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• Lakes Festival Focus 2018: Ottilie Hainsworth

  By John Freeman on 9 October 2018

  

  Every year, in the countdown to the Lakes International Comic Art Festival, we bring you a series of interviews with guests at the event. This “Festival Focus” for 2018 is Ottilie Hainsworth, an artist and educator living in Brighton, where she… Read More ›

• SelfMadeHero lands English rights to acclaimed graphic novel “Guantánamo Kid”

  By John Freeman on 9 October 2018

  

  UK independent graphic novel publisher SelfMadeHero has acquired world English language rights to a landmark graphic biography about Guantánamo Bay, the United States detention camp in Cuba. Guantánamo Kid: The True Story of Mohammed El-Gharani is a compelling, deeply moving story… Read More ›

• On Sale This Week: 2000AD Prog 2102

  By John Freeman on 8 October 2018

  

  With a great cover from Cliff Robinson, coloured by Dylan Teague, 2000AD Prog 2102 is out this week – and it’s rammed with action! In this issue: JUDGE DREDD: THE SMALL HOUSE by Rob Williams (Writer) Henry Flint (Artist) Chris… Read More ›

• Lakes Festival Focus 2018: Artist and Writer Mark Stafford

  By John Freeman on 8 October 2018

  

  Every year, in the countdown to the Lakes International Comic Art Festival, we bring you a series of interviews with guests at the event. This “Festival Focus” for 2018 is Mark Stafford, co-creator of the Cherubs! graphic novel with Bryan… Read More ›

• Lakes Festival Focus 2018: Artist and Writer David Hine

  By John Freeman on 8 October 2018

  

  Every year, in the countdown to the Lakes International Comic Art Festival, we bring you a series of interviews with guests at the event. This “Festival Focus” for 2018 is David Hine, who has been working in comics since the… Read More ›

• Lakes Festival Focus 2018: Ian Kennedy

  By John Freeman on 8 October 2018

  

  Every year, in the countdown to the Lakes International Comic Art Festival, we bring you a series of interviews with guests at the event. This “Festival Focus” for 2018 is Ian Kennedy, a British comic artist whose work most downthetubes… Read More ›

• Comics Research Hub Launches at London College of Communication

  By John Freeman on 7 October 2018

  

  Leading comics scholars, including Dr Ian Horton (of the Applied Comics Network), Dr Ian Hague (Comics and the Senses), Dr Nina Mickwitz (Documentary Comics) and Professor Roger Sabin (Adult Comics: An Introduction), have launched a new research hub focusing on… Read More ›

• Carlos Ezquerra: His Early Comics Work for Wizard

  By John Freeman on 6 October 2018

  

  While Judge Dredd co-creator Carlos Ezquerra, who died this week, is well known for his work on 2000AD, he worked for other publishers, including Commando and Beano DC Thomson, which once published many more titles than they do today. One… Read More ›

• Lakes Festival Focus 2018: Kaisa Leka

  By John Freeman on 6 October 2018

  

  Every year, in the countdown to the Lakes International Comic Art Festival, we bring you a series of interviews with guests at the event. This “Festival Focus” for 2018 is Kaisa Leka, a Finnish comics artist and adventurer who, together… Read More ›

• Lakes Festival Focus 2018: Drew Marr, the Festivals’s youngest ever exhibitor?

  By John Freeman on 5 October 2018

  

  Every year, in the countdown to the Lakes International Comic Art Festival, we bring you a series of interviews with guests at the event. This “Festival Focus” for 2018 is possibly the event’s youngest exhibitor ever,  Drew Marr from Dundee, Scotland… Read More ›

• Vote for graphic novels on the “most rebellious reads of the 21st century” list

  By Joe Gordon on 5 October 2018

  

  With Book Week Scotland coming up soon (running from 19th to 25th of November), the Scottish Book Trust has created a poll where readers can vote for the “most rebellious read of the 21st century”. From their description: “This Book… Read More ›

• Comichaus and British Library Team Up to preserve digital comics

  By John Freeman on 5 October 2018

  

  Creators and publishers in the UK can now use the Comichaus database site to not only submit their digital comics to the Comichaus app – but with one click they can also send a copy to the British Library for… Read More ›

• Lakes Festival Focus 2018: Writer and Illustrator Owen Michael Johnson

  By John Freeman on 5 October 2018

  

  Every year, in the countdown to the Lakes International Comic Art Festival, we bring you a series of interviews with guests at the event. This “Festival Focus” for 2018 is Owen Michael Johnson, a writer and illustrator who grew up… Read More ›

• Why Rebellion’s acquisition of IPC’s “classic comics” is great news for fans

  By downthetubes Guests on 5 October 2018

  

  David McDonald of Hibernia Comics, publishers of a number of limited edition collections and Archive books, assesses the impact Rebellion’s purchase of the IPC comics archive from TI Media and what it may mean for fans of British comics… The… Read More ›

• Beano Studios announces Rocket Licensing as UK Licensing Agent

  By John Freeman on 5 October 2018

  

  Beano Studios has announced the appointment of Rocket Licensing as their UK licensing agent and Angeles Blanco’s promotion to Director of Global Licensing. Rocket Licensing – whose clients also include US comics publisher Valiant Entertainment, MGM and Sony Pictures –… Read More ›

• Arthur Ranson signing tonight celebrates 10 years of exhibitions at London’s Orbital Comics

  By John Freeman on 5 October 2018

  

  The Mazeworld signing and launch of The Art of Arthur Ranson exhibition is on tonight at Orbital Comics, London. The deluxe new edition of Mazeworld from Rebellion Publishing collects the entire dark fantasy he created with Alan Grant, and was… Read More ›

• Hammer Horror set to hit the High Street!

  By John Freeman on 4 October 2018

  

  Aisle19 Solutions is to bring classic Hammer Horror style to the British high street, thanks to its new partnership with the British film studio, and its first port of call is Topman and Topshop. Aisle19 Solutions has secured the rights… Read More ›

• Work continues to celebrate the First Cat in Space with memorial statue

  By John Freeman on 4 October 2018

  

  Late last year, artist Matthew Serge Guy launched a Kickstarter to create a memorial to Félicette, the first cat in space. The project clearly caught the mood of cat lovers worldwide, because he raised over £43,000 to make the project… Read More ›

• Crowdfunder in memory of 2000AD artist Carlos Ezquerra smashes target

  By John Freeman on 4 October 2018

  

  Fans of 2000AD artist Carlos Ezquerra, who died earlier this week, have launched a JustGiving page in his memory, which has already raised £2600. “Carlos was one of the finest comic book artists of his generation,” says Dale Jackson, who… Read More ›

• Tales from Toxic! That Never Were: “Dino-Wars”, by Pat Mills and David Pugh

  By John Freeman on 4 October 2018

  

  Toxic! was a British weekly comic book published in 1991  by Apocalypse Ltd. that ran for just 31 issues before numerous problems combined to bring the project to a halt and the publisher sadly went out of business. But it… Read More ›

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