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• Are your ready for Small Press Day 2019?

  By John Freeman on 2 July 2019

  

  Small Press Day 2019 looks set to be the best celebration yet of the British independent comic press and micro publishers from its dedicated team of organisers. In 2016 an idea born on Twitter led to a series of nationwide… Read More ›

• Comic Madness at Macc-Pow in Macclesfield! – Lakes Festival Podcast reveals all…

  By John Freeman on 2 July 2019

  

  This week’s Lakes International Comic Art Festival Podcast leads with a report from the fourth Macc-Pow comic con, held in Macclesfield on Saturday 22nd June 2019, organised by regular Festival guest, writer, artist and publisher Marc Jackson. The event attracted… Read More ›

• Must have bandes dessinées for your bookshelf, by artist Keith Page

  By John Freeman on 1 July 2019

  

  Charlotte Corday and Dan Dare artist Keith Page picks out some of his favourite bandes dessinées… Anyone who has visited a French comics shop will be aware of the vast and bewildering varieties of books displayed. Here are a few… Read More ›

• “Third World War” collection due in 2020

  By John Freeman on 1 July 2019

  

  The definitive collection of Third World War, a powerful tale of of global capitalism, rebellion and exploitation created by Pat Mills and the late Carlos Ezquerra. A ground-breaking story, “Third World War” first appeared in the anthology title Crisis, the… Read More ›

• Striker: The Final Whistle special announced, ending strip’s 34-year run

  By John Freeman on 1 July 2019

  

  The final episode of the long-running comic strip Striker will be featured in a commemorative 52-page collectors’ edition of the comic, Striker: The Final Whistle. At least 33 pages of The Final Whistle will be all-new comic strips, picking up… Read More ›

• Tom of Finland Centenary exhibition announced as part of this year’s Lakes International Comic Art Festival

  By John Freeman on 1 July 2019

  

  The Lakes International Comic Art Festival 2019 is to celebrate the forthcoming 100th anniversary of the birth of Tom of Finland (born Touko Laaksonen), the world’s best loved queer artist, comics creator and gay icon with a special exhibition in… Read More ›

• Crowdfunding Spotlight: Advent Comics’ Tenth Anniversary anthology, Facets

  By John Freeman on 1 July 2019

  

  Celebrating its tenth anniversary, US indie publisher Advent Comics has launched a Kickstarter to publish a 100-page anthology, Facets to mark the occasion – and, like many smaller comics companies across the globe, makes no bones about how it sees… Read More ›

• Nick Abadzis faces Doctor Who: Panel to Panel probe

  By John Freeman on 30 June 2019

  

  Episode #111 of Doctor Who: Panel to Panel, the great Doctor Who comics-focused podcast by Jeremy Bement, is live and offers a great chat with award-winning comics writer and artist Nick Abadzis. Nick Abadzis’ epic run on Titan Comics’ Tenth… Read More ›

• Panel Borders: Inspired by Autobiography

  By John Freeman on 30 June 2019

  

  In an episode of the comics radio show Panel Borders looking at how personal experience can inform the content of graphic novels, Alex Fitch talks to cartoonist Ian Williams about his books The Bad Doctor and The Lady Doctor. Plus, guest presenter Philippa Perry discusses The Book of Sarah with its author, artist Sarah Lightman, about the book’s mix of fine art drawings and diary entries.

• “Penalty” Football Card Game box art by John Armstrong on eBay

  By John Freeman on 29 June 2019

  

  “Penalty“, a football-inspired Pepys card game was invented by Ernesto Scola of Milan, working with a team of twelve specialists who took five years including playing 18,000 trial games to develop the game. It was first published on the continent… Read More ›

• John Patrick Reynolds offers new limited edition “Dennis the Menace” print

  By John Freeman on 29 June 2019

  

  Screen printer John Patrick Reynolds is offering a new limited edition print of Dennis the Menace, based on an which first appeared in an edition of The Beano annual in the 1960s – and has inspired other similar illustrations of the character since

• US technology company Megahoot ramps up comics plans, appoints Lawrence White Chief Creative Officer

  By John Freeman on 29 June 2019

  

  Megahoot “MEGA”, a US-based blockchain technology, Cybersecurity and smart technology company, has appointed writer, artist and publisher Lawrence White as its company’s Chief Creative Officer “CCO” who will lead all creative efforts for MEGA’s online and print graphic novels, online gaming platforms, brand collateral for the company’s film, TV and comic book projects

• WebFind: Exploring the Barnes Museum of Cinematography, St Ives, Cornwall in the 1970s

  By John Freeman on 28 June 2019 • ( 1 )

  

  The Barnes Collection is a collection of film apparatus and ephemera relating to pioneering Victorian filmmakers from Brighton and Hove. It was purchased by Hove Museum & Art Gallery in 1997 with money from the Headley Trust and the Friends of Hove Museum. The… Read More ›

• Ice Age: Scrat’s Nutty Adventure game launches this Autumn

  By John Freeman on 28 June 2019

  

  Global video games publisher Outright Games has announced a forthcoming console and PC-gaming experience set in the wondrous, prehistoric, universe of the Ice Age film franchise from Blue Sky Studios, Ice Age: Scrat’s Nutty Adventure. Based on the blockbuster film… Read More ›

• School’s Out Forever, Rebellion’s first in-house movie project, gets greenlit

  By John Freeman on 28 June 2019

  

  Rebellion, owners of 2000AD, recently announced its first in-house projects that will use the company’s new studio space near Oxford. Post-apocalyptic thriller School’s Out Forever will be shot there and on location, followed by several projects based on Rebellion’s comic… Read More ›

• Does Aces Weekly Volume 40 see the debut of a new heroine – Siriana?

  By John Freeman on 28 June 2019

  

  Aces Weekly Volume 40 offers surprise selection box of the light and the dark, the hard and the soft, and the nutty in one digital anthology, with strips by Jok LP, Rodolfo Santullo, David Leach, Roberto Corroto Cuadrado, Anthony Zicari,… Read More ›

• London set to go LEGO crazy at London Film & Comic Con, London Brick Festival

  By John Freeman on 28 June 2019

  

  Celebrate all things LEGO at the London Brick Festival, returning 22nd September 2019

• Crowdfunding Spotlight: The Slash Moron Limited Edition Graphic Novel

  By John Freeman on 27 June 2019

  

  Seeking crowdfunding right now on Indiegogo is a limited edition release of Slash Moron, written, inked and lettered by Bambos Georgiou – a wonderful parody of a certain square-jawed all-action space hero of the 1930s… Bambos, who I’ve known since… Read More ›

• The Future Belongs to Cats! Ahoy Comics “Captain Ginger” collection released

  By John Freeman on 27 June 2019

  

  US publisher Ahoy Comics have just released Captain Ginger – Survival Instinct, collection of their Captain Ginger title, an SF series set in the future where cats have inherited the Earth, brought to you by Deadpool the Duck writer Stuart… Read More ›

• “Infinite Stars: Dark Frontiers” features new SF by Jack Campbell, Becky Chambers and many more

  By John Freeman on 27 June 2019

  

  Titan Books are releasing Infinite Stars: Dark Frontiers this autumn, a new SF anthology edited by Bryan Thomas Schmidt featuring 27 stories – 15 of them original to the book, including one by “Lost Fleet” author Jack Campbell, who I… Read More ›

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