A panel from the BBC’s new online Sarah Jane Adventures comic As Jeremy Briggs notes in his report on Doctor Who Adventures, the BBC have published a new online Sarah Jane Adventures comic. Although published in a web-friendly ‘sliding frame’… Read More ›
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The Dandy – Pulling Back From The Xtreme
Take a long hard look at the cover of the current issue of Dandy Xtreme. Stripped of its free gifts (five chewy sweets and a small toy light sabre) there is nothing to suggest that it is a comic, let… Read More ›
That’s Novel new London comic exhibition
THAT’S NOVEL: lifting comics from the page is a new exhibition at londonprintstudio which opens on 22nd October 2010, featuring the work of several artists including Charlie Adlard, Ho Che Anderson, Darryl Cunningham, the late John Hicklenton, the Metaphrog team,… Read More ›
Sci-Fi Art Now Creator Interview: Neil Roberts
Neil Roberts is a freelance artist and lecturer who’s worked in the videogame industry as a character artist for 12 years before going fully freelance in October 2008. In his time he worked on games such as Colin McRae Rally,… Read More ›
Striker Comic Archive released Free online
Football comic Striker is to have its entire 25-year archive made available to read free on its official website, striker3d.com. The library has been launched with the release of the first seven stories from 1985 to 1987 and new episodes… Read More ›
Bryan Hitch signing Ultimate Comics Studio
Top British comic artist Bryan Hitch will be signing his Ultimate Comic Studio at the Forbidden Planet Megastore London, on Saturday 23rd October 1 – 2.00pm. Bryan explores his inspirations, approaches and techniques through a stunning collection of his finest… Read More ›
Sci-Fi Art Now Interview: Paul McCaffrey
Paul McCaffrey graduated from Newcastle Polytechnic (as was) with a BA in graphic design. Since then, he’s mainly worked in the area of children’s educational illustration, so he’s done a lot of work you’ll never see for books you’ve never… Read More ›
Tony Lee, Mark Buckingham and Richard Piers Rayner take on more TARDIS tales for IDW
A British creator line up that includes writer Tony Lee and artist Mark Buckingham will keep US Publisher IDW’s Doctor Who comics afloat in the coming months. While the Eleventh Doctor has already had several comic strip adventures in Britain’s… Read More ›
Castaways and Comets! It’s the new issue of Jeff Hawke’s Cosmos…
The latest bumper issue of Jeff Hawke’s Cosmos – a magazine devoted to Syd Jordan’s space explorer, whose daily newspaper strip once ran in the Daily Express – is now available from the Jeff Hawke Club. Volume 6 Number 2… Read More ›
Jonathan Ross guest at British International Comics Show
Jonathan Ross. Photo (viaWikimedia): Admiralty Although British fans of the vampire comic book Turf were disappointed when artist Tommy Lee Edwards announced he would no longer able to attend this year’s British International Comics Show in Birmingham, they’re sure to… Read More ›
Panel Borders chats with Dickon Harris in an Anarchist Restaurant
Comic creator Paul O’Connell drops us a line to say an interview he did with ‘zine creator and regular Panel Borders interviewer Dickon Harris will feature on London’s Resonance FM tomorrow night. “The interview took place at the end of… Read More ›
Sci-Fi Art Now Creator Interview: Patrick J. Jones
Patrick J. Jones was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, growing up during the height of Ireland’s conflicts and was one of the first people to be awarded a Prince Charles Trust Fund. He now lives with his wife Cathy and… Read More ›
In Memoriam: Comic Artist Josè Maria Jorge
A Commando legend has, sadly, passed away
Sci-Fi Art Now Creator Interview: Tim Perkins
A stunning double page spread from Tim Perkins Worlds End Tim Perkins is comic and concept artist, designer and writer who I’ve known since my days at Marvel UK, back when I was editing Doctor Who Magazine and Tim was… Read More ›
Classic British Movie on DVD
11 October see the release of an over-looked gem of a film on DVD. Three Cases of Murder sounds like a conventional crime movie. However, the film is made up of three individual stories (rather like the classic Dead of… Read More ›
Super Squirrel Undefeated: The Get-Well Carlos Project
Back in July, comic fans heard the news that the legendary comics artist Carlos Ezquerra was suffering from lung cancer, so they thought it would cheer him up if they sent him a get well card – and that it… Read More ›
Moleskine Goes Peanuts to mark strip’s 60th anniversary
Here’s one for fans of Charles Schulz ace comic strip creation, Peanuts, which has appeared in many British newspapers down the years, along with many collections – most recently, The Complete Peanuts series published by Canongate Books. Moleskine, makers of… Read More ›
Eagle Times Volume 23 Number Three
The new issue of Eagle Times (Volume 23, Number Three) is available now from the Eagle Society. Autumn 2010 Contents A look at the “Realtime” chronology of the original Dan Dare saga, from the birth of Sir Hubert (1943), to Dan’s… Read More ›
Mark Beer busy on “Oak Swamp”
SciFi Art Now contributor Mark Beer has been in touch to say that he’s still trying to make it as a comic book cover artist, but in the mean time has been keeping busy in the film industry. “I’m currently… Read More ›
Crucible: Setting the Scene: Page 3
We’ve been quiet, haven’t we? That’s because we’ve been busy. Smuzz is busy on Page 7 (fight!) and I’ve now got to crack on and get him some more script pages, in between all the other things I have to… Read More ›