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• New 2000AD, Judge Dredd Megazine on sale now, plus news of first “Art of” book from Rebellion

  By John Freeman on January 17, 2019

  

  2000AD Prog 2114 and Judge Dredd Megazine Issue 404, accompanied by the free, stunning first part of Battle Presents: Operation Overlord, are both on sale now in all good newsagents and comic shops across the UK, and across various digital… Read More ›

• UK’s Small Press Day 2019 Announced for 13th July

  By John Freeman on January 17, 2019

  

  The UK and Ireland’s Small Press Day returns this year on Saturday July 13th for its fourth annual celebration of comics self-publishing, micropublishing and DIY culture. The brainchild of cartoonist David Ziggy Greene, its aim is to provide a dedicated… Read More ›

• Sneak Peek: 2000AD Villains Take Over for Free Comic Book Day

  By John Freeman on January 17, 2019

  

  The dastardly and the iniquitous will be taking over this year’s Free Comic Book Day when Rebellion launch the first ever 2000AD Villains Takeover! Here’s some of the nefarious pages from this one shot… To coincide with Free Comic Book Day,… Read More ›

• Sneak Peek: Rebellion’s “Funny Pages” for Free Comic Book Day

  By John Freeman on January 16, 2019

  

  Rebellion is putting the funny back in funny pages this Free Comic Book Day – and has released a free preview!

• In Review: One Frame at a Time – Aardman, an Epic Journey

  By Joe Gordon on January 16, 2019 • ( 1 )

  

  By Peter Lord and David Sproxton, with David Gritten Simon & Schuster I’ve been in love with animation in all its forms (especially stop-motion) for as long as I’ve been in love with comics and books, but even for those… Read More ›

• Creating Comics: Awesome Comics Podcast interviews Alterna Comics founder Peter Simeti

  By John Freeman on January 16, 2019

  

  This week the Awesome Comics Podcast team are joined by the founder and publisher of Alterna Comics, Peter Simeti, to talk about his journey in comics and what the publisher are trying to achieve in the modern publishing world. Founded… Read More ›

• Lakes Festival Podcast gets a dose of Graphic Medicine with Ian Williams

  By John Freeman on January 15, 2019

  

  The Lakes International Comic Art Festival Podcast goes all graphic medicine  for their latest episode, chatting with ace comics creator Ian Williams. Ian created the Graphic Medicine website and following on from that has created two graphic novels, The Bad Doctor and the upcoming  The… Read More ›

• “Rick and Morty” heads to Channel 4

  By John Freeman on January 15, 2019

  

  American adult animated science fiction sitcom Rick and Morty, created by Justin Roiland and Dan Harmon for Cartoon Network’s late-night programming, is heading to Channel 4 in the UK. This is good news for Titan Comics, who publish collected editions of… Read More ›

• In Pictures: Frank Hampson Centenary Exhibition at Bourne Hall

  By Richard Sheaf on January 14, 2019

  

  For anyone who’s not managed to make it to Southport’s The Atkinson gallery for their superb Frank Hampson – The Man Who Drew Dan Dare exhibition, then you might try and make it to Bourne Hall in Epsom, Surrey, instead. Their… Read More ›

• Rebellion launches “Battle Presents” line with “Operation: Overlord”

  By John Freeman on January 14, 2019

  

  Rebellion Publishing is to present the international best-selling French graphic novel series Operation: Overlord for the first time in English – under the banner of Battle, one of the UK’s most cherished comics, the weekly war comic once home to… Read More ›

• Second Illustrator’s Survey seeks to snapshot UK illustration industry

  By John Freeman on January 14, 2019

  

  The second annual Illustrator’s Survey is live, backed this year by Hire an Illustrator. The survey is the brainchild of artist Ben O’Brien – and anyone who worked in commercial illustration in 2018 is being asked to please fill in the… Read More ›

• Digital publisher ComicFlix looks beyond licensed comics, to consumer market

  By John Freeman on January 14, 2019

  

  ComicFlix, a digital publisher that has developed a tech-based solution to convert films into graphics novels, is looking to expand into the consumer business, building on its initial titles available on Kindle which include of The Mask of Zorro, Sherlock… Read More ›

• Creating Comics: The Making of Commando Comic cover No. 5193 – ‘Cold Steel’

  By downthetubes Guests on January 14, 2019

  

  Graeme Neil Reid recently joined the star studded list of cover artists for DC Thomson’s anthology – a list that includes Ian Kennedy, Neil Roberts and many, many more.  Here, he outlines how he created his most recent cover for… Read More ›

• When Ron Smith drew for Eagle

  By John Freeman on January 12, 2019 • ( 2 )

  

  2000AD and DC Thomson artist Ron Smith may not have been a name immediately associated with the original Eagle comic, best known for “Dan Dare: Pilot of the Future” – created by Frank Hampson and his team – “Riders of… Read More ›

• Ron Smith – A Personal Tribute by Colin Noble

  By Colin Noble on January 12, 2019

  

  My appreciation of comic artist Ron Smith, who died earlier this week, is lifelong. His passing is a great loss to the British comics industry, and our community… On the afternoon of Wednesday 2nd October 1974, I was feeling a bit… Read More ›

• In Memoriam: 2000AD, comic creators and fans pay tribute to artist Ron Smith

  By John Freeman on January 10, 2019 • ( 10 )

  

  British comic creators, publishers and fans have paid tribute to Judge Dredd artist and former Spitfire pilot Ron Smith, who passed away aged 90 early yesterday

• Doctor Who Adventures Special released in the UK

  By John Freeman on January 10, 2019

  

  Celebrating the Thirteenth Doctor’s first season, Panini UK have released a new-look Doctor Who Adventures Special, on sale now in all good newsagents and supermarkets across the UK, priced £3.99, alongside the latest issue of Doctor Who Magazine. Aimed at 7-11-year-old… Read More ›

• Missing in Action: Heroquest at Marvel UK, and the RPG magazine that never happened

  By John Freeman on January 10, 2019

  

  Looking back at Marvel UK’s one-off foray into the world of role-playing magazines

• The Smurfs head to the Lakes International Comic Art Festival this October

  By John Freeman on January 10, 2019

  

  Wallonia-Brussels International, with the help of the Lakes International Comic Art Festival, is bringing an exhibition of The Smurfs to the Lake District later this year. The Smurfs incredible story began in October 1958, in the pages of the Belgian magazine Spirou…. Read More ›

• Whatever Happened to Eagle’s “Skippy the Kangaroo”?

  By John Freeman on January 10, 2019 • ( 2 )

  

  Not to be confused with the TV show of the 1960s (or its associated comics), “Skippy the Kangaroo” was an odd little humour strip that ran in the first volume of Eagle, and has been dismissed by some fans of… Read More ›

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