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• Comicraft Turns Japanese! (with an ambitious new font project, that is…)

  By John Freeman on November 18, 2016

  

  Comicraft, the comic-book industry’s leading lettering and design company for over 20 years, is launching a Kickstarter to fund the creation of the first comic book-style lettering font for the Japanese writing system. What started as Wildwords Manga, a limited font… Read More ›

• In Review: Ron Turner’s Space Ace Volume 7

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

  

  The latest issue of Ron Turner’s Space Ace (Volume 7) is out now, featuring three wonderfully retconned stories by the late comics artist (and writer) perhaps best known for his work on “The Daleks” strip for TV Century 21, but… Read More ›

• Goulash Grenadiers, Russians on the run – and a new Commando editor!

  By John Freeman on November 17, 2016 • ( 3 )

  

  Here’s the lowdown on the latest issues of DC Thomson’s war comic, Commando (Issues 4967-4970), on sale now in all good newsagents and various digital platforms. This month sees a new editor in charge of the title – Kirsten Murray,… Read More ›

• New “Custom Lettering” in the works from top comics artist and designer Rian Hughes

  By John Freeman on November 17, 2016

  

  Coming soon from London-based Korero Press is a new book from top artist and designer Rian Hughes, Custom Lettering of the 20s & ‘30s. The new book is a celebration of the beautiful and stylistically diverse hand-drawn lettering that dominated… Read More ›

• DC Thomson’s EPIC! magazine gets a makeover, new strips launched 

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

  

  Beano publishers DC Thomson have given their EPIC! magazine a spruce up, introducing new strips by VIZ’s Alex Collier, Steve Bright and Lew Stringer – and reviving an old Dandy strip by Jamie Smart. Aimed at 7-10s, the 48-page magazine… Read More ›

• Exclusive: Rebellion returns John Wagner’s One-Eyed Jack to duty in first Fleetway archive collection

  By John Freeman on November 16, 2016

  

  As Judge Dredd prepares to celebrate his 40th birthday, downthetubes can exclusively reveal his publishers Rebellion are preparing to fire his ultra-violent origins from the 1970s and back into readers’ hands for the first time. The root of Britain’s biggest… Read More ›

• Feel the Power! New Doctor Who Magazine debuts, Steve Dillon remembered

  By John Freeman on November 16, 2016

  

  The next issue of Doctor Who Magazine (Issue 505) is published in the UK tomorrow (Thursday 17th November). Alongside a cover feature paying tribute to the Second Doctor, Patrick Troughton (accompanied with rare photographs), there’s an affectionate tribute to artist… Read More ›

• “Rourke of the Radlands” returns after years in the wilderness

  By John Freeman on November 15, 2016

  

  The SF fantasy character “Rourke of the Radlands” co-created by myself, John Freeman, and Wonder Woman artist Liam Sharp, first published in the largely creator-owned Marvel UK title STRIP, is about to get a new lease of life in the digital anthology… Read More ›

• Lakes international Comic Art Festival announces 2016 online art auction plans

  By John Freeman on November 14, 2016

  

  The Lakes International Comic Art Festival has announced plans for an online fund-raising art auction, which will begin on 23rd November 2016. Full details of the 2016 on-line auction have yet to be announced, but included will be original artwork… Read More ›

• Sneak Peek – Improper Books “Porcelain: Ivory Tower” by Benjamin Read and Chris Wildgoose

  By John Freeman on November 13, 2016

  

  Ace British independent publisher Improper Books released a free preview of Benjamin Read and Chris Wildgoose‘ upcoming Porcelain: Ivory Tower at Thought Bubble earlier this month, and supporting comic shops across the UK are giving them out too. They’ve kindly… Read More ›

• Valerian: Official Trailer Debuts: A Cinebook Checklist to the Graphic Novel Series

  By John Freeman on November 11, 2016

  

  A checklist of Valerian and Laureline albums

• Psycho Gran is back, putting the old skool into vigilante justice!

  By John Freeman on November 11, 2016

  

  Titan Comics have just released the second issue of David Leach‘s hilarious comic, Psycho Gran, on digital platforms. (For some reason, they don’t yet want to get physical with her – I can’t think why!) Psycho Gran #2 features the… Read More ›

• New Spaceship Away features Dave Gibbons interview, highlights new audio adventures alongside new strips

  By John Freeman on November 10, 2016

  

  The latest issues of the Dan Dare-inspired magazine Spaceship Away – Issue 40 – has just been released, the glossy A4 magazine featuring not one but two all-new “classic” Dan Dare comic strips from Tim Booth. Along with the final… Read More ›

• In Review: The Marionette Unit

  By John Freeman on November 10, 2016 • ( 1 )

  

  Created by Azhur Saleem and James Boyle, illustrated by  Warwick Johnson-Cadwell  Out: Now The Book: How far would you go in search of a missing loved one? Could you infiltrate a hellish Victorian workhouse where steam-powered engines control your body? If so, then enter… Read More ›

• Something For the Weekend – Judge Dredd and a deadly Mummy in This Week’s New Comics in the UK (w/c 7th October 2016)

  By John Freeman on November 9, 2016

  

  Here’s this week’s round up of new comics in British newsagents and comic shops skewed, as ever to highlighting British creators and publishers. After positive feedback to the plugs we included for some great indie titles last week ahead of… Read More ›

• Royal Wedding Gate Crashers and a Talking Horse? Yep, Doctor Who Adventures is back!

  By John Freeman on November 9, 2016 • ( 1 )

  

  Trust Doctor Who Adventures to have a talking horse as the Doctor’s current companion… it’s surely the wackiest thing since Frobisher the Penguin arrived in sister title Doctor Who Magazine! But what else is lurking between the covers of the… Read More ›

• It’s Hammer Time for Titan Comics as “The Mummy” debuts, and it’s a scream!

  By John Freeman on November 9, 2016 • ( 1 )

  

  Today sees the launch of The Mummy, the first of several Hammer Films-inspired comic series from Titan Comics, written by the legendary Peter Milligan and drawn by Ronilson Freire, coloured by Ming Sen and lettered by Simon Bowland. The line will see the publication of brand-new… Read More ›

• The Really Heavy Greatcoat Year in Review 2016 Part One

  By John Freeman on November 9, 2016 • ( 1 )

  

  Nick Miller, co-creator of The Really Heavy Greatcoat cartoon with me, which we wrote on a regular basis for some years, delivers the first part of this year’s “Year in Review” early, in response to the US election results… Nick… Read More ›

• Oxford’s TORCH to host talk by Roger Sabin on the Origins of Comics Criticism

  By John Freeman on November 9, 2016

  

  TORCH, Oxford’s Research Centre in the Humanities third seminar of the term will take place tomorrow, Thursday 10th November 2016, at 5.15pm and will feature a talk from Roger Sabin, Professor of Popular Culture at Central Saint Martins in London, on “The… Read More ›

• Comic Creators early Twitter reaction to the 2016 US Election Result

  By John Freeman on November 9, 2016

  

  So, Donald Trump will be the next US President. I think A-Force and Hawkeye comic writer Kelly Thompson pretty much nailed the mood of many comic creators on my Twitter feed this morning with a retweet of a cartoon by David Rowe,… Read More ›

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