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• Redan Publishing launches new Fun to Learn title next month

  By John Freeman on 8 February 2018

  

  Pippa Pigg publishers Redan Publishing is launching Fun To Learn Friends Art magazine next month, which will contain art and craft activities featuring favourite pre-school characters such as Peppa Pig, Paw Patrol and PJ Masks. FTL Friends Art is aimed… Read More ›

• First ever all-women creator issue of 2000AD announced, news prompts online debate

  By John Freeman on 8 February 2018

  

  For the first time in four decades, legendary sci-fi action comic 2000AD is to publish an issue with an all-female creative line-up, including work by award-winner Tillie Walden, Tula Lotay, and Alex De Campi – and that’s not the only… Read More ›

• World War One saboteurs, bob sleighing Generals and more in new Commando comics!

  By John Freeman on 8 February 2018

  

  The latest issues of DC Thomson’s war comic Commando (Issues 5095 – 5098) are on sale now in all good newsagents and via various digital platforms. Soldiers sabotage Jerry lines after the Somme during World War One, bobsleigh down mountains… Read More ›

• Garth Ennis and PJ Holden Deliver New Tank Combat Story

  By John Freeman on 8 February 2018

  

  Eisner Award-winning comics legend Garth Ennis (Preacher, Punisher) and artist PJ Holden (Warhammer Monthly, Johnny Woo, 2000AD) once again take command for a new action-packed miniseries inspired by Wargaming’s massively popular online game World of Tanks. World of Tanks: Citadel from… Read More ›

• Al Ewing pens Marvel’s new You are Deadpool title

  By John Freeman on 7 February 2018

  

  Remember The Warlock of Firetop Mountain? Diceman? Well, it seems Marvel has decided to take a leaf from those old dice roll-decided, choose your own path tales. Look out for a new Deadpool weekly mini series in comic shops, launching… Read More ›

• In Review: 2000AD 2067 (plus a look at Judge Dredd Megazine Issue 392, and more!)

  By John Freeman on 7 February 2018 • ( 1 )

  

  “Savage” artist Patrick Goddard provides the cover to this week’s 2000AD, on sale now in all good comic shops and newsagents across the UK now – and ABC Warriors and R0-Busters boss and long-term bad guy Howard Quartz has never… Read More ›

• Leonardo da Vinci: A Life in Drawing exhibitions plans announced for 2019

  By John Freeman on 7 February 2018

  

  If you’re a comic artist or illustrator seeking some inspiration, then you may be interested to learn that twelve galleries and museums across the UK are to launch simultaneous Leonardo da Vinci: A Life in Drawing exhibitions in February 2019, followed… Read More ›

• Panel Borders: Comics on Comics with Stewart Lee and Josie Long

  By John Freeman on 6 February 2018

  

  Comedians Stewart Lee and Josie Long discuss their appreciation of the medium and forays into creating strips in Panel Borders: Comics on Comics this week. Stewart Lee is an English stand-up comedian, writer and director who was one half of… Read More ›

• Sneak Peek and Review: Marie Duval, a new book spotlighting a pioneering female cartoonist

  By John Freeman on 6 February 2018 • ( 1 )

  

  Myriad Editions have very kindly sent me an advance copy of their new title Marie Duval, a superb study of the pioneering but near-forgotten female artist behind the creation of the first “breakout” British comic characters, Ally Sloper. I can definitely recommend… Read More ›

• Shazam! filming gets underway

  By John Freeman on 6 February 2018

  

  Production is underway on New Line Cinema’s Shazam! David F. Sandberg (Annabelle: Creation) directs the origin story, which stars Zachary Levi (TV’s Chuck) as the titular DC Super Hero, along with Asher Angel (TV’s Andi Mack) as Billy Batson, and Mark… Read More ›

• In Review and Pictures: Edinburgh’s Capital Sci-Fi Con 2018

  By Colin Noble on 6 February 2018

  

  Capital Sci-Fi Con was back in Edinburgh this weekend (3rd to 4th February 2018) with a line-up that included Doctor Who stars Sylvester McCoy and Sophie Aldred, alongside comics guests such as Nick Brokenshire, Gary Erskine, Tanya Roberts and John… Read More ›

• Bryan Talbot takes over Big Issue North!

  By John Freeman on 5 February 2018

  

  The latest issue Big Issue North magazine (Issue 1221), on sale now from street vendors across the North West, features a cover by and interview with cmic creator Bryan Talbot, creator of the Grandville graphic novel series. Grandville: Force Majeure… Read More ›

• Britain’s ace indie comics spotlight event, Small Press Day, back in July

  By John Freeman on 5 February 2018

  

  Small Press Day, a celebration of self-publishing, DIY culture, and grassroots comics across the UK and Ireland is back for a third outing on Saturday 7th July 2018. More information will be revealed soon. In 2016, an idea born on… Read More ›

• Lakes Festival Podcast “How to Make a Comic” Special released, with Pete Taylor

  By John Freeman on 5 February 2018

  

  There’s a very different episode of the Lakes International Comic Art Festival out now. Rather than interviewing a comic creator, the team pick comic artist Pete Taylor‘s brains about how to create a comic. Starting from the beginning with thinking… Read More ›

• Doctor Who: Panel to Panel probes Doctor Who Magazine editor Marcus Hearn

  By John Freeman on 5 February 2018

  

  Episode #94 of Jeremy Bement‘s Doctor Who: Panel to Panel podcast is live, and current Doctor Who Magazine editor-in-chief Marcus Hearn joins him for an extensive interview. As well as being editor of DWM, Marcus – who I first worked with… Read More ›

• OzConUK comes to Oswestry

  By John Freeman on 2 February 2018

  

  OzConUK is a new media event on the British scene for 2018, offering a mix of TV series and film actors, comics and cosplay, which has worked hard to promote their project through local schools. Taking place in Oswestry Shropshire… Read More ›

• In Review: Jeff Hawke’s Cosmos Volume 10 No. 3 (the end is near…)

  By John Freeman on 1 February 2018

  

  There’s a bitter sweet edge to the release of the new issue of Jeff Hawke’s Cosmos

• In Review: 2000AD 2066

  By John Freeman on 1 February 2018

  

  I’ve been thrown off course this week by unexpected events both professional and family related, but just a quick plug for this week’s 2000AD, on sale now in all good newsagents and comic shops, and various digital platforms. Top thrill?… Read More ›

• Brian Gorman’s Joy Division graphic novel published at last

  By John Freeman on 31 January 2018

  

  Writer/artist Brian Gorman‘s long-delayed graphic novel about the iconic Manchester band, Joy Division, is to be published in April. This is great news, as it’s taken nearly ten years for this marvellous-looking book to see print and personally, im looking… Read More ›

• Battle’s “Charley’s War” leads the charge for new Treasury of British Comics collections

  By John Freeman on 31 January 2018 • ( 1 )

  

  Considered by many as the most important war story to appear in comics, a new definitive collection of Charley’s War to mark the centenary of the end of the World War One leads the 2018 schedule from Rebellion’s Treasury of… Read More ›

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