour
Kickback and V for Vendetta artist David Lloyd has just dropped us a line to let us know he’s embarking on a signing tour in Ireland later this month. The tour has been organised by comic shop Sub City, as… Read More ›