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• British Comics Past: Super Naturals

  By Ian Wheeler on 7 February 2017

  

  Super Naturals must surely rank as one of the shortest-lived British comics of all time, with just nine regular issues to its name. Ian Wheeler looks back, with add reporting by John Freeman… This post was last updated on Saturday… Read More ›

• One for 2000AD and Dan Dare fans: Let’s Go To Mars! Game Launched

  By John Freeman on 7 February 2017

  

  A graphic adventure game focusing on the exploration of Mars has been launched by the Institute of Astrophysics of Andalusia, which should appeal to fans of most SF comics or books – of all ages. The app, Let’s Go To… Read More ›

• “Jeff Hawke Junior” Collected At Last by Jeff Hawke Fan Club

  By John Freeman on 7 February 2017 • ( 1 )

  

  Just published by the Jeff Hawke Fan Club and available to members is this collection of Jeff Hawke Jnr., containing all the Jeff Hawke strips from Junior Express weekly. The 128 page book is the same large format as the Club’s COSMOS magazine… Read More ›

• Exclusive Extract – Read Em and Weep Book One: Serial Killer by Pat Mills and Kevin O’Neill

  By John Freeman on 7 February 2017 • ( 1 )

  

  With the 40th Anniversary 2000AD celebration this weekend in London, we’re delighted to bring you this extract from Pat Mills and Kevin O’Neill’s new novel, published by Millsverse Books, set in the wold of 1970s comics publishing…  Be advised this extract is… Read More ›

• John Wagner to ‘revive’ the Dark Judges with new story ‘Dominion’ for Judge Dredd Megazine

  By John Freeman on 7 February 2017

  

  Writer John Wagner (Judge Dredd, A History of Violence) and Nick Percival (Clive Barker’s Hellraiser) are to follow up 2015’s chilling Dark Justice with a new story featuring the infamous Dark Judges. An Alien-style race-against-time Dark Justice saw undead alien… Read More ›

• Britannia and The Mummy writer Peter Milligan signing at Forbidden Planet Newcastle opening day

  By John Freeman on 7 February 2017

  

  As part of the launch day celebrations for Forbidden Planet‘s brand new Newcastle Megastore, writer Peter Milligan will be signing copies of Britannia, collecting Britannia #1 – 4, on Saturday 18th February 2017. In Peter Milligan’s Britannia, published by Valiant Entertainment,… Read More ›

• Andy Holden’s exhibition “As Speed Increases Objects Can Be In Several Places At Once” now at Lancaster University

  By John Freeman on 6 February 2017

  

  The result of five years’ work, Andy Holden’s Laws of Motion in a Cartoon Landscape, now showing at Lancaster Univerity‘s Peter Scott Gallery, presents a fully realised animated theory proposing the world is now best understood as a cartoon. Part-lecture, part-documentary,… Read More ›

• From The Trenches: A Guest’s Eye View of True Believers Comic Festival 2017 by Jessica Martin

  By John Freeman on 5 February 2017 • ( 1 )

  

  Comic creator Jessica Martin, one of many talents at the event, reveals how she’s now a “True Believer” after her trip to Cheltenham this weekend…  On Saturday 5th February, I was a guest at the True Believers Comic Festival in… Read More ›

• October date for 2017 Nottingham Comic Convention announced 

  By John Freeman on 5 February 2017

  

  The team behind Nottingham Comic Convention have just announced this year’s event will take place on Saturday 14th October – and released their promotional poster by Roger Langridge, a previous guest. “We have begun the process that is the long,… Read More ›

• Marvel UK’s short-lived war comic “Fury” recalled

  By John Freeman on 5 February 2017

  

  Here’s a small selection of some of the dramatic covers for British Marvel’s short-lived war comic Fury, which ran for 25 issues back in 1977. The Boys Adventure Blog is spotlighting the title as part of its celebration of the work… Read More ›

• Lakes International Comic Art Festival wins two culture awards

  By John Freeman on 4 February 2017

  

  The Lakes International Comic Art Festival won two awards at the Cumbria Life Culture Awards 2017 this weekend. Core team members Aileen McEoy and Carole Tait were among those on hand to collect the awards for Festival of the Year and another… Read More ›

• Snapshots in Time: A Teddy Girl from 1955 – and more importantly, some very cheap comics!

  By John Freeman on 4 February 2017

  

  Oxford’s North Wall Art Centre is currently hosting Ken Russell’s Teddy Girls & Boys – an exhibition of 50 photographs of teddy girls and boys, taken by ground-breaking film director, Ken Russell, brought together for the first time. One of… Read More ›

• New Vampirella series from Paul Cornell and Jimmy Broxton debuts

  By John Freeman on 3 February 2017

  

  On sale now in all good comic shops from Dynamite Entertainment is Vampirella #0, beginning the new series from Paul Cornell and Jimmy Broxton. Priced at only 25 cents in the US, and 20p in the UK, it’s also available… Read More ›

• Web Finds: Essential Sequential, delivering the ABC Comics Project to long-term unemployed

  By John Freeman on 2 February 2017

  

  Essential Sequential is a not-for-profit organisation created to provide creative workshops and activities for mainstream and hard-to-reach individuals of virtually all ages and abilities – and they’re working on a number of projects in the works, including the ABC Comic Project, which… Read More ›

• Hasbro awards Signature Publishing ‘Partner of the Year’

  By John Freeman on 2 February 2017

  

  With over 60 Hasbro licensees, including some of the biggest toy, apparel, stationery and publishing companies across the UK and Europe in the running for the award, Signature Publishing says it is delighted to be awarded the honour of the toy… Read More ›

• Panel Borders: Medical Emergencies features interviews with Karen Berger and the Mad Robot Comics team

  By John Freeman on 1 February 2017

  

  The monthly radio show about comics and graphic novels is back tonight. In Panel Borders: Medical Emergencies, Alex Fitch talks to two teams of creators who use knowledge of medical emergencies to inform sci-fi and fantasy titles. At Cartoon County, Brighton, Alex… Read More ›

• Captain America and Donald Trump cross swords (or shields) – in Oxford, courtesy of TORCH

  By John Freeman on 1 February 2017

  

  Oxford’s TORCH Comics and Graphic Novels: The Politics of Form network are hosting an event on ‘Trump in the Age of Captain America/ Captain America in the Age of Trump‘ with Jason Dittmer from the University College London tomorrow night. Jason Dittmer is the… Read More ›

• Sneak Peek: Mike Mignola and Christoper Golden’s Baltimore: The Red Kingdom

  By John Freeman on 1 February 2017

  

  Mike Mignola, the legendary creator of Hellboy and New York Times bestselling novelist Christopher Golden will reunite for the epic conclusion to their comic Baltimore with Baltimore: The Red Kingdom, a five part comic book series from Dark Horse Comics co-written by… Read More ›

• Jim Alexander and Will Pickering’s SF project “Savant” lands in Dark Horse Presents

  By John Freeman on 1 February 2017

  

  Savant, a comic strip originally published by British small-press publisher Planet Jimbot, is to be serialised from March onwards in multi-Eisner award-winning Dark Horse Presents. Introducing Lode from the planet Savant, having gone walkabout around the universe, she chooses to… Read More ›

• Dark Horse Comics announces “Lead Poisoning: The Pencil Art of Geof Darrow”

  By John Freeman on 1 February 2017

  

  Geof Darrow’s slick, precise inks and stunning detail have amazed comics fans for decades, from his early work with Moebius to Hard Boiled, his first collaboration with Frank Miller, to the overwhelming success of his current series, The Shaolin Cowboy…. Read More ›

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