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• In Pictures: Orbital Comics “Kirby Consciousness” Exhibition, Image Comics-inspired exhibition on now

  By John Freeman on 24 January 2018

  

  For anyone who couldn’t get to the “Kirby Consciousness” exhibition at Orbital Comics in London, here are a few hurried snaps Richard Sheaf took the other evening, offering plenty of examples of Jack Kirby comics and artists taking their own spin on his work. In… Read More ›

• New Year, New Commandos – on sale this week!

  By John Freeman on 24 January 2018

  

  Brand new Commando comics from DC Thomson (Issues 5091-5094) go on sale in all good newsagents this Thursday (25th January 2018). This time out, a team of Nazi Fallinschirmjager paratroopers are in the loose in the Scottish Highlands during World War… Read More ›

• In Review: A Night With Friends For Nosferatu

  By Antony Esmond on 24 January 2018

  

  By Grisso Published by Enigmatic Labs – $3.00 – Black and White mini comic Warning: Adult humour and comment below! The Story: We get to meet some of Nosferatu’s friends. Lead by Nosferatu, they have an intervention with the elusive… Read More ›

• The Force is strong in Graeme Neil Reid’s January Art Raffle!

  By John Freeman on 24 January 2018

  

  Doctor Who and 2000AD artist Graeme Neil Reid‘s first Art Raffle of 2018 is live and there is a brother and sister (spoilers) to choose between in this Star Wars: A New Hope themed month. Graeme is a Scottish artist… Read More ›

• In Review: Start Again #1

  By Antony Esmond on 24 January 2018

  

    Written and created by Jamie Me Art by Toni Doya Colours by Sean Callahan Available through Vault29 | £3.50 | Full Colour NOTE: Adult and Maure Themes The Story: Start Again is a superhero boy meets girl comic set… Read More ›

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

  By John Freeman on 23 January 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 23 January 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 23 January 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 22 January 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 22 January 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 22 January 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 21 January 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 20 January 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 20 January 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 19 January 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 19 January 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 19 January 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 18 January 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 18 January 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 18 January 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 ›

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