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• British comic fanzines celebrated in style in FANSCENE – a new fanzine, of course!

  By John Freeman on January 23, 2018

  

  I’m delighted to report the release of FANSCENE, a very special celebration of over fifty years of comics fandom in Ireland and the UK. It’s a privilege to have been asked to be part of this free mammoth publication put… Read More ›

• Johnny Nero’s strange new adventures in India: or, how Women’s Liberation helped a comics cheat

  By John Freeman on January 23, 2018

  

  In the third of a series of articles, publisher, comics creator and historian of Tamil comics Nathan Viswa reveals some more disturbing and bizarre instances of British comics conflagration and copyright theft on the Indian sub-continent… In the previous case… Read More ›

• Petrichor by Gareth A. Hopkins – An Unusual Review for an Unusual Book

  By Antony Esmond on January 23, 2018

  

  “The war rages. People are slain. Vince Hunt decides he doesn’t like pork pies. This week, Dan Butcher doesn’t imagine painfully murdering someone on the commute – and the world will never be the same again.” Yes, you’re absolutely right…. Read More ›

• 14-18 NOW “Traces of the Great War” international comic anthology announced

  By John Freeman on January 22, 2018 • ( 1 )

  

  Kendal’s Lakes International Comic Art Festival has announced Traces of the Great War, a new and ambitious anthology publication exploring the traces and impact of the World War One on our lives today. Featuring over 20 internationally acclaimed comic artists and writers,… Read More ›

• A Few Thoughts on The Human Beings Issue 4 from SJ McCune

  By Antony Esmond on January 22, 2018

  

  The Human Beings Issue 4 Written and drawn by SJ McCune Published by Millicent Barnes Comics “I’m already in a different place. I left where. I let the tether out more and more. I am losing sense of where I… Read More ›

• London’s Lever Gallery to host Sixties-inspired “Uncovered” exhibition

  By John Freeman on January 22, 2018

  

  London’s Lever Gallery – a commercial art gallery devoted to post-war lifestyle illustration – is to showcase a selection of rare, original cover Pulp Art illustrations from the 1960s and early 70s next month. Artists selected for Uncovered: Illustrating the… Read More ›

• 2000AD-inspired Lawgiver convention returns to Bristol in May

  By John Freeman on January 21, 2018

  

  Tickets for the 2000AD-inspired LAWGIVER 4 event at the end of May in Bristol are now on sale. “If you enjoyed 2000AD’s 40th last year,then this is the convention you want to be at this year,” say the organisers of… Read More ›

• Could a Captain Britain TV series be back on the cards?

  By John Freeman on January 20, 2018

  

  Updated 16:36: Could a possible barrier to a Captain Britain TV series now have been put behind the team who were working on such a “Producer’s Pitch” for such a project, back in 2016? Well, forgive us in advance if… Read More ›

• Sneak Peek: Wild’s End: Journey’s End by Dan Abnett and INJ Culbard, out in June

  By John Freeman on January 20, 2018

  

  BOOM! Studios has announced Wild’s End: Journey’s End, a full-length graphic novel conclusion to the celebrated, anthropomorphic SF trilogy, will be released in June 2018. Written by Dan Abnett (Guardians of the Galaxy, Aquaman Rebirth) and illustrated by INJ Culbard… Read More ›

• Star Wars: The Last Jedi Art Director Kevin Jenkins joins Portsmouth Comic Con line-up

  By John Freeman on January 19, 2018

  

  With the news that Star Wars: The Last Jedi was the biggest film at the UK and Irish box office in 2017, Portsmouth’s newest Comic Con has announced that ILM London’s supervising art director Kevin Jenkins will be attending the… Read More ›

• In Review: Mockingbird: Nightmare on Another Planet by Flix Gillett

  By John Freeman on January 19, 2018

  

  By Flix Gillett Self Published – Limited Print Run 128 Pages The Book: 128 pages of Mockingbird’s space adventures, collecting the first three issues of Space: Out of this World with an additional 35 plus pages (that would have been… Read More ›

• Acclaimed Spainish comic artist Luis García Mozos retrospective exhibition announced

  By John Freeman on January 19, 2018

  

  Spanish cartoonist, editor, illustrator and painter Luis García Mozos – perhaps best known in the UK for his work for Warren Publishing on titles like Creepy – has just confirmed the wonderful news that he is going to have a… Read More ›

• Cosplay 101: The Basics of Cosplay by Holly Rose Swinyard

  By downthetubes Guests on January 18, 2018 • ( 1 )

  

  Wearing costumes for fun is far from new and costume parades were an integral part of early comic and other media conventions. But cosplay as a concept, in many ways a whole separate world to comic and other media fandom,… Read More ›

• More early Marvel UK art goes under the hammer at Heritage Auctions, alongside iconic US Amazing Spider-Man cover

  By John Freeman on January 18, 2018

  

  Following up on our report on how some art created for British comics helped Heritage Auctions profits soar in 2017, a number of early Marvel UK published pieces go under the hammer next month as part of their upcoming auction… Read More ›

• Webfinds: The Forbidden Planet the Movie Facebook Group

  By John Freeman on January 18, 2018

  

  There are some movies that stick in your head your whole life and for me (and George Lucas, Gene Roddenberry and so many, many more), one of them has to be Forbidden Planet. One of the most American SF movies… Read More ›

• Call For Papers: Retro! Time, Memory, Nostalgia – The Ninth International Graphic Novel and Comics Conference

  By John Freeman on January 17, 2018

  

  The organisers of Retro! Time, Memory, Nostalgia – The Ninth International Graphic Novel and Comics Conference taking place at Bournemouth University (Wednesday 27th  – Friday 29th June 2018) have issued a Call for Papers. Here’s their appeal: Retro – a looking to the past –… Read More ›

• Fumio Obata’s thought-provoking “On the Palm of Unknown” exhibition opens in Whitehaven

  By John Freeman on January 17, 2018

  

  A ground-breaking exhibition of comic art by Fumio Obata, On the Palm of Unknown, has gone on display at the Beacon Museum in Whitehaven, Cumbria, running until 25th March 2018. Commissioned by Lakes International Comic Arts Festival, the art project makes surprising… Read More ›

• In Review: 2000AD Prog 2064

  By John Freeman on January 17, 2018

  

  The latest issue of 2000AD is on sale today in all good newsagents, comic shops and a variety of digital platforms. With Rufus Dayglo‘s “Bad Company” cover leaping from shelves in your face, how can you miss it? Inside, Tharg… Read More ›

• Jim Baikie: An Appreciation by Alan Moore

  By downthetubes Guests on January 16, 2018

  

  Alan Moore pays tribute to comic creator Jim Baikie, who died in December… The first time I can across Jim Baikie’s art, without even knowing his name (a common condition with British comics of that period), would have been as… Read More ›

• If a “The Avengers” TV Show Reboot is in the works, would a tie-in new comic be far behind?

  By John Freeman on January 16, 2018

  

  Writer-directors Shane Black and writing partner Fred Dekker have scripted a TV pilot reboot for cult 1960s spy show The Avengers for Warner Bros. – but there’s no indication, as yet, if or when it might get optioned. Various web sites,… Read More ›

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