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• In Review: Vessels

  By Colin Noble on July 23, 2016

  

  Card Shark Comics has launched their second title and it is worth checking out. A mixture of fantasy, horror and the cold hard light of day merge together to give a very interesting Issue One. The story begins with our… Read More ›

• Hook Jaw is back – and Titan Comics has snagged him!

  By John Freeman on July 23, 2016 • ( 1 )

  

  (Updated 28th July 2016, new imagery added): Comics news site Multiversity Comics has delivered the news that Hook Jaw – the giant killer shark first brought to life in the pages of 1970s comic Action by Pat Mills, Ken Armstrong and Ramon… Read More ›

• Weird and Wonderful! It’s the new Doctor Who Adventures!

  By John Freeman on July 22, 2016

  

  You know something has been missing from your summer? Well, that’s all about to change with the latest issue of Doctor Who Adventures, featuring an all-new comic strip by James Peaty, Russ Leach and John Burns. PIRATES OF VOURAKIS James Peaty,… Read More ›

• A Friday Rant: The Perplexing Non Publicity for many British Comic Publications

  By John Freeman on July 22, 2016

  

  The latest issue of InPublishing, a magazine covering all aspects of newspaper, magazine and digital publishing – available free to those working in publishing – and which publishes all its features, free to view, online – has just interviewed Egmont… Read More ›

• Early debut for Titan Comics Mycroft Holmes title at SDCC, Titan Comics Plans Unveiled

  By John Freeman on July 22, 2016

  

  This San Diego Comic-Con, Britain’s Titan Comics is brings its biggest ever offering to the massive event – a feast of exciting debuts, SDCC variants and special appearances from a host of creators. These include NBA all-star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (Mycroft… Read More ›

• In Review: Antares – Episode 6

  By Jeremy Briggs on July 22, 2016

  

  Brazilian artist and writer Leo (Luiz Eduardo de Oliveira) continues his Worlds of Aldebaran saga of 22nd century interplanetary settlers with the final book in the ongoing Antares saga, Episode 6. Having flown with a small team from the settlers’… Read More ›

• Doctor Who Comics at San Diego, New Projects To Be Revealed

  By John Freeman on July 22, 2016 • ( 1 )

  

  If you’re lucky enough to be heading to this year’s San Diego Comic Con this weekend, then look out for a special Doctor Who convention special courtesy of Titan Comics – available in two variant covers, one by Alice X Zhang… Read More ›

• Panel to Panel Interviews Doctor Who comic creator Dan McDaid

  By John Freeman on July 22, 2016

  

  Episode 58 of Doctor Who: Panel to Panel is available for download, so grab your copy of The Crimson Hand graphic novel and flip through it as host Jeremy Bement chats with comic creator Dan McDaid about his run on the… Read More ›

• New Danger Mouse comic launches

  By John Freeman on July 21, 2016 • ( 3 )

  

  DC Thomson has launched its Danger Mouse magazine, a four-weekly magazine aimed at primary kids. It’s of course magazine is based on the hit CBBC show that’s successfully introduced secret agent Danger Mouse to whole new audience, saving London, saving the world… Read More ›

• Comic Creator Spotlight: A Story from “Buscavidas” by Carlos Trillo and Alberto Breccia, in English

  By John Freeman on July 21, 2016

  

  As a supplement to artist Ron Tiner‘s thee-part series on the life and work of Argentinian comics creator Alberto Breccia, here’s six pages from his work Buscavidas (a title which has different titles in English, among them “Story Gatherer”, “Scandal… Read More ›

• Awesome Comics Podcast Episode 55: Matt Rooke and Bubbles O’Seven

  By John Freeman on July 21, 2016

  

  The Awesome Comics Podcast Episode 55, features Matt Rooke, co-creator of Apes ‘n’ Capes, and brings you the lowdown on some talking comics … and apes! Matt Rooke, the artist behind Apes ‘n’ Capes and the brand new primate spy… Read More ›

• Neil Gaiman and Shane Oakley partner on “Forbidden Brides” for Dark Horse

  By John Freeman on July 21, 2016

  

  Dark Horse have announced Neil Gaiman (Sandman) is returning to one of his darkly complicated short stories in Neil Gaiman’s Forbidden Brides of the Faceless Slaves in the Secret House of the Night of Dread Desire. That’s surely got to… Read More ›

• Something For The Weekend (w/c 18th July 2016) – Support Your Local Comic Shop!

  By John Freeman on July 20, 2016

  

  So, last week as I was promoting the week’s new comics, I was a bit flippant about the price rises for imported US comics British comic shops will have to pass on to their customers (imposed by Diamond, who had no choice, either,… Read More ›

• Lakes International Comic Art Festival – Festival Flash Guide!

  By John Freeman on July 20, 2016

  

  The fourth Lakes International Comic Art Festival will run from 14-16 October 2016 in Kendal, Cumbria, celebrating great comic art from across the world – and the full details for every ticketed event have now been announced. Here’s a “Flash Guide”… Read More ›

• Comic Creator Spotlight: The Life and Work of Alberto Breccia – Part Two by Ron Tiner

  By John Freeman on July 19, 2016 • ( 2 )

  

  He’s perhaps best known to British comic fans for his work through the Bardon Press Features office in Barcelona for Fleetway Edtions in the 1960s, first on Super Detective Picture Library Number 172 “Passport to Peril” (an adaptation of the novel, Assignment Helene by Edward… Read More ›

• Caliber Comics pick up Jim Alexander’s “Amongst the Stars” project

  By John Freeman on July 19, 2016

  

  US publisher Caliber Comics is to release a new edition of the Amongst the Stars collection most recently published here in the UK by Planet Jimbot. Written by Jim Alexander with art from Mike Perkins and Will Pickering, Amongst The Stars reveals aliens… Read More ›

• “Blankets” creator Craig Thompson joins 2016 Lakes International Comic Art Festival line-up

  By John Freeman on July 19, 2016 • ( 2 )

  

  The Lakes International Comic Art Festival (14th -16th October 2016) has confirmed an appearance by one of the most critically-acclaimed cartoonists of his generation, award-winning author Craig Thompson, alongside current collaborator, the acclaimed French artist Edmond Baudoin. Thompson is the writer and artist of… Read More ›

• New Star Trek TV show heads to Netflix in world rights deal outside US and Canada

  By John Freeman on July 18, 2016 • ( 1 )

  

  Streaming network Netflix and CBS Studios International have inked a landmark international licensing agreement for the new Star Trek TV series, expected to launch in early 2017 and “introduce new characters seeking imaginative new worlds and new civilisations”. Netflix – already… Read More ›

• Vice Press get set to release limited edition Judge Dredd prints by Jock

  By John Freeman on July 18, 2016

  

  Vice Press has announced the upcoming release of its Judge Dredd Letterpress Set by Jock this week – an officially licensed, Limited Edition Portfolio Set featuring some of the artist’s stunning work on 2000AD‘s most popular character.   This new release – following… Read More ›

• “Striker” collections in the works, bringing entire football strips to book for the first time – and “Psycops” too?

  By John Freeman on July 18, 2016

  

  Dropped from The Sun‘s print edition earlier this year, popular football strip Striker, created by Pete Nash, looks on course to make a come back – both in the paper and online, via YouTube. Collections of the strip, first published in… Read More ›

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