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• 2000AD: The Ultimate Collection Part Work from Hachette road tested

  By John Freeman on 6 March 2017

  

  Specialist part work publisher Hachette have launched a web site for a 2000AD part work collection – currently being road tested in parts of the UK to see if there is enough demand for a full rollout. Hachette already publish… Read More ›

• 2000AD’s 40th Anniversary Special Gets Reprinted with two new covers after sell-out success in comic stores

  By John Freeman on 6 March 2017

  

  2000AD’s landmark 40th anniversary special edition is to go to a second printing after selling out in newsagents and comic shops across the UK after its release last week. Celebrating four decades of 2000 AD’s cutting edge and globally influenced… Read More ›

• Aces Weekly artist Mal Earl to host Digital Art event in Cumbria

  By John Freeman on 6 March 2017

  

  Top artist and Aces Weekly artist Mal Earl is making a special appearance in his home county of Cumbria later this week, to talk about digital art and his many projects, ad a guest of the Egremont-based Florence Art Group. Over the… Read More ›

• Shelly Bond To Launch Creator-Owned Imprint At IDW Publishing

  By John Freeman on 6 March 2017

  

  US publisher IDW Publishing has announced the arrival of Shelly Bond to its editorial ranks and the launch of its creator-owned imprint, Black Crown. One of the most respected and admired editors among her peers, Bond previously served as VP-Executive Editor of… Read More ›

• Freeway Fighter #1 signing at Forbidden Planet London in May, Jim Burns, “Fan Appreciation” variant covers revealed

  By John Freeman on 6 March 2017

  

  Join an all-star Fighting Fantasy Gamebooks line-up at the Forbidden Planet London Megastore, launching Titan Comics’ Ian Livingstone’s Freeway Fighter: The Comic on Saturday 20th May 2017 from 1.00 – 2.00pm. At the special signing will be Gamesmaster Ian Livingstone,… Read More ›

• Wonder Woman artist Liam Sharp gets home city exhibition in Derby

  By John Freeman on 5 March 2017

  

  Current Wonder Woman artist Liam Sharp is to be honoured in his home city of Derby with a special exhibition documenting his comics career later this year. Currently living and working in California, Derby-born writer and artist Liam Sharp is… Read More ›

• Watch: Kicking it Old School – Talking British Comics at 2000AD’s 40 Years of Thrill-Power Festival

  By John Freeman on 5 March 2017

  

  2000AD has posted a video of the panel called “Kicking it Old School” from last month’s 40 Years of Thrill-Power Festival (our feature on the event is here). Chaired by myself, the panel featured John Higgins, Ian Kennedy and Jesus… Read More ›

• In Review: The Art of Reginald Heade

  By Richard Sheaf on 4 March 2017 • ( 1 )

  

  By Stephen James Walker Published by Telos Given the all-ages appeal of downthetubes, how best to review The Art of Reginald Heade? This artist’s impossible women with their hourglass figures and dresses so flimsy that they defy disbelief should be… Read More ›

• Sneak Peek: Sink Your Teeth into Comic Book Slumber Party’s new title, Deep Space Canine

  By John Freeman on 4 March 2017

  

  Available to order now from Avery Hill Publishing is the British Comic Award nominated series, Deep Space Canine, produced in partnership with comics powerhouse Comic Book Slumber Party. Life in space can be tough – and when you’re balancing a hydro-herb habit, mysterious… Read More ›

• Awesome Comics Podcast Catch-Up! Listen to interviews with Jay Gunn, Susie Gander and more!

  By John Freeman on 4 March 2017

  

  OK, I admit it – I’m well behind on the terrific Awesome Comics Podcast now. Again. So behind, key contributor and fellow DTT contributor Tony Esmond has threatened to get his cane out, and I’m not chancing that. So without further ado,… Read More ›

• Lancaster Comics Day 2017: Full Line Up Announced (it will be more than a Roy of the Rovers moment!)

