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• “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 ›

• Sneak Peek: 2000AD Summer Special 2016 – Dredd, Ace Trucking, Robohunter and more! (No, not that Moore).

  By John Freeman on July 17, 2016 • ( 1 )

  

  This Wednesday (20th July) see the release of the 2000AD Summer Special 2016 – and it’s a cracker! Do your duty and pick this up, along with 2000AD Prog 1990 and Judge Dredd Megazine 374. Crammed with thrill power ,… Read More ›

• Doctor Who artist Paul Hanley delivers “Steampunk Iris” (Wildthyme, that is)

  By John Freeman on July 17, 2016

  

  Don’t miss “A Clockwork Iris” by Paul Magrs

• In Review: Monologue Issue 2 by SJ McCune

  By Antony Esmond on July 17, 2016

  

  The Story: This is a story of many themes and stories untold, just out of reach. A story of a woman and her disconnected feelings of loneliness in a world of vast space. There is a mystery behind this woman…… Read More ›

• In Review: The Wormgler by David Frankum

  By Antony Esmond on July 16, 2016

  

  Published by Lostappeared Books. £2.00 “… a tale of hope, the balance between light and dark and the mysteries within ourselves and the universe. It raises questions about our place in the world, but leaves the reader to draw their own… Read More ›

• Celebrating the British Small Press: 60 Great Small Comic Press (Part Three)

  By downthetubes Guests on July 16, 2016

  

  When Marvel UK shrunk its original strip output in the mid-1990s, not being a 2000AD reader, comic creator and reader Andy Luke had nowhere to go. He came to find that the small press, often photocopied works, were a core… Read More ›

• Celebrating the British Small Press: 60 Great Small Comic Press (Part Two)

  By downthetubes Guests on July 16, 2016

  

  When Marvel UK shrunk its original strip output in the mid-1990s, not being a 2000AD reader, comic creator and reader Andy Luke had nowhere to go. He came to find that the small press, often photocopied works, were a core… Read More ›

• Johnny Red Volume 4 On Sale Now

  By John Freeman on July 15, 2016 • ( 2 )

  

  Out now from Titan Comics is Johnny Red Volume 4: Flying Gun, the long-awaited fourth collection of classic strips featuring Britain’s Easter Front-seconded air ace. Written by Tom Tully and drawn by John Cooper – two immense talents of British comics sadly… Read More ›

• Something For The Weekend: New Comics On Sale (w/c 11th July 2016): Judge Dredd and Johnny Red!

  By John Freeman on July 15, 2016 • ( 1 )

  

  Comic shops are telling us they have stock of this week’s top-selling comic collection in the UK, Judge Dredd: The Cursed Earth Uncensored, but once they’re gone, they’re gone, because publisher Rebellion has announced the book has sold out, so no… Read More ›

• Reader requests help shape the latest re-presented Commando stories

  By John Freeman on July 15, 2016 • ( 3 )

  

  The latest editions of DC Thomson’s Commando (Issues 4931-4934), on sale now in all good newsagents and through various digital platforms, features four classic stories from the long-running title, some chosen by readers themselves. Commando No 4931 – Mark Of The… Read More ›

• In Review: Kenya – Illusions

  By Jeremy Briggs on July 15, 2016

  

  Kenya, Leo (Luiz Eduardo de Oliveira) and Rodolphe’s (Rodolphe Daniel Jacquette) ongoing series of spies, extinct beasts and strange flying lights that is set in post-war Kenya reaches a conclusion with its fifth book, Illusions, translated from the French and published by… Read More ›

• In Review: Spaceship Away Issue 39 – highlights Ian Kennedy, offers new Dan Dare adventures

  By John Freeman on July 15, 2016

  

  The latest issue of Spaceship Away, the magazine devoted to Dan Dare, Eagle and its many creators is out now, offering a great line up of strips and features behind a cover by the late Frank Bellamy. Tim Booth continues… Read More ›

• Judge Dredd: The Cursed Earth Uncensored sells out in just 24 hours

  By John Freeman on July 14, 2016 • ( 4 )

  

  The uncensored edition of the legendary Judge Dredd epic, The Cursed Earth, has sold out in the UK – less than a day after going on sale. Unprecedented demand for The Cursed Earth Uncensored has resulted in distributors being cleared… Read More ›

• Film director Ben Wheatley’s success down to 2000AD, he says

  By John Freeman on July 14, 2016

  

  He’s one of the most prominent independent directors of his generation, with a string of critically-acclaimed movies under his belt, but Ben Wheatley still pegs his success to reading 2000AD as a child. The director of Sightseers, Kill List, A… Read More ›

• Sneak Peek: Titan Comics New “Hard Case Crime” Imprint

  By John Freeman on July 14, 2016 • ( 3 )

  

  Titan Comics is bringing titles from the hardboiled crime novel publisher Hard Case Crime to comics in the form of a new imprint edited by Tom Williams, which will include a slate of noir series from all-star creators. Award-inning imprint Hard… Read More ›

• In Review: Comics Unstripped – An Exhibition of Original Comic Art

  By Colin Noble on July 13, 2016 • ( 1 )

  

  If you happen to find yourself in Kettering over the next two months, I can thoroughly recommend spending a little time to find the Alfred East Art Gallery (part of Kettering Museum), which is hosting the free Comics Unstripped exhibition until… Read More ›

• Kettering hosts new comic exhibition featuring work by Frank Bellamy, Bill Sienkiewicz and Barry Windsor Smith

  By John Freeman on July 13, 2016 • ( 1 )

  

  Kettering, Northamptonshire is currently the location of a free ‘Comics Unstripped!’ exhibition, examining the history of comics and graphic novels and featuring works by artist Frank Bellamy, who lived in the town and includes some examples from his work for the… Read More ›

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