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• Anarchy in… er – Swindon! Punks Not Dead! signing announced

  By Antony Esmond on 10 October 2018

  

  So. Imagine you can’t get to Nottingham Comic Con on the 20th of October but fancy popping into a comic shop and meeting one of the UK hottest artists. Then The Incredible Comic Shop in Swindon and its event organiser… Read More ›

• Crowdfunding Spotlight: Jason’s Birthday Adventure, aimed at improving reading skills

  By John Freeman on 10 October 2018

  

  Unity Empower, a Scottish charity working with adults with learning disabilities have launched a crowdfunder for a new comic project – Jason’s Adventures. Unity Empower is looking to raise £3000 to be able to produce and publish Jason’s Adventures, a… Read More ›

• Eric Powell’s “Goon” celebrates 20th Anniversary in 2019

  By Joe Gordon on 10 October 2018

  

  Eric Powell‘s Goon hits the twentieth anniversary milestone next year, and the writer and artist turned publisher is planning to bring his most famous creation (previously published by Dark Horse) to his own Indy press Albatross Funnybooks, and undertake a… Read More ›

• Lakes Festival Focus 2018: Czech artist Tomáš Kučerovský

  By John Freeman on 10 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 Tomáš Kučerovský, one of the weekend-long event’s Czech creators. Born… Read More ›

• Looking Back at Thought Bubble 2018 and finding new ways to learn the comic craft

  By downthetubes Guests on 9 October 2018

  

  Artist and writer Gavin Pollock looks back at this year’s Thought Bubble Festival and reflects on its unique approach to promoting comics and, more widely the opportunities seeking to learn the comic craft it brings into focus… Thought Bubble day… Read More ›

• Lakes Festival Focus 2018: Ken Niimura

  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 Ken Niimura, a cartoonist and illustrator based in Tokyo. His breakthrough… Read More ›

• In Review: Doctor Who – The Woman Who Fell To Earth

  By Tim Robins on 9 October 2018

  

  Review by Tim Robins WARNING – SPOILERS AHEAD… First UK Broadcast: Sunday 7th October 2018 Written By: Chris Chibnall Directed By: Jamie Childs Introducing Jodie Whittaker as The Doctor; Bradley Walsh as Graham O’Brien; Tosin Cole as Ryan Sinclair; and… Read More ›

• Sneak Peek: Image Comics “Traces of the Great War” anthology launches this weekend at Lakes Festival

  By John Freeman on 9 October 2018

  

  Poet Simon Armitage, Edmond Baudoin, Victoria Lomasko, Dave McKean and the UK’s Comics Laureate Charlie Adlard are among creators whose work features in a new international comic anthology – Traces of the Great War – which gets its launch during the Lakes international Comic Art Festival this… Read More ›

• 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 ›

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