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• Political Cartoon of the Year Awards Vote Closes on Tuesday

  By John Freeman on November 30, 2015

  

  There’s still time to vote for Britain’s annual Political Cartoon of the Year Awards celebrating the UK’s National Newspaper cartoonists, hosted by London-based Ellwood Atfield Gallery. Voting closes on Tuesday 1st December and includes cartoons from a huge range of… Read More ›

• Disney showcases British fashion initiative for Star Wars: The Force Awakens 

  By John Freeman on November 30, 2015

  

  Designers to have created outfits for the charity auction includes Agi & Sam, Bobby Abley, Christopher Raeburn, Claire Barrow and J.W. Anderson.Disney and Lucasfilm have unveiled a British fashion initiative celebrating the imminent arrival of Star Wars: The Force Awakens…. Read More ›

• Public Lending Right set to increase next year after library loans ‘fall’

  By John Freeman on November 30, 2015

  

  Comic creators and authors whose work is offered through libraries will be pleased to hear that Public Lending Right (PLR) will increase next year after The British Library Board proposed that the current 6.66 pence per loan should increase to… Read More ›

• ICv2: Steve Jackson Games Gets ‘Simon’s Cat’

  By John Freeman on November 30, 2015

  

  Steve Jackson Games will release a card game based on YouTube sensation Simon’s Cat, the company announced last week.  The 47 animated Simon’s Cat shorts have a cumulative 680 million views and have spawned books and other merchandise. Source: ICv2:… Read More ›

• Creators @ Thought Bubble 2015: Part 2 – Small Press

  By Jeremy Briggs on November 30, 2015

  

  The ninth annual Thought Bubble Festival took place in Leeds over the week of 9-15 November 2015, however it is the huge two-day comic convention over the weekend of 14-15 November that the vast majority of punters and creators think… Read More ›

• “Seth’s Dominion” screening part of of London International Animation Festival Line Up

  By John Freeman on November 29, 2015

  

  Nestling in the line up for this year’s London International Animation Festival is a screening of Seth’s Dominon, an award-winning film highlighting the work of one of the recent Lakes International Comic Art Festival’s top Canadian guests, Seth, presented by its director Luc… Read More ›

• Awesome Comic Podcast Thought Bubble Special

  By John Freeman on November 27, 2015

  

  Get the sherbets out and It’s the Awesome Comic Podcast‘s first convention special folks! Vince Hunt and Tony Esmond discuss their time at Thought Bubble Festival 2015 (unfortunately Dan couldn’t make it), give shout outs to the lovely people they met… Read More ›

• Awesome Comics Podcast Episode 21: Comics Writer Sam Read

  By John Freeman on November 27, 2015

  

  Who better to join the Awesome Comics Podcast crew for a chin wag than the writer of Exit Generation, Sam Read? Sam talks about how his brilliant SF action book came to be, his route into the world of making comics, the… Read More ›

• New comic launches at Malta Comic Con include Dinoswords and S.T.E.AM. – Island Under Siege

  By John Freeman on November 26, 2015

  

  Next month’s Malta Comic Con will see a number of independent comic launches, including guest Tim Perkins Retro-Collection of The Dinoswords – collecting the 12 issues previously printed in the UK, 1990’s anthology comic, Triffik, stories by Tim and James Hill… Read More ›

• Official Billy Whizz Screenprint Released

  By John Freeman on November 25, 2015

  

     Top screen printer John Patrick Reynolds has just released his latest official Beano screenprint. Billy Whizz, Starts Today. The image is taken from Issue 1139 of The Beano, Billy’s first appearance in May 1964. “I love it,” enthuses John…. Read More ›

• Something for the Weekend: US Comics On Sale from 25th November 2015 – Asterix Found in Comic Shops!

  By John Freeman on November 25, 2015

  

  It’s a fairly quiet week for new comics with a British connection, but don’t panic, because the latest 2000AD has a creepy “Terror Tale” from David Baillie, beautifully drawn by Joshua George for you to enjoy – especially if you’re… Read More ›

• Lancaster University Appoints Tintin Scholar Benoit Peeters As UK’s First Professor Of Graphic Fiction And Comic Art

  By John Freeman on November 25, 2015 • ( 1 )

  

  Lancaster University has appointed renowned French graphic novelist and critic Benoit Peeters as its Visiting Professor in Graphic Fiction and Comic Art, the first ever such appointment in the UK. The news was announced by Professor Simon Guy, Dean of the University’s Faculty of… Read More ›

• Review – ‘Take It As A Compliment’ by Maria Stoian

  By Antony Esmond on November 24, 2015

  

  Created by Maria Stoian Published by Singing Dragon Hardback/Full Colour.  £14.99 Comics can cover all kind of subjects, a fact that I am sure I don’t need to tell you. Consequently, they can instil different feelings in the reader through… Read More ›

• IDW’s Judge Dredd Resumes Next Month with “Mega City Zero”, Dan McDaid on art

  By John Freeman on November 23, 2015

  

  Dan McDaid takes on the art duties on IDW’s new Judge Dredd series next month, in a new ongoing series written by Ulises Fariñas and Erick Freitas. After a bit of a break from their take on Dredd, the US publisher is really pushing out… Read More ›

• Creators @ Thought Bubble 2015 : Part 1 – Artists

  By Jeremy Briggs on November 23, 2015 • ( 1 )

  

  The ninth annual Thought Bubble Festival took place in Leeds over the week of 9-15 November 2015, however it is the huge two day comic convention over the weekend of 14-15 November that the vast majority of punters and creators… Read More ›

• Something For The Weekend: US Comics On Sale from 18th November 2015 – Sound the Klaxon!

  By John Freeman on November 20, 2015

  

  Our weekly list of British creator-skewed new comic releases kicks off with this week’s wraparound cover for 2000AD by Jake Lynch. Dredd at his finest! But the thrills don’t stop there, because we also get a new issue of Judge Dredd Megazine… Read More ›

• Rob Williams heads up 2000AD’s “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly in Purgatory”

  By John Freeman on November 20, 2015

  

  His name is Ichabod and he is a killer. But his death, for die he must, is only the beginning of his story… A bloody, romantic, supernatural meta-Western filtered through the language of Daniel Woodrell and the cinematic imagery of… Read More ›

• More For Malta Comic Con: Italian, British and Greek comic creators join the roster

  By John Freeman on November 20, 2015

  

  Another wave of guests has been revealed for the seventh Malta Comic Con with the announcement by organisers Wicked Comics that creators Pasquale Qualano (Soulfire), Andreas Michaelides (Botch!), Christos Stamboulis (The Lords of Crimson Valley), Gianluca Maconi (Elfes) Luciano Regazzoni (Nathan Never), Grafimated Cartoon… Read More ›

• DC Thomson Bags Rights to “Twirlywoos”

  By John Freeman on November 20, 2015

  

  DC Thomson has signed a deal with DHX Brands to publish a Twirlywoos next year, based on the hit CBeebies preschool show devised and produced by Ragdoll Productions’ Anne Wood, whose creator credits also include Rosie and Jim and Teletubbies, with… Read More ›

• Creating Nightmares: An interview with “Call of Duty” Lead Writer Craig Houston

  By John Freeman on November 20, 2015 • ( 1 )

  

  A chat with Craig Houston, a Scottish writer, artist and musician with over 25 years experience in the video games and comic book industries…

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