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• Catching Up with Comics Laureate Charlie Adlard – A Year in the Life

  By John Freeman on November 17, 2017

  

  Since receiving the ‘mantle’ (or indeed the slightly cheesy-looking cloak) from previous incumbent Dave Gibbons at the 2016 Lakes International Comic Art Festival, UK Comics Laureate Charlie Adlard has not rested on his laurels. Carole Tait reports… The Comics Laureate… Read More ›

• Doctor Who Target Book covers revisited – new limited edition collections from Who Dares

  By John Freeman on November 17, 2017

  

  Who Dare Publishing has just released a smashing new limited edition portfolio – The Target Cover Art of Andrew Skilleter. Andrew’s perhaps best known for his Doctor Who art (although he’s done a lot more) and this is the fourth… Read More ›

• Portsmouth Comic Con announces latest guests, including Walt and Louise Simonson

  By John Freeman on November 17, 2017

  

  Portsmouth Comic Con, which takes place in May 2018, has just announced five more international talents will be joining the already impressive array line-up of creators for panels, signings and sketches at the South Coast’s premier comic convention. With Thor: Ragnarok… Read More ›

• TV Century 21 Daleks art, Scottish First Minister’s charity comic donation!

  By John Freeman on November 16, 2017

  

  The December Compal comic auction has just been launched and includes some great comics and art, including a page of “The Daleks” by Ron Turner for 1960s comic TV Century 21 – and an Oor Wullie original artwork for charity… Read More ›

• The Wolf Onboard, multi-media project featuring comic by 2000AD’s Hilary Robinson, Nigel Dobbyn launches

  By John Freeman on November 16, 2017

  

  The inaugural edition from Death Ingloria, a seven-track album The Wolf Onboard, has just been released today. A multi-media project I got wind of earlier this year, at the 2000AD 40th Anniversary event. It’s a great looking – and sounding… Read More ›

• In Review: Out of Nothing by Daniel Locke and David Blandy

  By Antony Esmond on November 16, 2017

  

  Created by Daniel Locke and David Blandy Foreword by Dr. Adam Rutherford Full Colour – Hardback – 248 pages – £16.99 The Story: “Surreal sequences take us from Gutenberg’s printing press to Tim Berners-Lee’s World Wide Web, Grand Master Flash… Read More ›

• Drawing on the Past: Comic Creators wanted to mix it up with archaeologists, historians for London conference

  By John Freeman on November 15, 2017

  

  Drawing on the Past is a two-day conference on comics and the pre-modern world at Senate House in London on 10-11th September 2018  – and the organisers are looking for comic creators who fancy being involved in workshops/ reading groups with some historians… Read More ›

• Former Tharg Steve MacManus probed in latest Lakes International Comic Art Festival Podcast!

  By John Freeman on November 15, 2017

  

  There’s a slightly different episode of the Lakes International Comic Art Festival Podcast on offer this week as the team take an episode off. In place of their usual format, you get the opportunity to listen to a recording of… Read More ›

• Myriad Editions latest “First Graphic Novel Competition” Launched

  By John Freeman on November 15, 2017

  

  Publishers Myriad Editions have just launched the latest First Graphic Novel Competition, a project now in its third outing. The competition’s prize is for the creator of the winning entry to work with Myriad’s editorial team towards publication of their… Read More ›

• In Review: Spaceship Away 43

  By John Freeman on November 15, 2017

  

  The latest issue of Spaceship Away, the glossy zine inspired by the adventures of Dan Dare in Eagle, is available now, wrapped in a Christmas cover by Don Harley. (What a shame this and other Christmas-inspired Dare art isn’t available… Read More ›

• Dog fights and U-Boat hunts? It’s all-out action in new Commando comics

  By John Freeman on November 15, 2017

  

  Here’s the intel on the latest issues of DC Thomson’s Commando war comic (Issues 5071 – 5074), on sale in all good newsagents (and via various digital platforms) from Thursday 16th November. Prepare for some hairy Harley Davidson chases, aerial… Read More ›

• Siberian slaughter for Judge Dredd in the all-new 2000AD!

  By John Freeman on November 15, 2017

  

  On sale today in all good newsagents and comic shops – and various digital platforms- is 2000AD Prog 2057, sporting a knock out cover by Boo Cook. Lurking behind this is an enjoyable line-up of thrills, with Dredd’s mission into… Read More ›

• The Awesome Comics Podcast Catch Up – Don’t Miss their great ComicHaus Competition!

  By John Freeman on November 14, 2017

  

  It’s time for one of my overdue Awesome Comics Podcast catch ups – but the main reason for this is to plug the terrific competition in their latest Episode (124)! The ACP team – Dan Butcher, our very own Tony… Read More ›

• Sneak Preview: Jack Kirby and Wally Wood’s Sky Masters – Sunday strip collection coming from Amigo Comics

  By John Freeman on November 14, 2017

  

  US publisher Amigo Comics are to publish an  English language collection of Sky Masters of the Space Force: The Complete Sunday Scripts in Colour: 1959-1960, edited by Ferran Delgado in January 2018, featuring self-contained stories from an amazing newspaper strip drawn… Read More ›

• Comic artist Keith Burns turns his hand to new World War Two Ladybird Books

  By John Freeman on November 14, 2017

  

  Launched earlier this year as part of the new Ladybird Expert series, Battle of Britain is an accessible, insightful and authoritative account of the most famous aerial battle in history – featuring stunning art by “Johnny Red” artist Keith Burns…. Read More ›

• Coming Soon: the first ever Sheffield Micro Comic Con

  By John Freeman on November 13, 2017

  

  The first ever Sheffield Micro Comic Con will take place in December. The event’s an extension of the Sheffield Comics Network, which was founded by comic artist and editor Bambos Georgiou last year, a monthly meet-up for comic creatives, Taking… Read More ›

• In Review: Mann’s Best Friend by Sophie and Scarlett Rickard

  By Antony Esmond on November 13, 2017 • ( 1 )

  

  Written by Sophie Rickard Art by Scarlett Rickard Published by Gluepot Books Full Colour 164 pages, £14.99 The Story: Terry Mann has a dead-end job, a raft of mounting bills, an annoyingly needy sister and an inordinately large dog called… Read More ›

• Harlem Heroes 2000AD Prog 74 Pin-Up art by Massimo Belardinelli offered on eBay

  By John Freeman on November 13, 2017

  

  We all know that 2000AD Prog 74, published in 1978, features a stunning Judge Dredd scene from the “Cursed Earth” saga featuring deadly dinosaur Satanus by Mike McMahon… but the back cover by Massimo Belardinelli is pretty impressive, too –… Read More ›

• Alan Moore’s early work as a cartoonist comes under the spotlight in new academic work

  By John Freeman on November 12, 2017

  

  Alan Moore‘s early work as a cartoonist comes under the spotlight in the recently-released academic text, Alan Moore, Out from the Underground – Cartooning, Performance, and Dissent, by Dr Maggie Gray. Published by Palgrave Macmillan, the book explores Alan Moore’s… Read More ›

• Adrian Salmon’s “Steelbook” Shada Art – a Doctor Who delight

  By John Freeman on November 10, 2017

  

  One marvellous extra to the upcoming release of the “missing” Doctor Who story Shada is Doctor Who Magazine illustrator and comic artist Adrian Salmon’s art for the limited edition Steel Box Blu-Ray – but this isn’t his only contribution to… Read More ›

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