  By John Freeman on 4 March 2017

  

  This year’s Lancaster Comics Day will be bringing some “Roy of the Rovers” moments to Lancaster in June, when special comic guests artist David Sque and writer and editor Barrie Tomlinson recall their time working on Britain’s best-loved and most… Read More ›

• Doctor Who Adventures offers a Mutants Meets Harry Potter Mash-Up

  By John Freeman on 4 March 2017

  

  The latest issue of Doctor Who Adventures (Issue 22) is on sale now, with strip writer Andrew Cartmel delivering a story poking affectionate fun at Marvel’s mutants, Harry Potter and, possibly, Bunty’s “The Four Marys” for good measure. A talking… Read More ›

• 5000 Not Out: DC Thomson’s Commando comic celebrates a landmark issue next week

  By John Freeman on 3 March 2017 • ( 1 )

  

  DC Thomson’s Commando comic celebrates its 5000th issue next week with an all-new story from writer Ferg Handley with strip art from long-standing artist on the title, Carlos Pino and – who else? – a cover from Ian Kennedy, whose memorable… Read More ›

• Comic Strip Revolution exhibition opens soon in Belgium

  By John Freeman on 3 March 2017

  

  A “Comic Strip Revolution” exhibition at La Boverie, Liege, Belgium will present art from two game-changing French bande dessinée magazines, Métal Hurlant and (A SUIVRE) from 17th March to 11th June 2017. Showing more than 300 original drawings from French, Belgian,… Read More ›

• Lakes International Comic Art Festival celebrates Will Eisner with competition, comic and exclusive exhibition

  By John Freeman on 2 March 2017

  

  Recognising the work of ground-breaking American comic creator Will Eisner, creator of “The Spirit”, the  Lakes International Comic Art Festival is pleased to announce not one but three celebratory projects to mark his incredible contribution to the development of the comics form – a competition… Read More ›

• Faceache, Ken Reid’s best-loved comic character and Leopard of Lime Street returns in new Rebellion collections

  By John Freeman on 2 March 2017 • ( 1 )

  

  Rebellion, publishers of 2000AD and Judge Dredd Megazine, have announced full details of their first new collections featuring all-time classics of British comics from the 1970s and ‘80s. And what a terrific selection from their recently-expanded cache of characters it… Read More ›

• Vaughn Bode’s Cobalt 60 returns in New Augmented Reality Graphic Novel by his son

  By John Freeman on 2 March 2017

  

  Heavy Metal and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles artist Mark Bodé is to launch a new graphic novel, based on one of his father Vaughn Bodé’s earliest works – the ground-breaking Cobalt 60. In the late 1960s, Vaughn Bodé was one of… Read More ›

• Britain’s second city set to go comics crazy in June as Birmingham Comics Festival returns for third year 

  By John Freeman on 26 February 2017

  

  The Birmingham Comics Festival will be celebrating its third consecutive year of activity across the second city this June, with a weekend-long convention the culmination of a month of planned events. A city-wide series of comics-related events, large and small,… Read More ›

• Sneak Peek: Doctor Who – The Ninth Doctor #10

  By John Freeman on 25 February 2017

  

  DOCTOR WHO: NINTH DOCTOR #10 Writer: Cavan Scott Artist: Adriana Melo Publisher: Titan Comics FC – 32pp – $3.99 – On sale: 1st March 2017 in all good comic shops and various digital platforms The Ninth Doctor, Rose, and Jack… Read More ›

• Nick Abadzis talks Doctor Who for latest Panel to Panel podcast

  By John Freeman on 23 February 2017

  

  Episode 72 of of Jeremy Bement‘s Doctor Who: Panel to Panel is up and features an interview with writer-artist Nick Abadzis. Nick, whose many credits also include Laika and Cora’s Breakfast, has been writing the adventures of the Tenth Doctor since… Read More ›

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