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• Lakes Festival Focus 2017: An Interview with Australian Comics Creator Bruce Mutard

  By John Freeman on October 11, 2017

  

  We’re just days away from this year’s Lakes International Comic Art Festival and we have another interview with one of many guests from across the globe – Bruce Mutard, an inspirational comics creator from Australia. A previous guest, this year… Read More ›

• Crowdfunding Spotlight: cyberpunkdreams by Rob Chant

  By John Freeman on October 11, 2017

  

  cyberpunkdreams is a great-looking dystopian world project, encompassing several different media including an illustrated collection of short stories that has already achieved its £4000 Kickstarter target, conceived by Cambridge-based author cyberpunk author Rob Chant. It’s a project by Late Night Games,… Read More ›

• Sneak Peek: Graphic Science by Darryl Cunningham

  By John Freeman on October 11, 2017

  

  Overlooked, sidelined, excluded, discredited: key figures in scientific discovery come and take their bow in an alternative Nobel prize gallery – Graphic Science, a new book by graphic novelist Darryl Cunningham published by Myriad Editions – and we have a… Read More ›

• “Illegal” a stunning new graphic novel from Eoin Colfer, Andrew Donkin and Giovanni Rigano, debuts

  By John Freeman on October 11, 2017

  

  Two years in the making, the graphic novel Illegal from Irish Children’s Laureate Eoin Colfer and children’s author and graphic novelist Andrew Donkin, illustrated by Italian artist, Giovanni Rigano, has just been published, and it’s already attracting well-deserved critical attention. The… Read More ›

• Out Today: Dan Dare #1 – Sneak Peek

  By John Freeman on October 11, 2017 • ( 1 )

  

  The new Dan Dare comic from Titan Comics launches today and we’ve got some pages to share with you. Here’s the full intel on this action-packed first issue, written by Peter Milligan, with art by Alberto Foche! It’s on sale… Read More ›

• New Lakes International Comic Art Festival “App” offers artwork rewards

  By John Freeman on October 11, 2017

  

  Heading to the Lakes International Comic Art Festival? Get the Festival app on your iPhone, iPad or iTouch – and grab some artwork rewards as you explore Kendal. Created by Mobetrics, a Cumbrian mobile technology and app development company, the… Read More ›

• In Review: Ismyre by B. Mure

  By Antony Esmond on October 10, 2017

  

  Ismyre by B. Mure Full Colour – 80 pages Published by Avery Hill Publishing “A fantasy mystery story…” The Story: In the city of Ismyre, Ed the sculptor works as his widower neighbour sings strange melodies late into the night…. Read More ›

• Finnish Comic Village rises up in Kendal, featuring Tove Jansson photographic exhibition and more

  By John Freeman on October 10, 2017

  

  The Finnish Institute in London launches The Finnish Village at the The Lakes International Comic Art Festival held in Kendal, Cumbria this weekend. The festival, which will take place 13th – 15th October, brings some of the biggest international names… Read More ›

• Frank Bellamy “Garth” strip sells for over $600 at Heritage Auctions

  By John Freeman on October 10, 2017

  

  Heritage Auctions offered this Frank Bellamy Garth daily comic strip first published in the Daily Mirror in 1975 in its latest auction at the weekend, which sold for over $650. J214 dated 8-29-75 sees Garth use a pilot’s trick to throw… Read More ›

• New Comics and Graphic Novels set to launch at this year’s Lakes International Comic Art Festival

  By John Freeman on October 10, 2017 • ( 1 )

  

  The Lakes International Comic Art Festival tales place this weekend in Kendal (13th – 15th October 2017). Along with its free Family Zone, comic creator talks, signings, exhibitions, illustration portfolio reviews, Finnish Village (and sauna!) there are a number of… Read More ›

• US Naval Academy Museum explores how the Navy has been portrayed in SF

  By John Freeman on October 6, 2017

  

  On 18th November 2017 from 1200 – 1700 EST, the United States Naval Academy Museum will host #NavyCon, a conference on how fleet forces have been portrayed in science fiction and how those apply to what the US navy does… Read More ›

• New York Comic Con 2017: Day One

  By John Freeman on October 6, 2017

  

  Tony Esmond reports from across the Atlantic on his first day at New York Comic Con 2017… Last night was a doozy. I met up with Marc Laming, Amri and Adrian Hashimi (check out www.adrianhashimi.com for some of the best… Read More ›

• Walking Dead exhibition opens in New York today at the Metropolis Gallery

  By John Freeman on October 6, 2017

  

  If you’re in New York for New York Comic Con right now, then you may be interested to know the Metropolis Gallery is hosting a free Walking Dead Comic Art Exhibit …just a ten-minute stagger from the Javits Center. The… Read More ›

• Netflix orders “Raising Dion”, based on director Dennis Liu’s young superhero comics project

  By John Freeman on October 6, 2017

  

  Netflix has ordered a ten-episode season of Raising Dion, a new SF drama series based on a comic book of the same name by award-winning director Dennis Liu, illustrated by Jason Piperberg. In the comic, Nicole, a young, African American single… Read More ›

• Parables of Care – a free comic about dementia that will touch your heart

  By John Freeman on October 6, 2017

  

  Here’s a touching new comic you can read for free online: Parables of Care. Creative Responses to Dementia Care, as Told by Carers is now available. This16-page publication presents true stories of creative responses to dementia care, as told by… Read More ›

• Cold War Commando!

  By John Freeman on October 5, 2017

  

  Here’s the intel on the latest issues of Commando (Issues 5059-5062) from DC Thomson, on sale now in all good newsagents across the UK and various digital platforms. Expect Cold War espionage, Battle of Britain aerobatics, lost Napoleonic treasures and… Read More ›

• Monad Journal Launch Symposium at the University of Northampton

  By John Freeman on October 5, 2017

  

  The University of Northampton  is to host the launch of a new peer-reviewed open access online journal MONAD next month – and comics writer Alan Moore is among invited guests for the Launch Symposium. The Monad Journal Launch Symposium on Thursday… Read More ›

• Call For Papers: Storytelling Conference 2018

  By John Freeman on October 5, 2017

  

  The organisers of the Storytelling Conference 2018 (10th – 11th July) at the University of Suffolk have announced the call for papers is now open. They are inviting papers that theoretically and empirically engage with a broad range of disciplines… Read More ›

• Jurassic World expected to be popular draw at Brand Licensing Europe next week

  By John Freeman on October 5, 2017

  

  2018 is going to be a perfect storm for the popular Jurassic World franchise, so it’s no surprise the franchise is expected to be a big attraction at this year’s Brand Licensing Europe show, taking place at Olympia, London (10th… Read More ›

• There’s no escape: The Prisoner is returning to comics

  By John Freeman on October 5, 2017

  

  Not for the first time, the short-lived, highly regarded 1960s TV series The Prisoner is being adapted for comics. Titan Comics has announced they are to publish all-new comic books written by Peter Milligan, drawn by Colin Lorimer,  to celebrate… Read More ›

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