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• Canterbury’s The Beaney to host “Comics: Explore and Create Comic Art” touring exhibition

  By John Freeman on January 14, 2020

  

  Canterbury’s The Beaney is the latest venue to host Comics: Explore and Create Comic Art, a family-friendly touring exhibition from Seven Stories, exploring the wonderful world of comics next month. Opening at The Beaney during February half term, Comics: Explore… Read More ›

• Danger Mouse, Forest 404 writers honoured in 2020 Writers’ Guild Awards

  By John Freeman on January 14, 2020

  

  Writers behind some of last year’s most critically acclaimed works have been honoured at the 2020 Writers’ Guild Awards ceremony, including Danny Brocklehurst, Shola Amoo, Season Butler, Gillian Juckes and Jimmy McGovern. Awards also went to the writers of the Danger Mouse animated series, the… Read More ›

• Looking back at Lawless 2019, looking forward to Lawless 2020!

  By Richard Sheaf on January 13, 2020

  

  By Richard Sheaf As the guest list for Lawless 2020 has now been released, I thought I should collate my thoughts on my inaugural trip to the 2000AD and Judge Dredd-inspired event last year, which has spread its programming remit… Read More ›

• Zoom Back to the 1990s, with Zig and Zag’s Zogazine!

  By Richard Sheaf on January 13, 2020

  

  Take a trip back to the end of the last millennium, and check out this short-lived but funny comic!

• Oozing Talent, new volume of Aces Weekly is up, running and blasting from your nearest screen!

  By John Freeman on January 13, 2020

  

  Volume 43 of digital comics anthology Aces Weekly is running now – a seven-week, seven-part voyage of wonder offering a global reach of terrific talent including Chris Geary, Jok LP, Carlos Pascoa, Rodolfo Santullo, Anthony Smith, Ben Bernard-Smith, Tobias Taitt… Read More ›

• John Russell Fearn’s SF, including Golden Amazon stories, back in print

  By John Freeman on January 13, 2020

  

  If you’ve been enjoying the adventures of the Golden Amazon, drawn by Ron Turner, in Spaceship Away, then you may be interested to know that a number of novels starring the warrior space heroine written by John Russell Fearn are… Read More ›

• In Memoriam: SF author Mike Resnick

  By John Freeman on January 13, 2020

  

  Author Lou Anders pays tribute to award-winning American science fiction writer and editor Michael Diamond Resnick, whose death on 10th January 2020 was announced by his daughter Laura last week after battling cancer. A much-loved creator, he won five Hugo… Read More ›

• Don’t miss out on this limited edition Airfix calendar!

  By John Freeman on January 12, 2020

  

  The Airfix Collectors’ Club has produced their Airfix Vintage Calendar for 2020 featuring 13 Airfix box top paintings by Eagle and Swift artist Roy Cross

• Reality TV takes a grisly turn in Markosia’s “Stay Alive”

  By John Freeman on January 12, 2020

  

  Coming soon from Markosia is Stay Alive, a new graphic novel created and written by James Harberson and Mackie Wildwood, pencilled, inked and coloured by Stephen Baskerville

• Limited edition Wally Wood exhibition catalogue now available to order from Festival International de la Bande Dessinée d’Angoulême

  By John Freeman on January 12, 2020

  

  Three of the major exhibitions at this year’s Festival International de la Bande Dessinée d’Angoulême in France are accompanied by a substantial, deluxe, limited-edition hardcover catalogues, including the Wallace “Wally” Wood exhibition

• Crowdfunding Spotlight: The Penned Guin – Vision by Alan Henderson

  By John Freeman on January 12, 2020

  

  Just launched on Kickstarter is a campaign for a print edition of the wonderfully silly, critically-acclaimed comic strip The Penned Guin by Alan Henderson, an all new collection titled Vision, comprising of the daily cartoons that appeared on-line throughout 2019…. Read More ›

• Brian Bolland’s iconic “Amazing Heroes” Judge Dredd cover included in ComicLink auction next month

  By John Freeman on January 12, 2020

  

  Published in 1984, Fantagrahics Amazing Heroes magazine (#52), ran a Judge Dredd cover by Brian Bolland which on publication promoted a “European Invasion” of US comics – and the art itself is up for auction next month at ComicLink

• New Essential Judge Dredd graphic novel line launches in September

  By John Freeman on January 11, 2020

  

  The ultimate introduction to the ultimate lawman – Essential Judge Dredd – launches this September

• ComicScene Announces upcoming Comic Creators Directory

  By John Freeman on January 11, 2020

  

  How would you like to be in the new ComicScene Comic Creators Directory in 2020? It’s free for creators to do so from UK, Ireland, Europe, the United States, Australia and Canada

• In Review: Doctor Who – Spyfall, Part Two

  By downthetubes Guests on January 10, 2020

  

  Reviewed by Paul Mount In part two of Spyfall, a terrifying plan to destroy humanity is about to reach fruition. Can the Doctor and her friends escape multiple traps and defeat a deadly alliance? Now and again a Doctor Who… Read More ›

• Latest Doctor Who Magazine “Deluxe Edition offers “Past Masters” comics treat!

  By John Freeman on January 10, 2020

  

  The Deluxe Edition of the latest issue of Doctor Who Magazine, out now in WHSmith stores in a card-backed envelope, has a fantastic “bonus item” for comic strip fans in the form of a 32-page “Past Masters” collection, reprinting strips… Read More ›

• Latest issues of FANSCENE now available as print editions

  By John Freeman on January 10, 2020

  

  FANSCENE #3 and 4, published by David Hathaway-Price, also curator of the brilliant Classic UK Comics Zines web site, are now available as Special Edition Print versions.

• World Illustration Awards 2020 opens doors to comics and graphic novel entries

  By John Freeman on January 9, 2020

  

  The World Illustration Awards is open for entries until 18th February 2020 and this year has added an “Alternative Publishing” category, enabling entries from comic creators. Presented by The Association of Illustrators (AOI) in partnership with US-based Directory of Illustration,… Read More ›

• Born This Day: Blondie Creator Murat Bernard “Chic” Young

  By John Freeman on January 9, 2020

  

  American cartoonist Murat Bernard “Chic” Young, the creator of the comic strip Blondie was born today, 9th January 1901. Other strips by Chic include his first regular work, the short-lived The Affairs of Jane in the 1920s, about a struggling film actress who… Read More ›

• Netflix trails Locke & Key, show debuts next month

  By John Freeman on January 9, 2020 • ( 1 )

  

  Netflix have released a trailer for their upcoming series Locke & Key, based on the critically acclaimed comic from US publisher IDW Publishing, created by Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodríguez

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