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• Crowdfunding Spotlight: How to THINK when you WRITE BOOK by Robin Etherington

  By John Freeman on October 2, 2019

  

  Robin Etherington’s How to THINK when you WRITE book has already smashed its target on Kickstarter, but if you haven’t already backed it, or got your hands on copies of his brother Lorenzo’s How to THINK when you DRAW books, this is your chance to do so

• Lakes Festival Focus 2019: Cartoonist, Jibé

  By John Freeman on October 1, 2019

  

  Every year, in the countdown to the Lakes International Comic Art Festival in October, we bring you a series of interviews with guests at the event. This “Festival Focus” for 2019 is with Jean-Baptiste Pollien, aka Jibé, a French cartoonist,… Read More ›

• Portsmouth Comic Con announces new commercial partners for 2020

  By John Freeman on October 1, 2019

  

  Portsmouth Comic Con has announced an impressive line up of both local and national sponsors for its third annual event in May 2020. Some you would not automatically connect with comics and other specialist media interests, indicating just how mainstream such hobbies are now considered.

• BBC’s first trailer for H.G. Wells “War Of The Worlds” released

  By John Freeman on September 30, 2019 • ( 2 )

  

  The BBC has dropped its first trailer for its long awaited three-part War Of The Worlds drama, expected to head to BBC One at the end of October – although a transmission date has yet to be confirmed. Filmed last… Read More ›

• The Book Palace reveals two “Illustrator Specials” for 2020

  By John Freeman on September 30, 2019

  

  London-based The Book Palace has revealed advance covers for two illustrators Specials for release next year – one focusing on the work of veteran 2000AD artist John M. Burns, the other to showcase some of the greatest pirate art ever… Read More ›

• Rebellion seeks out a British Comics Archivist

  By John Freeman on September 30, 2019

  

  Rebellion, publishers of 2000AD, Judge Dredd Megazine and much more, possesses the largest archive of British comics and British popular culture publishing in the world, and any good archive needs an archivist – and that’s exactly what the company is looking for

• Lakes Festival Focus 2019: Graphic Novelist Fabien Toulmé

  By John Freeman on September 30, 2019

  

  Every year, in the countdown to the Lakes International Comic Art Festival in October, we bring you a series of interviews with guests at the event. This “Festival Focus” for 2019 is with French graphic novelist Fabien Toulmé, a comic… Read More ›

• Bag of Holding Fundraiser under way to support games publisher Battlefield Press after arson attack

  By John Freeman on September 30, 2019

  

  Bundle of Holding, a company that presents time-limited collections of tabletop roleplaying games, or books by RPG designers, as DRM-free ebooks, is running an offer to help support award-winning games publisher Jonathan Thompson, the owner of Battlefield Press after an… Read More ›

• New FANSCENE honours Stan Lee and Mike Noble

  By John Freeman on September 29, 2019

  

  A mere matter of weeks after the publication of the last issue, artist David Hathaway-Price, keeper of the amazing online Classic UK Comics Zines Archive, has released a new issue of his brilliant FANSCENE, a free PDF format title dedicated to all things comic zine

• ComicScene announces plans for “Corker!” all ages comic supplement

  By John Freeman on September 29, 2019

  

  ComicScene is to launch launch Corker! in November –  an ‘all ages’ comic – as a pull out supplement in the magazine and the team behind the magazine  looking to the ‘Legion of Comic Fans’ to support and spread the word…. Read More ›

• Adlard, McGarrys, Rockman and more wow with Lakes Festival Windows Trail comic art in Kendal

  By John Freeman on September 29, 2019

  

  The seventh year of the Lakes International Comic Arts Festival brings with it the annual “Windows Trail”, now bringing Kendal alive with comics in the run up to the annual weekend of comic creator-led fun, over 11th – 13th October

• Spider-Man set to span two cinematic universes, Marvel film dates update

  By John Freeman on September 28, 2019

  

  Good news for Spider-Man fans. Sony Pictures Entertainment and The Walt Disney Studios have jointly announced that Marvel Studios and its President Kevin Feige will produce the third film in the Spider-Man Homecoming starring Tom Holland. The film is scheduled… Read More ›

• When British Comics were… European!

  By downthetubes Guests on September 28, 2019 • ( 4 )

  

  Bambos Georgiou takes a look at just some of the European comic strips that once featured in Fleetway’s British weekly comics

• Actress and Comic Creator Jessica Martin to star in new one woman play

  By John Freeman on September 28, 2019

  

  Doctor Who writer Stephen Wyatt has written a one woman play specially for actress and comics creator Jessica Martin. Directed by Samuel Clemens, You Thought I Was Dead, Didn’t You? is inspired by the lost female film stars of British… Read More ›

• Tricks of the Trade: Writing a Comics-inspired Novel, by Steve MacManus

  By John Freeman on September 28, 2019

  

  Former Tharg, comics editor and writer Steve MacManus shares his experience of writing his first novel, The Sheerglam Conspiracy, a story set inside the world of 1970s British comics. 40,000 words long, it took 14 long months to write –… Read More ›

• Creating Comics: Writing That First Issue of a New Comic, by Monty Nero

  By downthetubes Guests on September 27, 2019

  

  The first ever issue of the new Frenemies title by Monty Nero and Yishan Li has gone out digitally – to backers only – so it seemed like a good time to ask co-creator and X-Men writer Monty Nero to… Read More ›

• Toys and Licensing – troubled times ahead as Brand Licensing Europe nears?

  By John Freeman on September 27, 2019 • ( 3 )

  

  The UK licensing industry is the second largest in the world, and the biggest in the Europe, with a value of $14.58bn (£11.84bn) in 2018, according to figures from the global licensing industry body, Licensing International, a growth of 3.9… Read More ›

• Lakes Festival Focus 2019: Comics Promoter Árni Beck Gunnarsson

  By John Freeman on September 27, 2019

  

  Every year, in the countdown to the Lakes International Comic Art Festival in October, we bring you a series of interviews with guests at the event. This “Festival Focus” for 2019 is with Árni Beck Gunnarsson, a comics creator whose… Read More ›

• Scorch Comics delivers a great “Comic Zone” to Wyntercon VI this weekend

  By John Freeman on September 27, 2019

  

  If you’re in the Eastbourne area this weekend and looking for something comic-related to do then look no further than Wyntercon VI, which features a great Comic Zone line up, put together by local comic shop Scorch Comics. Over the… Read More ›

• Vojtěch Mašek arrives in Kendal in new Comics Cultural Exchange

  By John Freeman on September 26, 2019

  

  The Czech Literary Centre, a section of the Moravian Library, and the Lakes International Comic Art Festival have released details of their Comics Cultural Exchange taking place this autumn. Czech comic book writer and artist Vojtěch Mašek has now arrived… Read More ›

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